Hills & Gardens: High Style for Young Kids
By Trudy Whitman
To the casual observer, the new children’s clothing, shoe, and accessory shop on Atlantic Avenue appears to be the partnership of husband and wife John Lowe and Marissa Alperin. In reality, however, there are four people behind the concept of Junior Lowe. For the couple’s two young boys, five-year-old Diego and his brother Sebi, aged three, have driven the designs that are showcased in the shop.
Diego and Sebi are fifth-generation Brooklynites who spend summers in Spain — the family homeland — with Grandmother and Great-grandmother. There the boys are outfitted with many of the items they wear during the school year. Other Brooklyn parents complimented the two little fashion plates and looked, they complained, in vain for similar, affordable clothing for their own children.