GIVE GOOD GIFT – 2019
We are back with our holiday gift guide, lest you think that we are all serious all the time.
sacai gem for Dover Street Market 15-Year Anniversary
For Dover Street Market London’s 15th year anniversary, sacai will be releasing an exclusive piece from their “sacai gem” collection.
Two New Scents From Comme des Garçons
Earlier this month Comme des Garçons added two scents to its already formidable fragrances library, Odeur du Théâtre du Châtelet and Copper.
Op-Ed: How Barneys Lost Its Cool
Back in 2014, in an Op-Ed for the Business of Fashion, I rang the alarm about fashion stores losing their edge as tastemakers. I was mainly looking at Barneys, the iconic New York department store, as one that was losing its cache with the fashion-forward customer by becoming too commoditized. Fast-forward to 2019 and Barneys is now exploring bankruptcy. Theories abound as to what went wrong with the store, and there is not one single reason for Barneys possible demise – there is the crazy rent hike on its flagship, increased competition online, changing consumer tastes. But out of all commentators Lauren Sherman, of BoF nailed a big one, “Instead of owning cool, Barneys began chasing it.”
Introducing: Tobali Fragrances
It’s no secret that the current niche fragrance market is in great shape.
TakahiroMiyashitaTheSoloist Opens a Pop-Up Store in New York
Takahiro Miyashita of the Japanese menswear brand TheSoloist has always had affinity for New York. The only outpost for his first label, Number (N)ine, outside of Japan was here in TriBeCa. Much of it has to do with Al Albayan, who has been Miyashita’s right hand since the early N(N) days. Together, they have cooked up something for New York once again. RE:AL is TheSoloist is a pop-up shop, again in TriBeCa that opened last weekend and will run through July. The idea was to open a version of an airport gift shop. Miyashita is fond of traveling and not fond of diffusion lines, so doing something quite different but still familiar seemed like a fitting idea.
Aesop Opens New Store in Bath, England
As you probably know we love all things Aesop. And so every time a new store opens, we are happy to take a peek inside.
GIVE GOOD GIFT 2018
We know we are serious about what we write, but this is our annual non-serious post.
Aesop x Iris van Herpen: Atlas of Attraction
Here at StyleZeitgeist we are mostly sick of the tsunami of meaningless, and sometimes downright absurd, collaborations that have taken over the world.
Dover Street Market Opens in Los Angeles
Earlier this month, Dover Street Market, the mini-department store run by Comme des Garcons that has changed the nature of fashion retail, opened its sixth outpost in Los Angeles