Comme des Garcons
(16 vote, 76.25% worth checking out)
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5-2-1 Minami-aoyama
Minato-ku
Tokyo
Japan
coordinates: 35.6639938,139.7141571
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Building names(s): Comme des Garcons
Architect/Designer: Future Systems
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Show on map & checkout the other sites nearby 5-2-1 Minami-aoyama
Minato-ku
Tokyo
Japan
coordinates: 35.6639938,139.7141571
open coordinates in google maps
open coordinates in apple map
Building names(s): Comme des Garcons
Architect/Designer: Future Systems
Images:
Completion date: 1998
function(s): fashion, retail
credentials/awards: 2009 February BOM, BOM
Is French for “like the boys”
Fashion Designer: Rei Kawakubo, who is also its sole owner.
Opening hours: 11am – 8pm
Getting there:
Chiyoda, Ginza, Hanzomon lines to Omote-sando (exits A4)
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3 comments/reviews
LT says:
Feb 16, 2009
Comme des Garçons opened the first of their ‘Guerrilla’ stores in 2004 in Berlin. The Guerrilla stores’ aim is to only be open for one year and to spend a minimal amount of money on the interiors. The stores are also to be located away from fashionable hubs and districts of a city. Comme des Garçons Guerrilla stores have been opened (and subsequently closed) in Reykjavik, Warsaw, Helsinki, Singapore, Stockholm and Athens, amongst others.
In 2008, Comme des Garçons opened the LA ‘Guerrilla’ store at Suite 106/ 125 West 4th Street, Los Angeles. And one In Glasgow at 10 Ruthven Lane, Glasgow G12 9BG.
for more information on the Guerrilla Stores.
FODORS review says:
Feb 16, 2009
Sinuous low walls snake through Rei Kawakubo’s flagship store, a minimalist labyrinth that houses the designer’s signature clothes, shoes, and accessories. Staff members will do their best to ignore you, but that’s no reason to stay away from one of Tokyo’s funkiest retail spaces.
Future Systems Quote says:
Aug 5, 2008
Tokyo, two horizontal concrete slabs of a dumb existing building are joined with two ribbons of conical-curved, inclined glass offering a simple liquid entrance where they converge. The glass is covered with a layer of translucent blue dots which act as a filter between inside and outside. At night the movement of people within the shop creates a curiosity for the pedestrian passing the façade.