Kick Off Your Boots and Stay Awhile at HPV’s Miron Crosby
Visitors needed to travel down 16 miles of dirt road to reach the house where sisters Lizzie Means Duplantis and Sarah Means grew up in West Texas. After arriving, travelers would stay for a while and enjoy their mother’s beautiful hospitality.
The Highland Park Village flagship store of Miron Crosby, the sisters’ luxury, artisanal cowboy boot brand, isn’t quite as far off the beaten track. But the sisters hope that the store’s first significant renovation since its 2017 opening creates the same welcoming, hospitable feeling for visitors.
“Having the opportunity for people to come up and feel comfortable, have a ranch water, and get to know us and hear our story, that all is one of the tenets of our business,” Lizzie said. “We just knew we needed a really comfortable, beautiful store.”
The store nestled above rag & bone in Highland Park Village closed for eight days in August for what the sisters call its first true renovation. It reopened in the same 490-square-foot space, but with a redesign that feels warm, homey, and — like the elegant and unique boots sitting in shelving racks on its walls — fashion elevated.
Gone is the large, marble table that used to anchor the sisters’ “little tree house.” In its place are vintage furnishings inspired in part by glassware that the sisters collected in San Miguel, said Carrie White of White Interiors, the designer who led the renovations.
Elements of the redesign combine West Texas style and New York fashion. Feathered wallpaper from French fashion designer Christian Lacroix is so realistic that visitors might reach out a hand to touch it, while a vintage ceiling fixture is reminiscent of a wagon wheel.
“That’s sort of our special crossroads,” Sarah said. “In all of our design aesthetic is a little bit of western and a little bit of New York high fashion.”
The sisters lived in New York for about a decade, Sarah working in fashion and Lizzie in finance, before returning to Texas and launching Miron Crosby.
“Miron” is a play on their great-grandfather’s name and another word for the Biblical gift myrrh. “Crosby” is the name of a pasture on their family cattle ranch, as well as one of the sisters’ favorite streets in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, Lizzie said.
Since launching in 2017 with about 12 silhouettes, the company has left its boot print on the fashion and western wear industries. Miron Crosby’s collection has grown to include about 75 silhouettes, including a children’s collection that the sisters call Mini Crosby. In 2021, the sisters opened a studio in Aspen, and in 2023 they added another in Houston.
Their brand may be kicking up dust far from Highland Park Village, but the sisters said that Dallas, which has encouraged, supported, and championed them, is the perfect place for their signature store.
“We’re really proud our flagship is here,” Lizzie said. “Dallas women and men are the most stylish and know how to dress, and certainly know how to wear a cowboy boot. And so, we think this is the perfect place for us to fit, and a great representation of our clientele.”