PILGRIM NY was founded in 2006 by Brian Bennett and Richard Ives. PILGRIM NY offers women's clothing incorporating high end luxurious fabrics designed and produced in New York City by in house designer Richard Ives and other NYC designers as well as designer vintage apparel and jewelry/accessories. PILGRIM NY has one of the largest selections of authentic mint and unused Chanel handbags, shoulder bags and totes as well as a large selection of Chanel vintage jewelry and designer vintage jewelry and prototypes from Paris design houses such as YSL, Lanvin, LaCroix, Dior, Ungaro, Celine, Rykiel, Krizia, Valentino, Claude Montana, Guy
Laroche, Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, Dominique Aurientis, Zoe Coste and others. With a concentration on high end designer costume jewelry that ranges from Georgian, Victorian/Edwardian, to Art Deco, Art Nouveau and NYC jewelry designers such as Les Bernard, Larry VRBA, Miriam Haskell, Frank Hess, Hattie Carnegie, Hobe et Cie, Monet, Napier, Swovboda, Cardoro, Castlecliff, Ben Amun, Gerard Yosca, and Emanuel Ciner. With an innate eye and admiration for vintage, PILGRIM offers an edited collection of designer’s work from the 50’s and 90’s to include Lanvin, Cacharel, Chanel, YSL, and Ungaro as well as Avant Garde Japanese designers such as Junya Watanabe, Commes des Garcons, Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake. Jewelry and accessories are essential to the PILGRIM aesthetic. Black-washed floors provide the perfect backdrop for the eclectic mix of 20th century abstract paintings, mid-century vases and pottery from Scandinavia, the USA and decorative Korean pottery from the 4th century. A selection of soy based candles created exclusively for PILGRIM NY and made in the USA reflect the mood of the collection and are often found burning around the store.
