Let’s welcome the newly remodeled, expanded and reopened Marc by Marc Jacobs Provincetown store. I just love the marc by marc branded branded blue bench, and really who doesn’t love a five foot tall gigantic swan…
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A Traveling Gucci
Icon- Temporary Store, Gucci has hit London and featuring a wide range of footwear including the ‘Gucci Ronson’ which was designed in collaboration with Mark Ronson.
Gucci Icon-Temporary Sneaker Store, 37 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London
Via: Wonderland
The Sydney Cloakroom
The Cloakroom just opened shop in Sydney’s trendy neighborhood of Surry Hills, featuring equally trendy collections. The Brisbane creator of the brand and former product designer is offering both an original ready-to-wear line and custom fitted collection along with other products by Grenson, an English shoemakers since 1866 and B3 a brand new custom bicycle maker, also from Sydney. Check out their new digs…
Address: 47 Reservoir St, Surry Hills. Australia
Via: Viacomit
Couture Gallery Boutique
Melrose’s newest addition, REVOLVE is a welcome one. Designed by LA’s very own multidisciplinary architecture firm Standard, the new boutique for online couture retailer REVOLVE is a beautifully configured spaced conceived from a gallery typology. The 2,600 sq.ft. space at Melrose and La Cienega is designed to be a flexible space as destination for art, fashion and various other creative events.
For REVOLVE’s retail debut, our design needed to fulfill our clients requirements both from functional and a symbolic standpoint,” said Silvia Kuhle, Standard Partner. “As a young company making a significant jump to the next phase of its development, REVOLVE needed a space that would comfortably showcase their constantly changing selection of couture brands while also embodying their rise from virtual world retailer to real world fashion destination.”
We can’t wait to go see it for ourselves when we’re back in LA next month…
Ralph Lauren Paris: Update
Ralph Lauren Paris
This week has witnessed the opening of Ralph Lauren’s newest flagship in Paris on the Boulevard Saint Germain. Located within a premiere 1600’s Parisian townhouse and consisting of about 13,000 square feet, it is one of the largest Ralph Lauren stores, featuring an assortment of Lauren collections and the first European “Ralphs”, a Ralph Lauren Restaurant. The intent was to capture the essence and romanticism of Paris that everyone falls in love with by reamining historically accurate, and it looks like they have suceeded in doing so. Check out the video below to see some of the fabrication of the new boutique’s fittings. As I get interior photos I will update…
A Pointy Impression
Entrance, a new clothing store in Bucharest by Romanian Square Studio features angular pointy displays and a monochromatic palette. The space is best described by Square Studio:
“The concept began by trying to transform a space of 200 sqm in an allegory. Imaginary animals that abide in a surreal forest, a refuge, a route. Thus it might sound pretentious, technical and formal achievement must remain simple, unsophisticated, a honest approach to the conceptual design, not supported by pretentious materials or sophisticated systems.
I tried to use as little graphics or decorative elements as possible to illustrate the concept, functional objects must do that. The shape of those object should tell the story. A peculiarity of this arrangement is the fact that none of the objects used were purchased. All items being manufactured under the project. The shapes and positions of the objects in central space was designed so as to create several routes for equal exposure of the emblematic products.
Art-Deco Shoe Chic
Coccodrillo has long been Antwerp’s shoes shopping destination and now across the street they have expanded with a men’s emporium. Designed by Gert Voorjans the new shoe boutique is a two story art-deco inspired space featuring retro accents, abstracted chandeliers and, of course, great shoes, including such brands as adam kimmel, lanvin and dior. I’m loving the space, give me art deco anything and I’m a fool in love. Particularly the chandeliers and wrought iron are driving me wild…
© coccodrillo / photography: ronald stoops
Another Burberry
So, another Burberry opened in Belgrade, Serbia this week, measuring about 290 sqm/ 3100 sqft carrying the label’s ready to wear lines Burberry London and Burberry Brit. A pretty nice size for a boutique, but unfortunately, however, the store looks like every other Burberry I’ve ever been in and seen. I understand it isn’t a flagship and it doesn’t carry Burberry’s Prorsum collections, but it is rather generic, except perhaps for its historical facade. The reason in part may be because the store was not actually designed by an architect firm but by Buberry’s own store planning and viasual teams. Come on, let’s step it up a bit, Burberry, you have so many resources and have the ability to be much more iconic than this. Unlike Mac Jacobs’ stores, this is not a destination shop. Jetsetters will overlook this boutique because they can have the same experience right at home, might as well go do something more unique in Belgrade. I love you Burberry, but I think it’s time you call up Peter Marino ( If you can’t tell, I’m rather partial of Peter Marino’s work)…
CHANEL SPRING CLEAN
This past January, CHANEL SOHO at 139 Spring street was tagged with some hot pink spray paint. Like the people of Nylon pointed out, it still looks rather chic. But, Chanel isn’t having it, first boarding up the art project, and now it seams to have spurred into a Spring-Summer 2010 Spring Clean. Perhaps, our favorite architect, Peter Marino (profile post coming soon) will be doing a nice little store redesign, I guess we’ll have to wait for a Fall 2010 reveal. But, it looks promising since Chanel has taken up temporary residence across the street at 134 Spring in a 10,700 sq. ft. duplex space…
via: Racked NY
