“CDG is about finding new ways to do things, so not only with the collections of clothes, but also with our retail strategies, such as Dover Street Market, Trading Museum [a museum–retail store hybrid in Tokyo], Good Design Shop [CDG’s latest Tokyo venture, a collaboration with Japanese housewares designer Kenmei Nagaoka] and the guerrilla stores. The basic idea behind Dover Street Market was believing that by gathering various kinds of creation together, and giving free reign, the “fashion of now” would become chaotic, and within that chaos, through synergy and accident, each brand would shine more brightly and with a different power than when all alone.”
— Rei Kawakubo - WSJ.com
11:50 pm • 10 October 2011
