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4 Jul

Joanna Vargas Opens Recent L.A. Salon – WWD

Joanna Vargas Opens Recent L.A. Salon – WWD
Joanna Vargas opens a recent, stand-alone salon on Tuesday in Los Angeles. “In search of an area took probably a few 12 months, and construction has been eight months,” said the celebrity facialist, who’s closed the doors of her spa contained in the Sunset Tower Hotel after five years. “In Los Angeles, as you recognize, you've got to be obsessive about, ‘OK, where’s everybody going to park?’ And ‘What’s the neighborhood like?’” Vargas continued. She landed on central and buzzy West Hollywood; at roughly 5,000 square feet, the brand new salon is at 1107 North Kings Road. With high-vaulted ceilings, it occupies a constructing that was once a theater. It’s larger than her old space, which attracted about 50 customers a day. “Business has...
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2 Jul

Isabel Marant Opens Recent Stores in Tokyo and East Hampton

Isabel Marant Opens Recent Stores in Tokyo and East Hampton
Isabel Marant has expanded her retail fleet to 81 stores, with the opening of latest stores in Tokyo and East Hampton, Recent York. In Tokyo, Marant teamed up with Japanese artist Yutaka Sone to create Yellow House, which showcases the brand’s ready-to-wear and accessories collections. The focus of Yellow Home is a striking, large-scale artwork facade, drawing inspiration from Sone’s earlier series, “Power of Ten,” and “Obsidian” — two series that involve an intense study of obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly. Spanning greater than 2,152 square feet, the architecture conveys a passion for art and craftsmanship. Marant plays with the space, cutting out patches from the ceiling — as in the...
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27 Jun

Ulla Johnson Opens Organic, Modern Kelly Wearstler-designed Flagship in L.A.

Ulla Johnson Opens Organic, Modern Kelly Wearstler-designed Flagship in L.A.
Two years within the making, Ulla Johnson’s flagship in Los Angeles, designed by interior design star Kelly Wearstler, is anticipated to open in the approaching days. And it’s definitely worth the wait. “People need a reason to indicate up at retail,” said Johnson of the three,000-square-foot organic, modern, artisan furniture-filled store. With a secret garden, light-filled solarium and 16-foot indoor Brachychiton tree, it’s as transporting because the Recent York designer’s exotic haute handmade runway collections. “After I first began taking a look at spaces, I stayed at The Proper hotel in Santa Monica. And I just thought the design was quite incredible and that we were very like-minded,” Johnson said of Wearstler and her work for the posh hospitality group. “I recognized...
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22 Jun

Expanded ‘Africa Fashion’ Exhibit Opens at Brooklyn Museum –

Expanded ‘Africa Fashion’ Exhibit Opens at Brooklyn Museum –
Lexie Moreland/WWD A mannequin stands with head tilted, a knee jutting from the deep bias chiffon and woven fabric hemline of Papa Oppong’s Takari T, a T-shirt worn as a dress from the Ghanaian-born designer’s celebrated 2021 Yopoo collection, which evokes a Ghanaian woman’s life from birth to marriage to death. A “Ghana Must Go” bag — the ever-present blue, white and red reusable bags which have come to symbolize the forced migration of tens of millions of Ghanaians from Nigeria — sits on the ground next to the mannequin. It’s considered one of two looks from Oppong included within the Brooklyn Museum’s iteration of “Africa Fashion,” the blockbuster exhibition that opened last summer at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and which...
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