2 posts tagged "Adrian Joffe"
Market Conditions
Dover Street Market, Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons’ multibrand London megastore, is one of the globe’s best retail destinations. Comme CEO Adrian Joffe has hinted that one may be coming to New York in the next few years. But shoppers in Kawakubo’s native Japan got lucky first: Last month, the designer opened a six-story Dover Street Market flagship in Tokyo’s Ginza district. The store may connect, in an unprecedented move, to a Uniqlo flagship, but it maintains the air of “beautiful chaos” (in Joffe’s words) DSM always strives for. There are dedicated spaces for Junya Watanabe, Balenciaga, Rick Owens, Maison Martin Margiela, all of the CDG lines, Marni, and 10 Corso Como; those not headed to Tokyo anytime soon can rubberneck below.
Comme des Garçons at DSM Ginza.
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Reed Krakoff Visits Paris, Hopes To Stay
Reed Krakoff and his French wife Delphine love Paris. “I visit as often as I can,” he says. “I travel for inspiration because it’s my job, but even if I wasn’t working, I’d still be traveling.” He mentioned wanting to open a permanent Paris store one day. In the meantime, the designer (left, with Virginie Mouzat) and his brand’s new president, Valérie Hermann, created a showroom on three levels of the Galerie Karsten Greve in the Marais to introduce Parisians to his new collection. “I’ve kind of done everything in reverse,” Krakoff muses. “After 25 years designing for others, I really wanted to do my own thing and use all my experience to do it well.” Among those there to take it in: Sarah Lerfel, who buys Krakoff for Colette; Olympia Le-Tan and her illustrator papa Pierre Le-Tan, who has done projects for Krakoff at Coach; jewelry designer Harumi Klossowski, Balthus’ daughter; Comme des Garçons’ Adrian Joffe; fashion publishers Olivier Zahm of Purple and Ezra Petronio from Self Service; and Alexis Mabille, who didn’t let the fact of his impending haute couture show keep him away.