Famous and expensive boutiques of the world

Lucien Pellat-Finet, Осака

Hipsters all over the world adore Lucien Pella-Finet for his bully knitwear with skulls and hemp leaves. His aesthetics were especially close to the harsh descendants of the samurai: the designer opened his third store in Osaka. When designing it, the architect Kengo Kuma took the image of a climbing plant as a basis. The honeycomb structure of plywood “grows” through all three floors.

Balenciaga’s new Parisian boutique is unlike any other, selling exclusively men’s clothing. The interior of the store also has a clearly masculine character: strict geometric shapes, clear lines, no frills, frills and frills. The most interesting thing is that the author of all this splendor is a woman! The boutique was designed by French artist Dominique-Gonzalez Forster, whose installations have already appeared in the Tate Modern in London.

Belgian fashion avant-garde and provocateur Dries van Noten is true to himself: for the Parisian boutique, he chose the premises of the former art gallery Helene Leloux, which specialized in the art of wild African tribes. And he did not redo anything – he just added antique furniture, carpets and a few paintings. All ingenious is simple!

Designing a boutique in the bohemian Marais quarter, designers from the Belgian studio SAQ have unleashed their passion for high technology. The walls, lined with antique wood, are built with a variety of LCD monitors, on which images of clothing replace each other. Not a shop, but an installation on the theme of ladies’ wardrobe!

One of the most interesting concept stores in East Berlin is located in the building of the former post office. Designer Livio Graciotin, not afraid to scare away glamorous clients, carefully preserved metal shelves, dusty lamps and the overall gloomy atmosphere. By the way, Pastpresent is not only a store, but also a laboratory for multimedia projects.

The interior of the Lanvin boutique in New York would surely have pleased the great Jeanne Lanvin. Modest and tasteful. Strict black and white colors, showcases in the spirit of the early XNUMXth century, Art Deco lamps, vintage photographs on the walls, zebra skins on the floor. All this – in the fashionable Upper East Side, on Madison Avenue dearly loved by fashionistas. The boutique occupies three whole floors – there is plenty to turn around!

The boutique of the Spanish shoe brand Camper in Seville is the creation of the same Tokujin Yoshioka. (The hyperactive Japanese is in demand not only at home, but also in Europe.) Knowing about the firm’s passion for avant-garde design, the visitor from the East did not regret red paint and shiny metal, and replaced boring shoe shelves with unusual storage systems of his own design. With their fluid forms, they are more like abstract sculptures than furniture.

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka is not looking for easy ways. While designing pleats Please boutique (one of the lines of the Issey Miyake fashion house), he did not play around with the theme of folds in the interior, although this idea seemed to suggest itself. Instead, Yoshioka sheathed the walls of the store with sheets of aluminum. The metal “second skin” smooths out corners and irregularities, and the play of light on shiny surfaces brings additional intrigue to the interior.

The main highlight of the Precinct 5 multi-brand boutique, designed by the Dutch design bureau Kuub & Pieter Kool, is a modular structure of open shelves and glazed display cases suspended from the ceiling. It is easy to disassemble and assemble in a new configuration, changing the interior beyond recognition. The structure is a bit like prison bars, and for good reason: the boutique is located in the building of the former police station.

The walls tilted at unimaginable angles and the intricate layout of this shopping center evoke associations with connoisseurs of modern architecture with the Jewish Museum in Berlin. The answer is simple: these two buildings have the same author – the venerable deconstructivist Daniel Libeskind. The spectacular building with facets like a quartz crystal is very spacious: the area of ​​three floors is 46 square meters. meters. Inside there are boutiques of luxury brands, art galleries and expensive restaurants. A paradise for shopaholics with aesthetic inclinations!

The famous architect and prominent biker Peter Marino has been collaborating with Louis Vuitton for several years. But in designing a boutique in London, the enfant terrible of the luxury industry has surpassed himself. The windows are covered with gilded mesh, and the interior is decorated with works of the most famous (and expensive) contemporary artists. Pictured is an installation by Gilbert and George.

Having achieved everything in the fashion world that is possible, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana decided to start supporting young talents. Dolce & Gabbana’s first multi-brand boutique presents 22 promising new brands not yet known to the general public. The innovative collections are housed in an emphatically conservative interior: crystal and red velvet all around. We sing a song to the madness of the brave!

Location obliges! The boutique in the new Crystals shopping center must look unusual, but not frivolous – to match the outstanding architecture of Libeskind. London-based design studio Sybarite coped with the difficult task quite well. Curved walls, illuminated niches for shoes and bags, convex and concave fiberglass “bubbles” – a lot of eccentricity and no kitsch! 

Prepared by RUBEN MODIGLIANI and LEA ANUSHINSKI