"My look is Pakistani tailor," she said. At her downtown boutique, No. 6, she updates the flower-child style - all vintage Indian-printed voile dresses and bib-front coveralls - with unorthodox accents like unlaced white jazz shoes or studded gladiator sandals.
Beth Buccini, an owner of Kirna Zabete, the progressive shop in SoHo, is an advocate of a hippie revivalism that mingles the tough with the tender. "Accent your hippie look with neo-punk to make it modern," Buccini urged.
At Teen Vogue, Gloria Baume, the fashion director and a self-professed neo-bohemian, observed: "The summer of love 2007 is very different from the original. On lower Broadway, young girls are wearing little corduroy or patchwork dresses mixed with modern elements: a piece of crystal, sandals in metallic or patent leather.
"It's a look we've never seen before - 'hippie' mixed with patent leather. All of a sudden it all feels modern."
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