Wingtip

What’s the password? The secret handshake? We close our eyes as childhood memories flood back to us-days of secret forts, imaginative kingdoms and celebrated conquests.

As we open our eyes, the San Francisco skyline emerges before us. We aren’t atop a rickety treehouse from our youth, but on the scenic rooftop of Wingtip, one of the city’s most revered luxury retail stores for men.

Wingtip is the brainchild of owners Ami Arad and Sam Neth. Arad spent four years in high school on the speech and debate team which meant his weekends were spent wearing a coat and tie. When an old school men’s store in Berkeley called George J. Good had a “Help Wanted” sign on their door, he applied and got the job. This experience instilled in him certain qualities as a young man that shaped his vision for Wingtip today: exquisite taste (especially as they pertained to tailored clothing), a nostalgia for men’s haberdashery and a desire to exceed customer’s expectations.

Housed in a 22,000 square foot renovated bank, Wingtip is home to a retail environment like no other. Offering some of San Francisco’s finest men’s clothing and accessories, it is part playground, part grooming mecca and part social sanctuary. Within its historic walls lives an ever-expanding assortment of male-orientated amenities such as a barbershop, a shoe shine stand and a private club with a full bar, cigar room and golf simulator. From its wine cave with rentable wine lockers to its private parlor rooms decorated exclusively in English flannel or Italian leather, Wingtip gives us a warm and well curated glimpse of life at the top.