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Bullseye Bodega by Target
(10 September 2008) - We were pleasantly surprised by Target's Bullseye Bodega pop-up concept, featuring guest-designer clothing, accessories and objects at Target's usual low prices. Four Manhattan locations will be open for four days only—12-15 September 2008—though much of the merchandise will be available online and in Target stores later on. Taking a page from the original Bodega shop in Boston, Bullseye Bodega mimics the traditional NYC corner...
Erik Schedin
(04 September 2008) - Erik Schedin is an online shop run by the eponymous proprietor out of Sweden. He specializes in selling an extremely select collection of seemingly unrelated products. The only connecting thread between them is that each item exhibits a distinctly clean, understated design. The project started four years ago when Schedin, then a student at Beckmans College of Design, began producing his own footwear. The...
Chocolate Covered Sweets and Gifts
(03 September 2008) - Chocolate Covered Sweets and Gifts in San Francisco's Noe Valley is the manifestation of its passionate and slightly obsessive-compulsive owner, Jack Epstein. One half of the small shop is dedicated to chocolate, and the other to an assortment of small gift boxes and tins. The gift boxes are often covered in beautiful Japanese art papers, and the tins—several hundred of them—feature the name of...
21 Mercer Nike Sportswear Collection
(18 August 2008) - Nike officially announced the opening of its first Nike Sportswear retail store in the world today. Located at 21 Mercer in NYC's SoHo and opening its doors this Thursday, 22 August 2008, this newest and top tier Nike shop will be the only location globally to carry the complete Nike Sportswear NSW collection. But what really sets the location apart are a few products...
Domison Furniture Boutique
(09 July 2008) - Domison is a modern furniture boutique that opened just over a month ago in Montreal's Plateau district. The brainchild of brother and sister design team Thien and My Ta Trung, their aim is to offer well-designed aesthetically-pleasing home furnishing to design-savvy consumers. I had a chance to sit down with My recently to ask her a few questions about the store and its concept....
FAVA Store
(01 July 2008) - A new hybrid retail concept mixing fashion and art, walking into FAVA (FAshion/Vintage/Art) feels more like walking into somebody's warmly-lit living room. At a recent opening, a live acoustic blues guitarist set the tone while strangers wandered shoulder-to-shoulder, inspecting eccentric dresses and looking at art for sale. In spite of my doubts, I was quickly reassured when Meda, the owner and founder of the...
Tretorn NY Store and Gullwing Collection
(26 June 2008) - Along with the recent opening of Tretorn's first NYC store, their recently announced Autumn/Winter 2008 collection, called Gullwing, is full of shoes riffing on the preppy classic in ways we can get behind. The Skymra, for example, swaps out laces for asymmetrical elastic bands, transforming the classic silhouette of the tennis shoe into an avant-slip-on. The canvas version ($70) in bright yellow with a...
Endossa Collective Retail
(12 June 2008) - Like a brick-and-mortar version of Etsy, São Paulo's Endossa is an innovative approach to retail geared for micro-entrepreneurs. Providing all the benefits and support of a physical store (including software to help vendors manage their products carried in the shop), Endossa rents cubby-like boxes out to upcoming designers within their space on one of the most famous streets in the city. They don't charge...
Ikan Wireless Scanner
(14 May 2008) - The world is filled with technology designed to make lives easier, but many are more nuisance than time-saver. The recently-launched Ikan, however, proves to be both effortless in use and hugely efficient in everyday life. The system consists of a small kitchen appliance about the size of a toaster (shown at right). Once registered, the unit scans barcodes on empty products as you finish...
Assembly New York
(29 April 2008) - by Jason Wilson This week, Greg Armas, former master of L.A.'s Scout, braves the NYC retail wilderness equipped with an aptly named bridle, Assembly. An avid vintage collector and former gallerist, Armas compiled an attractive collection of classic and contemporary men's clothing, antiques and vinyl in a bold attempt to disseminate a style rather than singular must-haves. Ksubi fishnet-knit sweatshirts blend perfectly next to...
Mastihashop
(28 April 2008) - Recently opened on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the Mastihashop is the Greek company's first U.S. boutique. The shop specializes in all manner of products made with Mastiha, an all natural antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial resin which can only be harvested from the sap of evergreen bushes found exclusively in the southern part of the Greek Island of Chios. In use for 2,500 years as...
Roden Gray Boutique
(28 April 2008) - One of my new favorite stores in Vancouver (well one of my new favorites anywhere, actually) is Roden Gray, a recent addition to Vancouver's trendy Gastown neighborhood. Roden Gray maintains a carefully-selected range of clothing, shoes, bags and accessories from labels that bring sophistication to casual menswear such as Wings + Horns, Filson, Nice Collective and Obedient Sons. My particular favorites on a recent...
