Spotlight: Capitol Boutiqe, Charlotte, NC

Capitol Boutique carries the following brands:

• Azzedine Alaia
• Alexander McQueen
• Alexander Wang
• Allude
• Altuzzarra
• Anndra Neen
• Bajra
• Balenciaga
• Balmain
• Barbara Tiank
• Boy
• Carven
• Celine
• Chloe
• Christopher Kane
• Derek Lam
• Dries Van Noten
• Duro Olowu
• Eddie Borgo
• Erdem
• Giambattista Valli
• Givenchy 
• Girl
• Isaac Mizrahi
• Isabel Marant
• Lanvin
• Marc Jacobs
• Marni
• Martin Margiela
• Meadham Kirchoff
• Nicolas Kirkwood
• Nina Ricci
• Oscar de la Renta
• Pamela Love
• Proenza Schouler
• Rag & Bone
• Rick Owens
• Rocha
• Rodarte
• The Row
• Suno
• Stella McCartney
• Tabitha Simmons
• Tom Binns
• Valentino
• YSL 
• Zac Posen

 

Laura Vinroot Poole is the proprietor of Capitol, the hottest boutique in Charlotte!  We convinced Laura to sit for a minute to talk fashion, shopping, travel – and a few personal topics. How about that?

How do you encourage your customers to take risks?
I think that is my job…people come to me for that. I have women in their 60s wearing Balenciaga motorcycle jackets and they end up looking more modern and, oddly, more like themselves.  They seem to have a new confidence about themselves.

Define style – a person who embodies it.
I am an admirer of Slim Keith’s glamorous yet down to earth style.


What watch are you wearing?
Cartier Tank; it was a wedding present from my husband and I’m not sure I have taken it off in the last 12 years.

Your closet would not be complete without:
Azzedine Alaia and Yves Saint Laurent

What’s your it bag of the moment?
Proenza Schouler. The anti-it bag…no logos, just function.

Favorite fashion icon:
Jerry Hall in the late 1970′s

In New York you must:
Have a Gin Gin Mule at Bemmelman’s.

What you would pack for a weekend in Paris:
Alaia dress, Lanvin flats, Nicholas Kirkwood heels, Indian embroidered shawls, Rag and Bone trench

Favorite place to shop:
Marie-Helene de Taillac in Paris

Favorite Hotel and why:
Villa D’Este [in Italy], because I had my honeymoon there

Dream vacation:
A week at home with no phone and no computer or a train trip on the Zephyr across the US.

Favorite room in your house and why:

My bedroom…threadbare Pratesi sheets and crisp Leontine linens.  I love a Sunday afternoon nap.

Favorite piece of art at home:

Sally Mann’s “Deep South No. 45″

Personal fragrance:

Une Rose by Fredric Malle, a pure rose that’s not too sweet.

Favorite home fragrance:

Diptyque’s Feuille de Lavande – it smells like I’ve cleaned even when I haven’t.

What makes you split your sides laughing?

My daughter and “The Office.”

When you have time to yourself you…

I read cookbooks and pull weeds in my garden (in progress).

Interview Via Charlotte Moss