Best of Boston
Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Serenella
Boston
Serenella may have turned 30 last year, but it's hardly showing its age. The Newbury standby continues to display a sure hand in plucking the [...] read more»
2010 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Serenella
Boston
Thirty years in, Serenella has blossomed under current owner Leslee Shupe, who works hard to keep her clients well appointed. Covetable pieces by Giambattista Valli, [...] read more»
2008 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Serenella
Boston
Owner Leslee Shupe Korff believes in reviving the lost art of feminine dressing—tailored skirt, statement coat, and well-paired heels (always heels)—and her immaculately edited shop [...] read more»
2006 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Louis Boston
Boston
Louis has long clothed our city's who's who in sometimes elegant, sometimes edgy apparel—Balenciaga and Zac Posen, Project Alabama and Proenza Schouler. Plus, the überchic [...] read more»
2005 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Serenella
Boston
The carefully edited collections draw us in, but it's the velvet-rope factor that keeps us coming back: As the exclusive area retailer of such high-end [...] read more»
2004 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Serenella
Boston
No one knows how to dress a woman with more sophistication than the Italians. That's why this Newbury Street boutique, which stocks the best of [...] read more»
2003 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Tess & Carlos
Cambridge
No doubt the chic Cambridge salespeople at this refined boutique blanch a little every time they have to tell a prospective customer, "We're just down [...] read more»
2002 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Akris
Boston
If we had a sequin for every clothing company that claims to marry modern style with timelessness, we'd have ourselves a full-on Oscars dress. Enter [...] read more»
2001 Best Women's Clothing, Sophisticated
Serenella
Boston
Whether the occasion is a charity ball, garden party, or black-tie wedding, you'll always find the right frock here. Fashions from all the "it" designers [...] read more»