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Famed Charleston boutique Hampden Clothing\u00a0is in NYC\u00a0this week for a trunk show\u00a0of its top designer brands,\u00a0like J.W. Anderson, Alexander Wang,\u00a0Proenza Schouler\u2026the list goes on.\u00a0Owner Stacy Smallwood<\/strong>\u00a0fills us in on what\u2019s new.<\/em><\/p>\n What brings you to New York? We\u2019re hearing so much about Charleston these days\u2014from the restaurants to the shopping to the beach. How do you explain all the buzz surrounding the city? Between Hampden and JAMES, your accessory store, you\u2019ve got the fashion scene in Charleston on lockdown. How do you plan to grow your footprint? Are you getting a lot of traffic from all around the country because of the\u00a0built-out e-commerce operation? You named the store after your great-great-grandfather,\u00a0<\/strong>James Hampden Small. What was he like? When you meet with designers to do your buy, what are you looking for? Which looks appeal to your customer? Your J.W. Anderson buy is, in a word, sick. How\u2019s he selling for you? Which pieces in particular are your customers drawn to? Which other new brands are you really excited about? If we can only buy three things for Fall \u201916, what would they be? Famed Charleston boutique Hampden Clothing\u00a0is in NYC\u00a0this week for a trunk show\u00a0of its top designer brands,\u00a0like J.W. Anderson, Alexander Wang,\u00a0Proenza Schouler\u2026the list goes on.\u00a0Owner Stacy Smallwood\u00a0fills us in on what\u2019s new. What brings you to New York? One of my fabulous clients from New York also owns a home on Sullivan\u2019s Island and kindly asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Clothing-Style-th2acnc4u4k.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[358,59,58,359,360,308,361],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clothing-style","tag-charleston","tag-clothing-style","tag-clothing-tips","tag-hampden-clothing","tag-jw-anderson","tag-slider","tag-stacy-smallwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>One of my fabulous clients from New York also owns a home on Sullivan\u2019s Island and kindly asked me to come do a trunk show in her home for a group of her friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I\u2019ve seen the city change so much in the past 10 years since I opened Hampden. The culinary scene has certainly been a driver of that change with restaurants like FIG, Chez Nous, and Cannon Green. But when people come to town, they discover that this city has so much to offer including charming cobblestone streets, amazing architecture, cute hotels, and it\u2019s only an 1.5\u00a0hours for NY direct. It\u2019s a warm, welcoming city that makes you feel nostalgic for smaller towns and when life was simplistic and slower.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>At the beginning of October this year, I relaunched my website and\u00a0posted every single piece we have in the store! It is entirely e-commerce and reflects the most current inventory by updating every 15 minutes. We post weekly outfit inspirations under our looks section and highlight our newest arrivals daily. In honor of our 10 year anniversary, I\u2019m planning a huge renovation to my 4,200 square feet to reflect the new designer assortment I carry and utilize more of the space in this historic building from 1875.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Yes! We have clients that visited Charleston and fallen in love with our unique assortment \u00a0who stay in touch with all of our new arrivals. With our new website we are also finding so many great new clients discovering us on a daily basis. It\u2019s so exciting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>He\u00a0came from Scotland to Charleston. He worked in shipping and insurance with Lloyds insurance and helped found the Charleston Yacht Club. I\u2019m grateful to have been given part of his name as my own\u2014Stacy Hampden Small Smallwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CF6C979B-65B0-40D4-A1E6-5F6F244F2AC7.jpg\")
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\n<\/strong>We are always looking for unique tops and dresses, as that is what women truly wear on a daily basis. Overall, I\u2019m looking for a unique voice, a strong identity from a brand, and something that makes me have an emotional reaction.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>J.W. Anderson is a brand I personally love and believe in and take risk on because of that belief. I think it is important to not only have in store what I know I can sell but also ones that I don\u2019t, so when you come to Hampden you can have fun pushing the envelope. The Ruffle Sleeve Zipper top is our best-seller so far!<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m so excited about Monse! It is so unique\u00a0and fashion-forward, yet still wearable. If there is one designer for Spring \u201917 that I think you need to know, then I\u2019d say it would be them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>A J.W. Anderson handbag,\u00a0the Isabel Marant boots, and the Acne shearling jacket.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/329269A4-4AF1-43DA-A85A-825B21A5F8C5.jpg\")
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