Parsons students meld history and fashion into a design for a shift. The finished product presents a visual interpretation of SoHo from the point of view of designers who were all born after the transformation of SoHo from a community of artists to a retail hub—blank slates in a way, in that they never experienced SoHo as anything but the home of Kanye and Nine West.

A brief history of the area of Manhattan that is now called SoHo from Collect Pond in the 1700s through the present.

I recently sat down with Daniel Himmelfarb, who opened Jamie Cavas in 1972 when he was 25 years old, at Housing Works Bookstore to talk about his shop.