ACNE New York
(28 March 2008) - If you didn't know that ACNE stands for "Ambition to Create Novel Expressions," than you also proabably weren't aware that the Swedish label is a multi-disciplinary company consisting of much more than impeccably cut jeans in amazing fabrics. With films, furniture design, architecture and their own world-class publication, it's lifestyle branding that we can actually get behind. Opened yesterday in New York City, their...
Paris Stores: April 77 and Jerome Dreyfuss
(14 March 2008) - by Jason Wilson April 77 Fashion and record label April 77 has just taken up residence in a retail space right down the block from the company's headquarters. Designer Brice Partouche tapped interiors guru Steven Thomas after reading a book on Biba, the '70s retail monolith that Thomas also designed. The circular space recalls a turntable with its dark vinyl-esque floors and gleaming steel...
Brecho Luxo
(29 February 2008) - Only a little more than six months old, Brecho Luxo is causing somewhat of a sensation with the fashion cult here in São Paulo. Founded by Paula Reboredo and Gil Franca, who run the São Paulo street fashion blog Freakstyle with journalist Maira Goldschmidt (that we told you about last year), opened the vintage store with a fabulously edited selection of clothes and accessories...
Papelera Palermo
(20 February 2008) - by Sheena Sood Papelera Palermo, a space devoted to anything and everything paper, is a place in Buenos Aires for gifts, supplies, and inspiration. Founded in 1994 as a "space dedicated to paper and it's infinite possibilities," its home is on Honduras Street, right off of the trendy Plaza Cortazar in Palermo Soho, and it's a must-stop for artists, book collectors and anyone attracted...
theAnemix at Harrods
(19 February 2008) - If you were impressed with the holographic effects used at Diesel's runway show last year, you'd be just as taken with the neat 3-D lighting window displays Chilean group theAnemix created especially for Harrods' in-store "Senses" campaign currently running in London. (Click images for detail.) Architects and designers Ximena Munoz and Paulina Villalobos studied bioluminescence before coming up with their LED lighting system, which...
Dense Records
(06 February 2008) - One of the best record stores I've visited in recent times is the centrally located music store, Dense, in Berlin. Their selection is impeccable, their staff friendly and they know their music. I've visited my share of music stores around the world—including Ameoba in L.A., Tower in Tokyo, Kim's in New York, and the recently dissolved Smallfish in London—and I have to say Dense...
Nike Be True City Collection Update: Release Date and U.S Locations
(05 February 2008) - Nike continues to keep us on our toes. The Be True City Collection has undergone some last minute changes and CH has all the insider info including release date and retail locations. If you want to represent your city, you are going to have to embrace a new color: New York - Pine Green (pictured above) Los Angeles - Orange Blaze (pictured left) Sao...
Just Opened: Oak
(01 February 2008) - By Christina PanasJust five years after opening their flagship Williamsburg boutique, and on the heels of a Park Slope outpost, Oak co-owners Louis Terline and Jeff Madalena are making that first East River crossing with sleek new digs in NoLita, a shop that opens officially on Monday. "It happened quickly," says Terline, when asked how long the latest store had been in the works. "This...
Reed Barrow: Monument to an Amaranth
(31 January 2008) - Another experiment in reinventing the screen, New York-based sculptor Reed Barrow's LED chandelier, dubbed "Monument to an Amaranth," functions as a 360 degree display, playing a 12-minute video loop of abstract imagery. The teched-out fixture is a departure from Reed's other recent work, which tends toward absurd cultural interpretations (like a life-size werewolf sleeping in the web of a phosphorescent dream-catcher). Monument also has...
Recanto do Alto Jardins
(14 January 2008) - When Ana Strumpf moved her store Garimpo and Fuxique to Jardins, a cosmopolitan São Paulo shopping district just blocks away from the busier, pricier and more famous Rua Oscar Freire, she eyed the lot of empty stores around the corner from hers and had an idea. Bringing in designers to fill those spots had the potential to create a new commercial area. She got...
A.P.C. Surplus, Brooklyn
(11 January 2008) - We were among the excited first today to check out A.P.C.'s latest store (and the second of their outlets worldwide) today in Brooklyn. Called A.P.C. Surplus for its flat 60% discounted prices, the Williamsburg storefront is housed in a beautiful former bank with plenty of rustic charm (i.e. it looks as if it recently caught fire). At only 600 square feet, the space feels...
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