“I guess I should have called it The Watch Speakeasy instead,” laughs Patrick Parrish. It has just been pointed out that the name of the New York design gallery owner’s latest venture, the Secret Watch Shop, is possibly less than appropriate now it has been featured in The New York Times, as well as his own Instagram feed, replete with over 43,000 followers.

Comey started her first business in rural Vermont with a line of women’s underwear, before moving to New York in 1997. Subsequently, she spent several years working as a freelance assistant on photoshoots, designing stage outfits (David Bowie was an early admirer) and had a stint working at the fashion brand, Theory, launching her own label in 2001, with a menswear collection.

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