T Magazine: On Capri, a Chic New Shop Takes a Stand Against Sameness

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Most of the items at Cabana were sourced or designed specifically for the store.Credit

"This whole business was against mass prestige," explains Helen White in the intimate space of Cabana, her newly opened shop on Capri. In a world in which luxury is becoming ubiquitous and traveling to Asia lands you in the same shops you'd find on Madison Avenue, she is indeed taking a position. Cabana is unique: almost everything in its edited collection of objects and clothes for resort life is not available anywhere else. Many items, from cutlery (bamboo-handled knives emblazoned with the store's name) to beach bags, are sourced and designed by White and custom-made for the store.

White, a mother of two who lives in London but has a house here, is originally from New York. She knows style (and hard work) from her years at Vogue as one of Anna Wintour's assistants and a fashion writing stint at Harper's Bazaar. Word of her unusual wares seems to have spread among the summer visitors to Capri, both fashionable and eminent; when I was there last month, a box covered in Cabana's distinctive watercolored wrapping paper was awaiting collection for the Saudi royal family.

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Clockwise, from top left: Acrylic wheat salad bowl, about $230. Gilded rose quartz coasters, about $300. Hand-painted salt and pepper set (salt shaker not shown), about $270. Silicone crystal-design clutch, about $4,000. Shell ring, about $20. Linen flamestitch bag, about $100.Credit

While the products at Cabana may be for the beau monde, White's real motivation to open a store might actually be the grittier business of making things. "I love old men in their 80s who work with their hands," she says with a grin, referring to the artisans with whom she collaborates in silver, wicker and glass. There is a certain logic to this experiment being conducted on Capri; after all, shopping is one reason Jackie O. and Lee Radziwill used to come to the island, seeking the charming and the rare, doggedly shadowed by the photographer Ron Galella. There's no doubt all three of them would have ended up browsing here.

Via Fuorlovado, 1, 80073 Capri, cabanagloballuxe.com.

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