Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons goes where fashion’s vanguard has yet to venture, opening her highly anticipated seven-story concept store, an offshoot of the London original, in a landmark, neoclassical Kips Bay building that once housed Touro College and New York School of Applied Design for Women. A transparent elevator transports shoppers from one artsy floor to another, allowing for...
IN PREVIEW. Cutting edge-fashion Babylon spread across seven floors. London, Tokyo, and now New York. Wanted to shape a neighborhood, so naturally landed in the fashion no man’s land of Murray Hill. Former 1909 Touro College now holds avant-garde labels gathered together by Comme des Garçons mastermind Rei Kawakubo. Raf Simons, Junya Watanabe, Alber Elbaz, it's all here and it's hotter than hell.