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"FacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nUnless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard of our friends over at Park &amp;amp; Bond, and their super cool concept of online shop-in-shops curated by the likes of Josh and Travis from Street Etiquette, and our own GQ fashion editorial team. Well, next up is a special one: not only because Nepenthes happens to be one of the more forward-thinking shops in the country (it feels like Japan dropped into the Garment District), but because they've also never sold their often hard-to-find products online before. P&amp;amp;B's style director Josh Peskowitz takes us through the collaboration, below, and above is a preview of some of what you can expect when the shop goes live today at Noon, here.\n\nGQ: You guys have taken a fresh approach with these shops on P&amp;amp;B...\n\nJosh Peskowitz: Basically we're trying to present something to the public that isn't readily available in another way. We also want to make sure that the shop feels like them, similar to spaces in specialty stores where brands of a certain caliber get to design/build-out their own areas. Everybody we've worked with has been great so far, and we're planning on continuing, and introducing new stuff.\n\nGQ: Obviously Nepenthes is such a great shop and brand, but what made them specifically attractive to you guys?\n\nPeskowitz: I've known Angelo [Urrutia] since roughly 2005, when they rolled out Engineered Garments, and Daiki [Suzuki] from back when they were doing Woolrich Woolen Mills. I've always had such an appreciation for not only the work that they do, but the way they do it: they've never made a big deal about how well constructed their clothing is or anything, they just pursue their own aesthetic, and their own goals. It's really nice to see a group of people who are so creative be so humble. They don't try to grow too fast, or overexpose what they do. When they opened in NYC, I couldn't wait to finally get my hands on brands like Needles that they do in Japan.\n\nGQ: Tell us about the styling for the lookbook, and how it came together...\n\nPeskowitz: I sat down with Angelo, and Abdul [Abasi], and we went through what we wanted to use for the first installment of the shop-in-shop at their office above the store in Hell's Kitchen. We got it down to about 40 items. The most important thing was to mix-and-match: we didn't want, for example, a head-to-toe Engineered Garments look. We wanted to make sure the entire breadth of what is available at the store is available to the customer, and also how these things can co-exist, and be paired together. I think it came out nicely, a lot of the stuff is really, really wearable, of course there's some things that are a little bit more out there, but that's Nepenthes, that's why it's beautiful."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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