East Village artist Delphine Le Goff finds her New York niche through art and boutique

Delphine Le Goff would like to call your attention to her 2024 calendar , which includes her renderings of East Village spots such as Astor Place Hairstylists, Village Works and her local laundromat. Available at 3rd and B’Zaar and the Village Works bookshop

Photo by Bob Krasner

There are people in this world whose sense of style amply covers up the fact that they don’t have much else going on, and there are those whose apparel is just an outward expression of everything that they’ve got happening.

East Village artist/entrepreneur Delphine Le Goff happily falls into the latter category — whether she’s behind the counter at her shop 3rd and B’zaar, creating and assembling windows for Love Shack Fancy, or selling her art in an open air market, you can count on her to look fabulous.

A former actress, Le Goff left France 20 years to come to our metropolis.

“I wanted to get the f–k out of Paris!” she demurely explains. “It was too small for me.”

Back home, “school was just something annoying to deal with” and attending the renowned theatre school Cours Florent pointed her in the direction of an acting career. “I made a few films,” she recounts, but she left that path behind when she hit the city.

“Being French in New York was an advantage,” she recalls, but her grasp of English was not quite up to speed. After gigs as a sales associate at Issey Miyake and La Perla, she found herself as an assistant shop trimmer at Bloomingdale’s.

“The most exhausting part of my job was trying to figure out what people were telling me — I didn’t understand 75% of what they said,” she recalls.

Over the years, she’s worked on windows and decor (while greatly improving her language skills) for Macy’s, Urban Outfitters, Saks Fifth Avenue, Anthropologie and now at Bergdorf Goodman, where she also sells her original artwork on the Home Floor.

“I started making art during the lockdown,” Le Goff says. “I couldn’t work and I…