John Allan's To Open at Saks Fifth Avenue




"NEW YORK — Betting that significant growth rates in the men's prestige grooming category are more than a bubble, Saks Fifth Avenue is one of the latest retailers building up a men's grooming area separate from the main beauty floor...Now, the chain has partnered with stylist and barbershop-salon proprietor John Allan Meing to open a 1,500-square-foot concept also in the seventh floor's men's department, a shop inspired by the so-called John Allan's "clubs" on 46th Street and Trinity Place in Manhattan."..."I said, ‘We have to have it,'" Saks' president and chief operating officer Andrew Jennings noted during a recent interview, discussing his reaction during a visit to a John Allan's club. Jennings said he thought: "It's an innovative and unique concept."