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Published on April 27, 2022.
There are plenty of reasons you might be craving a piece of Philadelphia.
Maybe you missed out on scoring the perfect memento while in town for a recent visit. Perhaps you’re a resident 2-1-5er eager to support a local business and show off your hometown pride. Or maybe, you’re a homesick Philadelphian looking to reconnect with your former hometown.
Introducing: Shop Philly, a seasonal curation of items that deliver the Philly connection you’re looking for via creative and inspiring products from the shops that make Philly so awesomely Philly.
Fashion designer turned lifestyle-and-design guru, Maldonado is the founder and creative director of YOWIE, a popular Queen Village home and life shop showcasing and selling the creations of friends, independent artists and designers. This hands-on shopkeeper picks out every item she sells and in doing so pays homage to Philly’s thriving creative scene — just as the Shop Philly collection she curated for us aims to do.
Maldonado began her retail career with a pop-up shop, followed by an online store and then a storefront, and now she’s expanding her footprint to include a shoppable boutique hotel, cafe and even larger retail space set to open on South Street this fall.
Maldonado assembled the Shop Philly collection below for spring and summer 2022, shining a bright spotlight on Philly’s small and minority-owned businesses.
The Visit Philly Overnight Package — booked more than 190,000 times since 2001 — comes with free hotel parking (worth up to $100 in Center City Philadelphia), overnight hotel accommodations and choose-your-own-adventure perks.
Black-owned spas, boutiques, bookstores and more...