The store houses Valentino’s womenswear, menswear and accessories lines across three floors where grey marble coexists with black steel, aluminium and brass. Two other Valentino stores (one in Aspen, Colorado, and the other in Miami’s Design Distric) are scheduled to open this year in the USA, a market that accounts for approximately 25% of the label’s global sales.

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The 40,000 square-foot store will be Topshop’s second largest retail space in the world after the 90,000 square-foot London flagship on the corner of Oxford Street and Regent Street. Its inauguration will mark the expansion of Topshop/Topman in the US, with new stores planned to open in San Diego and Washington in 2014, and in Houston and Atlanta in 2015. Globally, Topshop trades from around 500 stores, while Topman trades from about 400, while 15 new stores trading both brands are planned to open over the next year in eight countries, including Russia, Turkey and Vietnam.

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The full print campaign (photographed by Max Vadukul and styled by Alexis Roche) will be unveiled in February 2014 alongside the release of a short film by Jean-François Julien during New York Fashion Week.

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The duality of sartorial inspirations in the GANT Rugger Spring/Summer 2014 collection can be seen in the blended yarns such as cotton/linen for ties and wool/linen in blazers, and is at its most evident in a bomber jacket made from pastel blue suede with contrasting bright orange lining. The collection also reveals a focus on relaxed knitwear (namely jersey sweatshirts) and on experimenting with floral prints (including tonal printed lilies) and textured fabrics (such as reflective printed nylon).

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The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund was established in 2003 to help emerging American fashion designers. Over the last decade, the scheme has awarded $3.8 million USD to 30 design companies, including 3.1 Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Billy Reid, Derek Lam, Joseph Altuzarra, Patrik Ervell, Prabal Gurung, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, Thakoon and Thom Browne.

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The design of the store mirrors the one used in the recently inaugurated Shanghai store and is centred around the idea of a clean, white box punctuated with noble materials such as Italian white Carrara marble, black Nero Marquina marble and polished bronze. To establish a contrast with these heavy materials and provide a feeling of lightness and transparency, hanging glass unites and floating shelves are used throughout the interiors.
Alexander Wang currently operates 5 shop-in-shops in Japan. The opening of the freestanding store in Aoyama brings the number of the brand’s international stores to 16, while the Alexander Wang e-Commerce site ships to more than 50 countries.

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Visitors can access the centre from a large plaza leading to two entrances that cut the geometric facade along a diagonal axis. On entering the building, a sculptural pleated interior leads people through the atrium into the main foyer. In addition to a theatre that will provide a regular schedule of activities, the centre also features a restaurant, a media lab, a lecture theatre and an art gallery.

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As expected of Thom Browne, the interiors of the apartment are marked by an apparent simplicity that, on close inspection, reveals a subtly understated elegance. In addition to his own creations, Browne worked with architectural designer David Biscaye of Biscaye Frères to fill his home with a number of twentieth-century furniture pieces by designers and brands such as Salterini, Jacques Adnet, Dunbar, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Christofle, Steuben, Baccarat, Paul McCobb, Gio Ponti and Mathieu Matégot.

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