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    Pop-Up Stores

    The asymmetrical trend that’s dominating Spring 2009 fashion week has nothing on the pop-up store. This week one can shop the shows and then bounce to Target Bullseye Bodegas, which carries products from their designer collaboration connections.  Then Gap and Parisian favorite Colette have come together to offer a variety of limited-edition merchandise.  

    To celebrate fashion week, Racked.com reports, OAK has added designers who created limited-edition pieces evoking the idea of bondage and kink. (Woo-hoo, but I’ve never even been to OAK.) 
    Then Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton are opening a store together for three months starting in September, where they’ll offer six bags designed by Rei Kawakubo in Vuitton’s signature monogram pattern. (Opps, that’s only in Tokyo. But you get the picture.)

    Having a hard time digesting it all? Here’s a handy info sheet to make sure you don’t miss out on any of these now-they’re-here-now-they’re-not stores.
    September 12 to September 15 from 10am to 10pm daily
    Midown: 101 57th Street at 6th Ave
    Union Square: 813 Broadway between 11th and 12th Ave
    SoHo: 489 Broome Street b/w Wooster and W. Broadway
    East Village: 325 Bowery at 2nd St.
    September 6th to October 12th from 10am to 9pm Mon-Sat and 11am to 7pm on Sun.
    Midtown: 5th Ave and 54th Street (adjacent to Gap’s flagship store)

    OAK
    24 Bond St.
    12pm-4pm
    Monday September 8th

    The after party will be thrown at:
    The Eagle
    554 W. 28th St. at 11th Ave.
    10 p.m.-12 p.m. cocktails by Belvedere
    Music by DFA’s Justin Miller & Runaway (Marcos Cabral and Jacques Renault)
    RSVP: deeper@oaknyc.com
    Dover Street Market in Aoyama Tokyo
    The bags will only be available upon order, which is only to be placed at the “Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons store”. No telephone or Internet orders will be taken. In return, customers will receive a certificate inside a special card holder in Louis Vuitton’s traditional natural leather, embossed with the Louis Vuitton at Comme des Garçons signature. Only several months later (6 to 9 months!) will their bag be delivered to their chosen Louis Vuitton store. — Talk about not fronting inventory!
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    Free YSL Tote Bags

    Early last week, news emerged that Yves Saint Laurent will be handing out thousands of free bags come Saturday, Sept. 6. However, all the information seemed to be confusing and vague. Calls to their PR office were not helpful either. Rest asured folks, if YSL is giving out anything for free I am gong to get the information.

    Thanks to YSL deep throat, I got undisclosed details to help you (and me) get a free tote bag. So, limited edition cotton totes bags, designed by Stefano Pilati, are being given away  with a “Manifesto.” The “Manifesto” is a newspaper-style catalogue containing information about the collection .

    Well, more than 5,000 of these catalogues and totes will be distributed for FREE throughout Paris, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The big question is when and where. Apparently, one of the secret locations is infront of the uptown YSL store (855 Madison Avenue) from 1:45pm to 3:45pm. I imagine you would probably luck out at the 57th Street location too, however I could not confirm more information.

    I can’t imagine what these bags will fetch on Ebay. Good luck and please pick up an extra bag for me. I’ll sadly be out of town for the weekend.

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    YSL Friends & Family Blah Blah

    Earlier this week. New York Magazine, had a bit about a Yves Saint Laurent friends and family sale. I couldn’t believe that my YSL sources let me down.

    So in a total panic I called this morning and got the full story. Turns out that the sale, like every other sale at Metropolitan Pavilion, is a close-out sale. A “jobber,” as the industry likes to call those who buy close-outs, purchased the old OUTLET stock and is hocking it at the Pavilion. YSL deep throat tells me that most of the merchandise is from Fall/Winter 2006 and some Summer 2006. He said if you were at the outlets in the past two years you saw it for less money and already passed it up.

    Those of you who need to get their hands on pseudo-vintage YSL can hustle down to the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th St. at 6th Ave). The sale runs Wed. 10/10 ( 8am to 6pm), Thurs., 10/11 (8am to 6pm) and Fri., 10/12 (8am to 1pm).

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