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_ Carolee

WEST Van will always
be home for Frances
Smily but New York is
where she’s most at
home. .

It’s where the 41-year-
old lingerie designer has
lived for the past 13 years,
where she met and married
her husband and business
partner Louis Atlas and
raised their two daughters,
Zoe and Olivia. It’s also
where she designs and man-
ufactures her Clio line of
lingerie. It’s sold in bou-
tiques across the United
States and featured in the
pages of Vogue, Vanity Fair
and Cosmopolitan maga-
zines,

Smily knows Manhattan
well. Recently she and Atlas
purchased and renovated a
two-level loft in newly
trendy Chelsea, furnishing it

. almost exclusively with flea-

market finds.
. The News caught up
with the designer, whose
mother is portrait artist
Elizabeth Smily, while home
for a visit and asked the
fashionable Manhattanite to
offer readers an insider’s
guide to style in the big city.
ere are Smily’s picks:
Shop The Annex, a giant
outdoor flea market at Sixth

~ Avenue and 26th Street for

antique furniture, clothing,
jewelry and toys. It’s open

every Saturday and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m...

’ “We did our whole apart-
ment with great stuff we
found there,” says the
designer. Smily’s flea-market
finds include a crystal and
bronze chandelier purchased

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for just $75, antique wall
sconces at $10 apiece and a
Victorian maple-wood man-
de for $400.

_ If you're into decorating,
stop into ABC Carpet &
Home, 888 Broadway at E.
19th Street.

“Everything’s wild; the
prices are insar.c,” says Smily
of the worle.”. largest carpet
and rug stoic. On its seven
floors you'll find antiques
and fine reproduction furni-
ture, bed and bath linens
and fancy home-decor items.
ABC’s street-level restaurant
is good, too.

Just around the corner is
Fish’s Eddy, a great place
to find curios like old hotel
china and other bits of
Americana.

For good food cheap,
Smily heads to La Tatsa de

- Oro (The Golden Cup) on

8th Avenue at 15th Street.
At this Spanish bodega you
can order an authentic
Spanish dish with ycliow rice
and black beans, a tart and
Spanish coffee for just $7.
Money’s not a problem?
Dine at Cafe des Artistes
on W. 67th Avenue near
Lincoln Centre. (Reserve a
table before you fly out —

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s
60-inch faux pearl necklace
and pavé drop carrings ar the
Sotheby’s auction of the style
icon’s estate in April 1996.
Estimated value: $400-$500

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tables book weeks in
advance). It’s where Smily
and Atlas were engaged.
The romantic setting and
fine French cuisine are leg-
endary.

For cakes and confec-
tions, check out the
Cupcake Cafe at 9th
Avenue and 39th Street,
where fashionable
Manhattanites buy their
“great gooey” birthday
cakes.”

To work off those extra
pounds, urban dwellers head
to the Chelsea Piers in
Lower Manhattan at 23rd
Street. It’s a huge sports
complex with skating rinks,
swimming pools and gymna-
siums where you can golf,
rollerblade and rock climb
year round. Smily likes to
take her girls, age six and
three, there to figure skate
in the summer.

Bargain hounds will want
to shop Daffy’s, a discount
clothing store near Macy’s
on 5th Avenue. It’s great for
children’s clothing, lingerie
and menswear. It's where
Smily’s husband scooped up
a cashmere overcoat for $99
and Smily sells her samples.

For more designers” sam-
ples, go to the garment dis-
trict. Stroll 7th Avenue
between 36th and 40th and
you'll spot the notices for
sample sales.

Smily’s favorite boutique
is La Petite Coquette on
University Place, a “wonder-
ful lingerie store with
cupids, a chandelier” and
over-the-top decor. Be fore-
warned: shop keeper
Rebecca will ask your astro-
logical sign.

(U.S.). Carolee’s purchasing

price: $81,000.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17:

Carol Claffey’s seasonal fash- ©

ion show has outgrown the
intimate setting of the
Vancouver designer’s South
Granville boutique. Claffey
will present her fall collection
7:30 p.m. at the Armoury,
Burrard and Ist Ave. in
Vancouver. Tickets are $20
with proceeds to support
breast cancer research at the
B.C. Cancer Agency. For tick-
ets or information, call the
boutique at 731-6828.
-— Compiled by
Layne Christensen

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