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"In terms of high-end fashion addresses, Melrose Place is separated from Savile Row and Avenue Montaigne as much by sensibility as by physical distance\u2014Los Angeles is, after all, a city where board shorts and flip-flops still constitute a legitimate interpretation of \u201Cbusiness casual.\u201D Los Angeles\u2013based entrepreneur turned menswear designer Derek Mattison is looking to change all that. His new boutique, Mattison, strikes a blow for fine tailoring and serious haberdashery in the laid-back land of endless summer.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe menswear line\u2019s designer, Derek Mattison.\n\n\u201CMy clothes are constructed as well as, and in some cases better, than the most respected menswear labels in the world. But they have a distinctly American sensibility that feels neither preppy nor retrograde,\u201D says the 36-year-old designer.\n\nPinterestFacebookBrass walls and minimalist fixtures provide a high-style backdrop for chic suiting.\n\nWhen it came time to open his first shop, Mattison turned to Pamela Shamshiri of the L.A. design collective Commune, who had recently renovated the couturier\u2019s 1960s Buff &amp;amp; Hensman home in Nichols Canyon (Architectural Digest, March 2011).\n\nPinterestFacebookGeometric planters hover in the center of the space.\n\n\u201CWe asked ourselves what a Dior boutique would look like if Dior were based in California,\u201D Shamshiri says of the design inspiration. \u201CThe shop had to express the ethos of Derek\u2019s clothes, which are attuned to the more urbane, sophisticated facets of L.A. culture.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebookThe dressing area features a working fireplace.\n\nIn practical terms, that spirit is expressed in brass walls, minimalist display fixtures that riff on Mattison\u2019s logo, and bespoke hanging planters of Hindu rope that add an organic flourish to the pristine aesthetic. At the back of the shop, a private dressing room outfitted with antiqued mirrors and a Roy\u00E8re-style sofa allows customers to try on the apparel in a comfortable, residence-like setting as handsome and refined as any Mattison blazer.\n\nPinterestFacebookUpdated black tie displayed on a bespoke hanger.\n\nMattison, 8458 Melrose Place, Los Angeles, CA; mattison.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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