Off topic, since I can't comment on the quality of Martin and Osa pieces, but I was wondering what others thought of the store. I went there with Sihaya during our shopping trip last week, and while Sihaya found a really cute black skirt there, overall I really didn't know what to make of the store. I didn't "get" their concept, like what their style was, who their target shopper was etc. Personally I didn't think it was like J Crew at all; I find J Crew so much more colorful and trendy, and M&O didn't nearly have as many different styles and not as many fun and interesting and unique styles as J Crew. It was also a relatively big and bare store, with extremely fancy dressing rooms that felt super nice at first (more like a dressing room at a spa than a store) but had a bizzarre door mechanism that made us feel foolish since we couldn't figure out how to work it. The sales rep was friendly but way soft-spoken and solicitous and we had the feeling that they don't get a ton of customers. I came away with the feeling that this chain might not be in business next year... (but maybe it's just cause I got burned with my Nau purchase a few months ago... so know I do eye new stores much more suspiciously.) Anyway, I don't mean to badmouth the store at all and I'm happy to hear that others have made good purchases there; I just didn't really grog their offering and their brand.
