HIGH ABOVE Canal Street in New York's Chinatown neighbourhood, the early spring sun is shining through antique lace curtains. Emily Adams Bode Aujla is sitting on a velvet-cushioned couch in her former apartment, which she and her husband, the interior designer Aaron Aujla, recently vacated.
The airy loft is now the latest expansion of the Bode-verse: the brand's new fine-tailoring studio, where clients can get fitted for suiting and other custom garments. This is in addition to Bode's NYC flagship store around the corner and a smaller tailor shop next door; The River, a Bode-fied bar Emily and Aaron co-own close by; a 3,000-square-foot shop in Los Angeles; and several planned retail stores elsewhere in the world. The stores all stock Bode's rapidly expanding and evolving ready-to-wear collections, which are richly considered explorations of material culture, guided by Emily's family histories. Hanging alongside are the brand's famous one-off pieces that reveal fecund seams of bygone craft, in the form of shirts made of hand-mended French linens and coats cut from mid-century plaid blankets.
Emily and Aaron lived in this apartment for nearly five years before opting to move to a quiet block in the West Village. The hand-operated elevator in the building began to feel impractical with a baby on the way. But the renovations on the new place aren't done, and while Aaron visits clothing factories in India, Emily is staying in a hotel. "Couldn't I just sleep here?" Emily, 34, says of the old place. "Because it does still feel like my apartment."
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