Humble Abode

There is no trash can on the southeast corner of Hester and Ludlow Streets, but you will find plenty of refuse. Bode, the luxury clothing brand—in partnership with Green River Project, the luxury interior designer of its One-Of-A-Kind Shoppe at 54 Hester—has filled its store windows with garbage. There are piles of loose feathers and cotton batting and rolls of crumpled, yellowed lace; there are cardboard tubes and bolts of worn fabric slouching dejectedly against a tongue-and-groove wall. There’s a vintage poster announcing a sale of children’s hand-me-downs. There are dozens of boxes of buttons from a recently shuttered factory in Iowa, once the largest button producer in the world. Somewhere there’s a copy of Georges Bataille’s collection of essays Visions of Excess (1985). On a chunk of upholstery foam near the center of one window there is, inexplicably, a single dark pube.

The brainchild of Atlanta-born designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla, Bode emerged during the Trump administration from a crop of designers and labels (Raf Simons at Calvin Klein, the artist Sterl…