You know if we’re reporting about a sale it’s huge. Online menswear boutique, NewDandyism, is officially one year old. To celebrate, they’re, of course, throwing a huge sale.
So every item from MHI by Maharishi, Loomstate, Futura Heavy Industries, and a large selection from Nicholas K, SURFACE TO AIR Paris, Rittenhouse, Call of the Wild, Sons by Obedient Sons, Wood Wood, and YMC are 70% off!On top of that there is a ton of stuff up to 50% off.
This has been going on a few days already and it looks like things are moving quickly. No word yet on when it’s going to end. Check it out
here,
Opening on March 29th, the new Swarovski Flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo will features an incredible exterior facade designed by Tokujin Yoshioka entitled “Crystal Forest.” As Dezeen describes, “the facade is covered with stainless-steel mirror reliefs. It reflects the various scenes from the different angles and sparkles brightly like a ‘Crystal Forest’.”
The interior looks to be just as brilliant with walls painted to accentuate the reflections of crystals while “crystals on the floors that are buried in the stone like a fossil.”
Based in Copenhagen, Wood Wood embodies a laid back blend of underground and avant-garde. Over the last few years, an illustrious graphic profile has established Wood Wood as a driving force on the European advant-garde street scene. Also, Wood Wood contributes to numerous collaborations involving an international network of friends and like minded creators. The Spring/Summer ‘08 collection is titled “Wild Beast”. There are subtle safari influences and inspiration from their strong involvement in cycling sprinkled throughout the collection. NewDandyism has gotten their first delivery in so check it out here.
We previewed this collection a few weeks ago and now it has hit stores. Born in Paris in 2000, SURFACE TO AIR Paris is a creative studio and boutique operating in art, fashion, and communication. Their need for freedom and independence, and conditions for creativity, compelled them to organize around high multi-disciplinary activities and projects in the creative domains that interested them most. We’re just glad they decided to create some fashion. The Spring/Summer ‘08 collection is looking stellar. The ever evolving label continues bringing you the classics with their indelible twists. Find these items and more at
NewDandyism.
In April, Earnest Sewn, the premium denim purveyor, is devoting its Back Room space to the patriarchal eyewear company Moscot. The new installment will launch the two brands’ collaborative collection of co-branded Buffalo Horn Moscot Lemtosh frame specs. These one-of-a-kind styles are designed with real glass and colored lenses just as they were 70 years ago. And for bragging rights, each pair will also be numbered for authenticity. An Earnest Cut & Sew, 821 Washington Street, NYC.
The Comme des Garcons Guerilla Store L.A. opened its doors this weekend. Another hot retail spot for the city, where a lot has been happening in the past months in terms of stores already.
The new store is just like most of these guerilla stores around the globe, very raw in terms of design, minimal and nothing like any other store in its surroundings. On your next L.A. trip, make sure to stop by.
UK brand Garbstore is about to open its first flagship store in London later this month. Here we have first pictures of the store, for now only of the basement, but it’s already looking really good.
In recent years we finally see some brands turning their back on the otherwise mostly Marketing driven fashion market. They return to their core principles of making good product. The interview that we wrote about this morning with Visvim Designer Hiroki Nakamura nicely demonstrated that, and Garbstore is for sure a brand that belongs in the very same category.
More news on the soon to open Garbstore Flagship store London, once we get closer to the opening.
Head Porter is opening a new flagship store in Nagoya, Japan. This the the 3rd store after New York and Tokyo. It will be carrying both the Head Porter and the Head Porter Plus luggage collection.
Head Porter Nagoya
460-0008
Young-gu, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture 3-19-7
PROTECT4 Building 1F-2F
They will have the Snow White collection, that we reported about earlier on in store. Via Honeyee.
Here some interesting news via Designboom, that Milan based concept store 10 Corso Como will be opening a second location in Seoul. The new location will be opening its doors in March 2008. Up until now, they only had one location in Milan since 1991, housing a store, hotel, book shop, gallery and restaurant. Above you see a first shot of the exterior of the new store!
