Greatest Clothes Retailer 2022 | Procuring + Providers

GOLD WINNER

Candy Pea Boutique
1542 Queen Avenue, Halifax
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SILVER WINNER

Biscuit Common Retailer
2050 Gottingen Avenue
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BRONZE WINNER

The Loot Classic
1711 Barrington Avenue
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When you really feel such as you’ve wandered into your greatest good friend’s closet if you enter Candy Pea Boutique, then Johanna Galipeau’s job is completed. The founder and proprietor of the Queen Avenue clothes store thrives on a “non-pressure” surroundings, the place she’s simply as excited to speak with common prospects as she is “in case you got here again 10 occasions and did not purchase something.” A fixture in Halifax’s style scene for 15 years and counting, Candy Pea Boutique sources its threads from “throughout”—whether or not it’s Montreal, London, Australia or Denmark—and focuses on limited-run objects. “I’m placing new stuff out each few days,” Galipeau says, talking by cellphone with The Coast. For the previous Saint Mary’s College dropout who opened up her enterprise at 19, issues have turned out nicely for Galipeau. Final yr, she purchased her constructing. This yr marks Candy Pea’s fourth gold Better of Halifax award in a row. “There are such nice shops, and I’m all the time shocked once I get [the recognition],” she says. “It’s such an honour.”