Article: In her closet.(fashion store owner Beth Shepard)(Brief Article)

Beth Shepherd's stellar SoHo shop puts a bright spotlight on downtown style.

When Beth Shepherd met her future best friend and business partner, Sarah Hailes, at the University of Virginia 10 years ago, she never dreamed the two would one day create an emporium of eccentric fashion in New York with pink plastic floors and a bulk-candy dispenser. Back then Shepherd strolled around campus in the southern preppie uniform of crisp white shirt, pearl necklace and pressed medium-blue jeans.

Today, as co-owner of the Kirna Zabete boutique in SoHo, Shepherd's tastes have turned away from the twinsets of her hometown of Norfolk, VA, and plunged into what she ...

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