Robin Fuchs, who owns Nuspört, has lived in Naples for five years and has watched the town grow younger. When her friend Polley told her last year that he was working on a new collection of luxury sports and spa wear, Fuchs decided to open a store to sell it. She has a successful background as the owner of clothing emporiums in the Northeast and still divides her time between here and New York.
The fabrics that Polley uses for the Nuspört private label are 100-percent pima cotton, cotton/Lycra blends, cashmere and fleeced cashmere. The inventory is organized by color and the colors are so yummy: pale turquoise, tender buttercup, ivory and white, sea-mist green, mango, shell pink-everything soft and sophisticated, no primary colors.
The way that the inventory is arranged and displayed contributes to the light and airy ambience of the store, with its bamboo floors and comfortable, oversized modern furniture. You'll feel good shopping here amid the camisoles, sweaters (the cashmere ones from New Scotland are $298), tank tops, and exercise trousers with a comfortable elastic waistband. The tennis, golf, workout and spa clothing inventory is select, which means there isn't a lot of it, but what there is will certainly tempt you.
One side of the store is devoted to women's togs; the opposite side is for gentlemen. Besides clothing, Nuspört stocks several collections of scented candles (in fragrances such as sake, cypress and palomino, $45), and body pampering products such as soy eye gel ($35), Hesperides body shampoo, various balms, brown-sugar body polish, and soaps with luscious names such as jasmine rose, fig apricot or gardenia magnolia for $9. Each bar is beautifully wrapped in metallic flecked opaque paper and tied with a golden string-a useful hostess gift or something special for a guest bath or your own. After all that shopping, you'll want to enjoy a nice, long soak.
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