Comme des Garçons
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A shop that reminds of a white egg; you get there through an aluminium tunnel (an original project by the Future Systems architect firm) and almost miss it: there are no traditional shop windows, just a door that looks like a garage entrance. The tunnel was custom built for Comme des Garçons at a British dockyard. Just like the clothes, the shop walls are also a real experience of textures: from white glazed steel to the roughness of sandpaper and the five metre stainless steel perfume shelf.
Rei Kawakubo was actually the first one to open a fashion shop in the flourishing art gallery district of Chelsea; she commented on the choice of location, so far from the traditional shopping routes, by saying: "I think it will become a destination in itself". Even the changing room is quite an experience: you're not likely to encounter so much space anywhere else; the architecture of Comme des Garçons clothes demands a correspondingly impressive room.
520 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues), Chelsea
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