The Week in Racked: Topshop's Big Broadway Eye Candy, Getting Ruffian at Earnest Sewn, Baby Phat Falls Off Prince, The Shave New York Trims Up Elizabeth, DVF Wraps Around the Block, DVF Sale Getting 4,000 More Pieces, Début Debuts on Mulberry, One Year for JC Penney, Watts on Smith Throws in the Towel, Mr. Pink Packs Up on West 16th, Anne Fontaine Takes to Madison, Red Hook Ikea Mania, Babeland Sets Park Slope Abuzzing and Jeter's 24 Hour Fitness Gets Into Gear on Fifth.
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Soho: If you went to the trouble to erect a massive wall of plywood over your construction site, why not make the vertical space do double duty as a giant advertisement? Topshop has seen fit to cover its storefront at 478 Broadway with an image of supermodel and guest designer Kate Moss reclining in the surf in a sparkly gown. A sign that the icon will be present at the store's opening in October? One can hope.
· Storecasting: Topshop Goes Wooden on Broadway [Racked]
· RackedWire: Topshop Sets a Date, Cartoons Cover Uniqlo [Racked]
· First Look: Inside Topshop Soho [Racked]
Kate Moss for Agent Provocateur in Soho via Sinceagain/Racked Flickr Pool
Local
· Armani on how he stays so freakin' tan [The Cut]
· Fifth Ave Vuitton store brightens up a rainy day [PSFK]
· Reports on the Varvatos and Adam sample sales [The Shophound]
· ...and on the Twinkle by Wenlan sale [Eep! Ramblings]
National
· Tracey Reese joins the party, launches e-commerce site [SCS]
· Outerwear company Nau was "ahead of its time" [NY Times]
· Another Hawks by Geren Ford dress pops up on UrbanOutfitters.com [nitro:licious]
FRENCHVILLE—The first of Agent Provocateur's new stylishly porn-y video ads featuring Kate Moss debuted today. The set of six ads, collectively titled 'White Wedding' will premiere online over the next six days. Hiding behind the guise of their French name, somehow AP can say this with a straight face: "White Wedding' is a groundbreaking exploration in extending a narrative advertising campaign to also create an experimental film series. Responding to a six-part script treatment written by Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corré, Nick Knight and a stellar cast including Kate Moss and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have created six striking campaign stills that storyboard "the demise of a bride's 'big day' and serialise the unravelling of the religious organisation behind it...The result is an intriguing set of stylish shorts depicting Kate Moss running the gamut from demure virgin bride to dangerous, Lynchian siren that suggests new applications and creative potential for fashion film in advertising." Uh huh. Shorter story: Kate Moss is in her undies. [RackedWire]
An Semi-Important reminder from Verve in the West Village. >>"Rogan Gregory's capsule designs for Target may not have generated the same frenzy as the Kate Moss for Topshop collection, but the collection certainly has a fan in Barneys New York. Julie Gilhart, the store's fashion director, has worked her magic by persuading Target to launch the Rogan for Target collection at her Manhattan and Beverly Hills flagships in advance of their launch at the superstore. The collection, which marks the first time Barneys has carried Target merchandise, will arrive in New York and Los Angeles on May 8 and 15, respectively, and will be carried on the Co-op floor. The pieces will only be in stock for five days-after that, shoppers will have to wait for the mass debut." [FWD]
It's been a big year for New York City retail (and not just because Racked was born in March). This week, we'll relive the glorious highlights and gruesome lowlights, beginning today, with the Year in Lines. Other things we'll recap: The most notable closing, biggest openings, lamest openings and the most important retail stretches the city has to offer. So, let's begin.
Waiting to get their hands on Kate Moss for Topshop at Barneys
On line, in line—whichever expression you choose, New Yorkers have done a whole lot of waiting this year. Here, the top five massive and ridiculous queues:
5) Kate Moss for Topshop at Barneys: You waited out of love for Kate, love for Topshop, or love of eBaying. When the doors to Barneys opened, everyone rushed in to find...a pitiful display of overpriced tank tops, dresses and skinny jeans. Now that the hype's died down, prices on the clothing have been slashed at Barneys and Opening Ceremony. Guess that was a waste of time.
4) Phillip Lim at Uniqlo: Members of the press got first dibs on designer Phillip Lim's collection for Uniqlo. The public was left to fight over the few cute plaid dresses and slouchy shirts left on the racks. All was gone in a matter of hours.
Well that was short-lived: Kate Moss' collection is majorly discounted at Barneys. We also saw pieces marked way down at Opening Ceremony. Is anyone still buying this stuff? [Barneys]
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