The inbox of well-read New York shoppers came to life on Monday evening at Printemps. Former New York Magazine writer Emilia Petrarca, who writes the newsletter Shop Rat, organized a summit of some of Substack’s most-read fashion and retail authors for a series of panels, to discuss the state of New York retail, shopping newsletters and gift guides. “The whole point of Shop Rat is going to stores and talking to people, so this is really my dream come true,” Petrarca told the audience as she kicked things off. The first panel, centered around what a modern store in New York looks like, featured Gregory Gourdet, culinary director of Printemps New York; Katherine Lewin, founder of the “dinner party essentials” store Big Night and writer of the newsletter Little Gems; Kathleen Sorbara, founder of Williamsburg designer vintage store Sorbara’s, and Somsack Sikhounmuong, creative director of Alex Mill and writer of the newsletter Somstack. “I think a modern store feels less like a place where transactions happen and more like a place where you step in and you are experiencing something – a feeling, a sense, a smell,” Lewin said. After opening first in Greenpoint, Big Night has expanded to the West Village

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