Rite Aid | South Beach | Shore Club | Miami

The Perfect Storm

by Mark Seal

I mostly go to Barneys Co-op in South Beach, which is all Barneys stuff from their stores in L.A. and New York. When I want to have big-time shopping, there's Bal Harbour Shops, a 20-minute drive from South Beach. All the big stores are there. And then there's Scoop, which is inside the Shore Club. Scoop is sort of just a mixture of really cute things. When you are going out and you didn't bring a dress, or if I have an event and I didn't buy jewelry, I go to Scoop. There's Me & Ro Jewelry, as well, a sort of spiritual-based store in the Shore Club. It's just a great place to go to if you forgot stuff.

The City Spirit in a Drugstore
What makes Miami so great isn't hanging out with celebrities. What makes it great is the vibe of the city. You feel like you're in Latin America. It feels more liberal. I like that when I would go into the Rite Aid in Miami, everyone was speaking Spanish to me. No one would speak En­glish at all. It wasn't, like, a mom-and-pop bodega - it was a Rite Aid. And I don't speak Spanish at all, so I just sort of piecemealed my own version of Spanish to get out of the store. They don't care that you don't speak Spanish, but they're going to speak Spanish to you regardless. People are real proud to be who they are, and, I don't know, I like it. I like that when you go to a place like Rite Aid or Walgreens, you know, they're going to speak in Spanish to you just because they can.

The Sans-Paparazzi Beach Walk


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