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"   Photo: Melissa Horn via NYMag  Last night, Zac Posen celebrated the opening of his first store. The space, on Washington Street right below 14th, will house his Z Spoke collection as well as candles, accessories and vintage books. It&amp;#039;s there, in the mini-library in back, that you&amp;#039;ll find the designer. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re going to have to stop me from buying them all,&amp;quot; he says of the books. &amp;quot;I believe that you&amp;#039;ll be able to find me at any time back there!&amp;quot; Posen, who goes online nearly everyday to scour the Internet for rare, out of print magazines and fashion books, thinks the collection at his store, curated by Michael Gallagher, is the best he&amp;#039;s ever seen. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never seen any of these books online,&amp;quot; he says. And he imagines the girls shopping his contemporary line will be as interested in them as he is, &amp;quot;I love the history of fashion and I think that with fashion-tainment growing so much right now in mass culture, that there will be interest into the history of it.&amp;quot; The store itself is simple, but luxurious. The shelves are piled high with snakeskin bags and the racks full of, but not stuffed with, cocktail dresses, ladylike coats and slim cut pants. It&amp;#039;s a big step for Posen, but done on a relatively small scale for the designer. While we had his attention we couldn&amp;#039;t help but ask for a spring hint. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a romance,&amp;quot; he said. We&amp;#039;re not surprised! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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