That's where you'll find Barneys, the high-fashion store that turned its back on its downtown roots a few years ago to relocate here.

It includes many that will sell at discount prices, a handful of high-fashion stores selling relatively expensive women's clothing and the rest in medium-price ranges.

Charivari, which filed for bankruptcy in 1997, was the first high-fashion store on the Upper West Side.

Like the nearby avenue Montaigne, the street has been consistently dedicated, throughout its length, to high-fashion stores and other exclusive establishments.

As times changed, we made an effort to get high-fashion stores, and a momentum developed.

Though you can't (yet) buy such boots at high-fashion stores like Charivari, you may see them on some of the hipper salesmen there.

And now that visual effect is about to be echoed by the high-fashion stores one block south.

Which is nice to have in a high-fashion store.

"Lower Broadway has come to look so much like a regional mall that the high-fashion stores really prefer the side streets," she said.

In 1977, Henri Bendel became the first high-fashion store to bring potpourri out of the closet and bath shops and into its own boutique.