Making fashions pop: How Palos Verdes made a New York girl’s dreams come true
Renee Jaco in Poppi, her boutique located in Lunada Bay. Photo by David Fairchild Renee Jaco knows what she likes when she sees it. For the fresh-faced, classically chic boutique owner, Palos Verdes Estates inspired love at first sight. “It’s the place I had envisioned living, I just never knew it existed until I took a ride up here one day,” she recalls. “It was like, ‘Here it is. I love it.’” Together with her husband, Brad, Jaco made the move from Manhattan Beach in 2007, while pregnant with her now three-year-old twins, Miles and Olivia. The East Coast transplants—Renee is from Garden City, New York, and Brad is from New Canaan, Connecticut—were immediately charmed by the traditional style neighborhoods of Palos Verdes Estates, which brought back memories of their respective hometowns. “It reminds me of home where all the kids can play outside and you talk with your neighbors,” says Jaco. “It’s not so fast paced [that] people don’t stop and say hello. People remember you. The coffee shop always remembers what coffee I like to drink. And I love that!” As a newcomer to the area, it was at her go-to coffee shop, St. Honoré Bistro Caffe, Jaco first started connecting with other PV…
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