The founder of Outdoor Voices (OV) has become fitness fashion’s cool kid, and she’s got look books to shoot, a buzzy spring collection with French it-brand A.P.C. to put the finishing touches on, and a new Manhattan store to fill with her Millennial-approved merch, as she prepares to open her burgeoning lifestyle brand’s first New York City location on November 15.
Haney founded the company in 2013, and was knighted early on by J.Crew for her style and ethos. She runs in circles like Sweetgreen, Man Repeller (a collaborator), and the aforementioned A.P.C., which she also recently wooed into becoming a big investor. The recent $7 million infusion means Haney can create a store to showcase the lifestyle OV advocates—“approaching activity with moderation, humour and delight.” OV has a store in Austin, its “spiritual home where people really live the brand.” Performance-oriented Manhattanites, she rightly suggests, still need a little help in that regard.
So, on Lafayette and Broome in Soho, around the corner from the company’s HQ (a Canal Street loft), the new store will be a several-month pop-up that Haney’s calling a retail installation. (It runs through January 15.)
And hanging out is a big part of the mission. “Community is really what having a physical space allows us to do,” Haney says, adding that she’s already scheduled a calendar of workout happy hours, yoga classes with Sky Ting, and activities with the “girls of Dannijo” and Glossier.
“We want to have a place for our jogging club to start and end from, and our dog walks,” says Haney. “They’re kind of the perfect example of who we are as a brand.” —Melisse Gelula
199 Lafayette, at Broome, Soho, New York, NY, 10012, www.outdoorvoices.com
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(Photos: Outdoor Voices)