Inside 57 Great Jones Street, Angelina Jolie’s Atelier Jolie fuses fashion repair, refugee-run cuisine, and Basquiat history into a creative hub where visitors co-design one-of-a-kind garments from vintage fabrics.
Forget cookie-cutter flagships. In November 2024, Angelina Jolie quietly opened Atelier Jolie inside 57 Great Jones Street—Jean-Michel Basquiat’s onetime studio and a former Andy Warhol property.
The space operates less like a boutique and more like an art commune for clothes: an open workshop where vintage jackets meet expert tailors, refugee chefs serve global comfort food, and visitors leave with garments that carry new stories instead of environmental guilt.
Walk past the graffitied doorway and you’re stepping into living art history. Basquiat created many of his late-’80s canvases on these floors; Warhol rented him the loft.
Jolie’s team has preserved the raw brick, the paint splatters, even a few handwritten scrawls—folding contemporary creativity into a still-electric aura.
Atelier Jolie’s mantra is simple: Nothing new unless absolutely necessary. Racks brim with reclaimed denim, silk off-cuts, and dead-stock couture yardage.
Customers book a slot with in-house artisans—pattern-makers from Beirut, embroiderers from Oaxaca, boro specialists from Tokyo—to transform old garments or design fresh pieces with recycled cloth. Every scrap is tracked; every thread has a past life.
Planet math: Atelier Jolie aims to divert 2 tons of textile waste from landfill in its first full year, the equivalent of roughly 15,000 T-shirts.
On the mezzanine, the scent of Syrian cardamom and Venezuelan cacao drifts from Eat Offbeat, the café operated with NYC non-profit partners that train and employ refugees.
The menu rotates monthly—think Afghan mantu dumplings, Congolese peanut stew, Guatemalan plantain bread—turning lunch into a passport-free culinary tour while providing stable income for newcomers.
Up-Cycling 101: Repair, patch, and paint your denim with textile artist Teresa Flores (Saturdays, $45).
Experimental Drawing Nights: Sketch live models in reclaimed-fabric couture under crimson studio lights (first Thursdays, free with RSVP).
Intimate Apparel Lab: Design bespoke bralettes from vintage lace with Lebanese pattern-maker Rana K. (bi-monthly, $95).
Each session caps at twelve participants—bring curiosity, leave with skills and a tangible souvenir.
Why settle for off-the-rack? Book the One-of-One service: a two-hour consultation where you and a master tailor co-create a piece from Jolie-curated fabric archives. Embroidery, screen-printing, even digital fabric painting are on offer. Turnaround is four to six weeks; provenance is forever.
Atelier Jolie redefines the boutique as a living ecosystem—where Basquiat’s restless spirit meets circular fashion, where refugee recipes mingle with couture off-cuts, and where every visitor becomes an active collaborator.
In a city overflowing with retail, Angelina Jolie’s up-cycling atelier offers something rarer: a chance to stitch sustainability, social impact, and personal expression into the very fabric of downtown New York.
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