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Balenciaga launches first in-house eyewear line with Dover Street Market

Balenciaga is kicking off the new year with the launch of an eyewear collection, available exclusively at Dover Street Market stores in the US, UK, Japan, Singapore and China, as well as on Dover Street Market’s ecommerce. With prices ranging between 290 US dollars (230 pounds) and 570 US dollars (450 pounds), the collection includes both...

Retail

In Pictures: Dover Street Market opens Los Angeles store

Four years after its debut in London, Dover Street Market has opened its sixth location in Los Angeles. The concept store, founded by Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and her husband Adrian Joffe, is best known for its resemblance with an art gallery. Designed by Kawakubo herself, the LA location spans over 15,000 square feet and features corners...

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Store, café or art gallery? The rise and rise of the concept store

These aren’t easy times for brick and mortar fashion retailers. As e-commerce grows and consumer behavior changes, the US has seen over 7,000 store closings in 2017. Investment bank Credit Suisse even predicts 25 percent of American shopping malls to close by 2022. The UK is no different, with an average of 16 high street stores closing every...

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Comme des Garçons set to launch new brand online

Comme des Garçons has revealed that this July they will be launching a new brand. The Dover Street Market fans are about to have something new to die for. News of the new collection was first announced on WWD. Dover Street Market director and Comme des Garçons chief executive Adrian Joffe confirmed that a new brand would be coming at the opening...

Culture

Stüssy partners with Dover Street Market for tshirt retrospective

US founded streetwear brand Stüssy will launch a retrospective exhibition at Dover Street Market from August 28. Exhibiting eight t-shirts with graphics from the brand’s archive, the retrospective will explore the significance of the t-shirt as a means of communication. “The t-shirt is such an important past of Stüssy’s past and present and it...

Retail

Dover Street Market to open in LA

Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo has announced that the latest Dover Street Market will be launched in Los Angeles, expected to open in March 2018. In an exclusive interview with WWD, Adrian Joffe, Kawakubo’s husband and CEO of Comme des Garçons International and DSM said the decision to open in LA “just felt like the right time and the right...

Retail

Dover Street Market rumoured to be relocating

Designer independent concept Dover Street Market is reportedly in advanced talks to relocate to Burberry’s former headquarters in Haymarket in London’s West End, according to Property Week. The luxury fashion retail store owned by Rei Kawakubo of Japanese brand Comme de Garçons currently occupies 17-18 Dover Street, owned by Lord Alan Sugar’s...

Apparel

Moynat to 'pop up' in New York's Dover Street Market

Days after Moynat, one of the oldest trunk makers in France, opened its first store outside Paris in London, Mayfair came news of a pop-up store opening in the US. Making its first move into the US market, Moynat is set to open a pop-up store in New York's Dover Street Market. The French luxury label will be joining the likes of J.W Anderson,...

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Dover Street Market to open in NYC

London's Dover Street Market is now heading to New York. The avant-garde multi-brand boutique, founded by Comme des Garcons and its founder Rei Kawakubo, is to open a seven storey, 20,000 sq ft international branch on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue at 30th Street. It is due to open in December 2013, Adrian Joffe, chief executive officer at Comme...