Tracey Ross calls it quits on Sunset Strip
Jen Meyer met husband Tobey Maguire here, Kate Hudson bought her first Stella McCartney for Chloe dress here, and Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss worked here for a summer. The memories are still fresh for retailer Tracey Ross, who last week closed the doors of her boutique, another casualty of the recession.
"I can't believe it's been 18 years," she said Monday night, stacking the last few pairs of Indian toe-ring sandals on the floor in her near-empty shop. "Lindsay [Lohan] and Samantha [Ronson] stopped in yesterday. I'm just telling people to come by and give me a hug."
Ross, a Farrah Fawcett look-alike who's Hollywood thin, grew up in Long Beach. She opened on Robertson Boulevard in 1990, before moving to Sunset Plaza in 1996, selling high-end clothes by McCartney, Thakoon and Derek Lam alongside such L.A. lifestyle necessities as "Trust Me I'm a Yoga Teacher" T-shirts, Shamballa bracelets, Slim Aarons photography books and her own Tracey Ross-branded sugar scrubs and body butters.
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-- Booth Moore
