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"  New York will be joining rank with London and Japan with the opening of Comme des Gar\u00E7ons&amp;#039; Dover Street Market New York, set on Lexington Avenue in Kips Bay, a sleepy area of the city most known for a movie theatre. Now, it will be most known for Rei Kawakubo&amp;#039;smulti-brand store, stocked with both new designers and fashion mainstays. Launched by a woman who recently told WWD, &amp;quot;I am not aware I am an icon,&amp;quot; see5 reasons to get excited and that also happen to prove Kawakubo is, indeed, iconic.   1. Copious Space, in Manhattan: It is seven floors of unabashed fashion in a place that is not currently inundated with pedestrians.Three pillars, coolly decorated by three artists take center stage through a formerly shuttered school building that housed the New York School of Applied Design for Women. That&amp;#039;s a lot of room to shop, 18,000 square feet to be exact. And Kawakubo oversaw the design of each floor.  2. Prada Classics: Prada will unveil, on the seventh floor of the Dover Street Market New York, a 450 square foot space that will include a very special selection of clothing, accessories and shoes bearing a distinctive label: Prada Dover Street Market New York, and representing timeless Prada classics. Beyond the collection, the space will also carry a selection of very special men&amp;#039;s and women&amp;#039;s RTW and accessories from runway. Take that SoHo Prada wonderland.  3. A Louis Vuitton Pop-Up: When the words Louis Vuitton and exclusive go together, magic tends to happen. Louis Vuitton will have a pop-up store on the main entrance floor of the space, which will open with men&amp;#039;s, but will turn over to women&amp;#039;s in February with an assortment of exclusive pieces from the Spring/Summer 2014 collection.  4. All Comme All the Time: The theme behind the Dover Street market is &amp;quot;beautiful chaos&amp;quot; and melds fashion, art and commerce. Part of that controlled anarchy includes all Comme des Gar\u00E7ons brands in one place.   5. The New Kids: There will be areas for newly anointed Brit designers Simone Rocha and J. W. Anderson, as well as a 4th floor dedicated to &amp;quot;incubation&amp;quot; area for up-and-comers like Russian Gosha Rubchinskiy, Max Vanderwoude Gross and New York label Proper Gang, according the T Magazine. Additionally, &amp;quot;Other designers on the floor, which will be called the &amp;quot;DSM Showroom,&amp;quot; include Lou Dalton, Phoebe English, Craig Green, Lee Roach and Sibling.&amp;quot;  Bonus: Rose Bakery, the cult French bakery will be on the ground level. It also has a home at the London and Tokyo stores.  Dover Street Market New York opens December 21, at 11AM.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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