Our favorite online haunt, Highsnobiety, has a comprehensive first look at much of the interior of the re-modeled Colette in Paris. We covered this whole story when the lifestyle boutique closed less than 2 months ago. The final result, unsurprisingly, looks amazing! There is a Tee Box and a sneaker wall…to read all about it and see their amazing photos click HERE .
We’re bitches about our blogroll -it’s at the bottom of the page and only includes those who we truly love. Since we’ve heard about Soho lifestyle boutique (one of our favorites) Kirna Zabete preparing to go virtual, we’ve had the site on our virtual retail therapy list. Well, today you can actually shop for some of your sartorial favorites brilliantly edited by owners, Beth Buccini and Sarah Easley. From lots of Lanvin and Thakoon dresses to Giambattista Valli pants, and several items from Rick Owens. You will also find a selection of shoes, accessories and signature lifestyle products -some exclusive to KZ. Naturally, they can’t let the world in on everything because the full KZ experience can only be had by visiting the candy red-accented boutique with the wall of cascading shoes, must have bag that is totally worth 2 months of rent and that’s before you even descend to downstairs where more goodies will make your Amex quiver in fear.
As you know from our previous post, Colette is currently under construction but what you haven’t seen are the hot shit window designs created by Anthony Burrill for the re-facing stint. They are graphic coverings with an obvious construction theme and will remain up until the moderations are over at the end of August. Burrill also has a show planned at the store early next year. And as for the temporary outpost in a truck parked outside -things didn’t quite work out, see StyleFile for the full story.
There’s just no denying the power of the Topshop -its a high street fashion force that is undeniable. If I had a penny for every amateur blogger photo online of the billboard where the shop will open in Soho, NYC this fall…well, I’d have about a dollar. This September the coveted shop will offer premium denim to its patrons including brands like MOTO and exclusives from LA-based Ditto, Joe’s Jeans, My Lovely and Radcliffe. There will also be limited edition collections for Topshop only by Sass & Bide, J Brand and also Ditto’s. Photo of Sass & Bide for Topshop courtesy of Vogue UK.
This is recently-opened Liberty of London’s first stand-alone store on Sloane Street. The nearly 2,000 square foot store was designed by Paris-based architects Pierre Beucler and Jean-Christophe Poggiolo of the firm Architects Associe, who have previously worked with Comme des Garcons. There will be two floors selling Liberty of London products, including leather accessories, jewelry, swimwear, men’s collections and a generously long scarf bar. There are Orient Express-styled train seat dressing rooms and overall aesthetic is what you’d expect from a luxury accessories brand boutique. It’s quite the modernized leap from its tudor-style, wood-beamed-interior ancestor. 197 Sloane Street, London.
Sarah Lerfel of famed lifestyle Parisian boutique, Colette, refers to it as a “lifting.” Masamichi Katayama will be the Japanese architectural plastic surgeon which we hear will move the streetwear down to the ground floor and the beauty section upstairs alongside fashion. The first floor art gallery and basement water bar will remain in the same place but will be cosmetically re-done. This is the first closing of the boutique in its 11 years but a mini version will remain outside the store selling Colette classics and limited-edition sportswear. Colette Superette will be in front of 213 rue Saint-Honore.
YSL has now launched their Edition 24 area at Dover Street Market in London which will stay up for an indefinite period. The huge launch party last Thursday brought out Claudia Schiffer who paid homage to the late Mr. Laurent by wearing a vintage blouse and skirt from the pre-fall YSL collection. Edition 24 is on the third floor of DSM with a limited edition YSL jacket available in turquoise and red which were designed especially for the store.
The Colette pop-up shop sponsored by Gap Inc. has NYers in a frenzy of anticipation for this September. Another store collaboration beginning in September will be taking place in Tokyo when Louis Vuitton and Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons open a store together. The shop will be a remodelled CdG store that will be open for three months. Amongst other items, they will sell six exclusive LV-monogrammed bags the idea of which has some Commes purists in an uproar.
Although my love for NYC is deep and real, upon my first visit to Paris I became a bit envious after seeing two places -no, not the Louvre, although it is a close third- Colette and Maria Luisa. Both boutiques inspired me to open my own lifestyle store with unique clothing labels. Maria Luisa has now moved after residing in its Rue Cambon address for 20 years to 7 Rue Rouget de L’Isle. Owner Maria Luisa Poumaillou decided on the move just a few blocks away so that she could house her main store of young styles (Mixte) and her shoe store in the same space. She claims the clean white, mirrored space “makes it easier for everyone to understand what we’ve always been doing, which is offering avant-garde fashion that is also somehow wearable, but always different.”
The Chanel boutique inside the Dover Street Market is open for business and will be in store until 25.June. The collection covers the five floors with pieces available from iconic to limited edition from the Metiers d’Arts Paris - Londres Collection.
Also, available online at the DSM website are Energy C Parfums from Comme des Garcons. We know how the hot and hazy can result in summertime lazy. While that may be nice on appropriate Sundays, late afternoon lagging is unacceptable in a city like NY demanding attendance to openings followed by al fresco suppers. Carry one of these in your purse for a quick pick me up in the scent of lemon or grapefruit (lime is out of stock at publication time). I have always preferred citrus scents during the warm season. Click HERE to purchase.
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