Canvas

Brrrrrr. It’s COLD in this store. All the comments about getting attitude from the saleswomen are right on target. The clothes are cute, but there’s nothing here you can’t get someplace else. So I recommend you take your business someplace else … someplace where they’re actually happy to have you as a customer.

I’m quite surprised to read some of the other reviews here??? Everytime I go into Canvas the sales associates couldn’t be MORE helpful. In fact, I specifically go there for inspiration on wardrobe because everything in that store is amazing and they know way more about how to put things together than I do. I’m always on a budget but if I really love something, and will wear it all the time, it’s worth buying a quality piece– this store is full of those! When I want to look HOT– that’s where I go.

The only reason I am giving Canvas one star is because of the BS customer service I received while browsing in there.
The women who work in there are the rudest ladies I have encountered in a Mill Valley boutique. I entered the store and no one greeted me or asked me if I needed help… maybe because they thought I couldn’t afford anything in there or because I wasn’t there «usual» clientele (middle aged marin housewife), but still! I am frequent shopper of Allie G and Mill Valley Mercantile which both have amazing customer service and a way better selection of clothing!!! If I could give the workers at Canvas some advice I would tell them to take their snoody attitude and shove it up there you know what because they probably can’t even afford what they sell in there unless its on sale and they use there store discount (not to sound like a bitch)…and also we are in MILL VALLEY most people can afford to shop at their store, so don’t judge a book by its cover.
NOTE: The clothes are quality, and worth every penny. I just wouldn’t spend money on a place that doesn’t appreciate their clients.
Overall, Mill Valley has great boutiques throughout downtown… don’t waste your time in this joint… no doubt you will have way better experience some place else in town that has a way better selection of quality clothing!

Sadly the second location in Larkspur has closed. Mill
Valley is still open.

I haven’t been to Mill Valley since high school. Did this space used to be a really cool boutique, not as pricey, with cool T-​shirts and equally cool staff? Someone please let me know.
But not anymore it is!
It’s a high priced boutique, but my one star isn’t for the products at all! It was the awful customer service we received this very afternoon!
Wednesday’s clerk obviously thinks straightening a sweater and a pair of toppled boots is WAY too much work for her; ESPECIALLY when the place is EMPTY and clean as a whistle!
My friend and I were the only ones in there, she was just fiddling behind the desk with nothing to do I bet. Well, the pair of boots under the racks was already tilted anyway, and I was looking at some droopy over-​sized sweaters. I just checked the sleeves and the label, and when I was moving away it was still on the hanger. But you know how droopy sweaters are, and it slipped off as I walked away.
In the dead silence of the boutique as I went to my friend, I heard the most exasperated, «I hate my life and I hate you» sigh in my entire life!!! We were leaving right then and I turned around to say «thank you» and I saw she was straightening the sweater and boots. AS IF that is a grievous amount of work to do on a dead Wednesday afternoon. Miss sour puss thinks so.
I work at a busy consignment shop in Nob Hill, and that stuff happens every 5 seconds (because we actually get business on weekdays)… THAT warrants an exasperated sigh which I do emit!
But sheesh, if you are working in a posh expensive no-​customer boutique with little to no clean up and about… 100 pieces of clothing at the MOST in clear visible sight… you don’t have to be a wench about it. Go get a real «busy hectic» job if you think you have SO MUCH to handle.
I’m not going back here again… unless the owner tells the workers to get their act together… or go send them to work at Lohmann’s or Old Navy to see what real busy retail is all about!

Some great dresses, high prices, attentive helpful sales staff. A LOT of weird super expensive «pieces» that no one would ever ever wear off the red carpet. That said I found a fabulous little silk dress for under $ 200. Their Larkspur store is great too.

i have to say that after reading the reviews i was a little nervous about shopping at canvas but a friend of mine got a shirt there that i was in love with, so i went anyway. they were so NICE the manager with the little dog was the sweetest cutest girl i have ever met! well at least in a long time. they have super cute cloths and now i send everyone there!

I was in here over a year ago and the one sales girl was decently nice to me. I appreciate that this place could easily turn into a one stop shop if I were ever to move to Mill Valley (hopefully the chance is high). They carry a great selection of jeans and other trendy wares along with the staple t-​shirts, dresses, etc.
I love that they carry Tory Burch cuz I have a handful of her tunics and Stitches jeans… which are totally unique. This place is not exactly the place to go for a really out of this world outfit, but for everyday ware its a go.

Let me start by saying that Mill Valley is FULL of boutiques like Canvas. Same brands, same prices, same bla bla bla. But I’ve never encountered such bitchy service (or lackthereof) from any of the boutiques I’ve visited here.
At most Mill Valley boutiques, you are be greeted with friendly service that think nothing of the store’s high price tags. It’s to be expected that you pay a lot for a shirt. But at Canvas, they act like they are better than you BECAUSE they are a chi-​chi botuique, like they are the only one around so they have reason to be higher-​than-​thou.
Newsflash Canvas. You’re no different than the rest of the high-​priced stores next door to you or down the street, so cut the attitude.
I’m a girl who loves her denim, and I appreciate the selection of designer jeans. But no way will I consider venturing through Canvas only to have a deja-​vu a la Pretty Woman.
I can usually cope with the pretentiousness of restaurants and some stores. But Canvas really irritates me. I mean I had to flag down this woman to get a dressing room, even though I was clearly waiting beside it, arms full of clothes. The saleswoman totally didn’t think I was planning on buying any of it – I admit I looked kinda janky in my sweats and all, but cut me some slack, I had just come from the gym! But I had money to spend! Too bad, Canvas, too bad. I’ve tried this store a couple times, thinking the next time would be better than the last. Maybe I just had to give it a chance? Each time I was met with the same coldness from the saleswomen.
Bottom line – this place has a shitload of attitude, and it isn’t worth it. Cute clothes can be found elsewhere, like at any of Mill Valley’s other boutiques.

They have some cute pieces in there not to original though as you can find the same lines at Nordstroms. I bought a beautiful necklace and a cute over priced top in there. Their biggest down fall is that they are really snooty in there. Don’t expect customer good service in there as you pretty much have to help yourself. I even had to ask to be rung up!

Canvas carries some of my favorite brands and what sets them apart from other stores carrying these brands is that the owner and buyer Kendra picks all the must haves from the collections. I think she does a wonderful job of displaying and the store is very attractive. I like to pop in here every now and then and see what she is showing and most always end up walking away with a shopping bag and grin on my face!

What a bunch of pretentious, snobby women this place employs.
Maybe they carry a bunch of fancy lines, but few pieces seem wearable.
Good luck getting some help or even a smile in there unless you walk in wearing the latest Balenciaga bag or look like an old rich woman. Seriously, the service was that bad. The women who worked here barely even LOOKED at me. I mean, it’s one thing not to help me find my jean size, but to deny my presence in your store?
RIDICULOUS.

Cute boutique in Mill Valley.
Great selection of jeans with brands such as Rock and Republic, Seven, Citizens, Notify, Stitch, etc. In fact, I came in today and they were having a great sale on jeans. Buy one and get one FREE!

Vince, Diane von Furstenberg, Theory, Izod and a bevy other designers — you’ll find them here. Their buyer understands trends and carries a solid collection of classics as well as whatever is current. Remember those Moroccan print tunics made popular by Tory Burch, the shop carried them. And, remember a year or two ago when Yanuk jeans were all the rage, they had them. The shop itself is quite attractive, surrounded by floor-​to-​ceiling windows on a sunny downtown corner. Get on their mailing list for cocktail trunk shows. In my opinion, this is the best women’s boutique this side of the Golden Gate.