Jacquemus opens Miami flagship packed with art and design
Jacquemus, the French fashion house founded by designer Simon Porte Jacquemus, has opened a flagship boutique in Miami's Design District. The shop sits at 157 NE 40th Street, according to WWD. It runs to 2,900 square feet across two floors.
The design was conceived by Jacquemus with OMA, the architecture firm. Stucco walls meet handmade terracotta floor tiles. Forged-iron furniture and details run through the rooms.
The focal point is a sculptural staircase. It is built in Saint-Marc Jaune stone and encircled with a forged-metal balustrade. Outside, two orange-tree planters in French oak copy the model designed by André Le Nôtre for the Château de Versailles, personalised with a Jacquemus badge.
Art does heavy lifting inside. Key works include Germaine Richier's 1954 bronze 'Le Coureur,' Aristide Maillol's 1900 bronze 'Femme Couchée' and André Bauchant's 'Nature morte aux fruits dans un paysage.' Further pieces are by Joan Miró, Jean Cocteau, Raoul Dufy, Josef Hoffmann, Martin Parr, Louis Cane, Killion Huang, Wolfgang Tillmans and Pablo Picasso.
Furniture mixes design history with southern France. There is a mahogany coffee table and bookshelf by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, wall lights and a pedestal ashtray by French designer Jean Royère, and Thomas Lee's original Westport chair beside 19th-century Provençal furniture from the south of France.
There is a dedicated shoe salon. A private VIC area, where VIC means very important client and denotes top-spending shoppers, is set up as a jardin d'hiver, a glass sunroom, with 1950s garden furniture by Mathieu Matégot. The Miami space is already equipped for beauty, a category due to arrive next year.
The Miami opening extends a United States retail run. Jacquemus opened a New York flagship in 2024 and a Los Angeles location in 2025, alongside a seasonal boutique at Rosewood Miramar Beach in Montecito, California. Chief executive Sarah Benady told WWD the company had cut its wholesale network, selling to shops that resell as against selling direct to shoppers, by about a third.
Miami is not new ground. The Webster, the Miami-based speciality store, was one of Jacquemus's early wholesale accounts more than a decade ago. The city was also the setting for its 2022 campaign featuring Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican singer.
What makes this stand out is the density. Most shops hang art. Few fit bronze sculpture, Versailles planters and a stone stair into 2,900 square feet.
