After ten years in Nolita--the space where the designer became, for the second time in her life, a frontrunner in the fashion world--Maria Cornejo has moved her business to a much larger space which now serves as her New York storefront, atelier, and showroom. Possibly the most architecturally riveting quality are the lead framed windows which are, to a New Yorker, the equivalent of owning a time machine to a much older, cooler version of the place they live. Leave it to Cornejo, who is always so effortlessly in-the-know.

Check out a first look at the new flagship below and, for more, Cornejo's Fall 2009 collection and a just-launched sale of the designer's clothing on Gilt Groupe.