Can the Billionaires Save East Hampton’s Main Street?
By: Kim Velsey | Published: 2025-06-25 11:00:00 | Source: www.curbed.com
At the Prada store on East Hampton’s Newtown Lane at 1 p.m. on a Friday.
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux for New York Magazine
When Ralph Lauren opened its fourth East Hampton store in 2008, a lot of locals wondered — how many Ralph Lauren stores did one small village really need? But these days, its local presence, now dialed back to three stores, seems downright quaint considering what has opened in the village since: Gucci, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Chanel, Loewe, Zegna, Manolo Blahnik, Cartier, Loro Piana. A Rolex is opening this year in the building where Chanel spent the past three summers.
Luxury shops have…
