Posted Nov 5, 2018, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude
It's fascinating how the Arts District has outpaced the rest of downtown in terms of citywide acceptance as a fully solidified neighborhood.
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I was about to say this myself. It’s rise shouldn’t be a surprise in fashion since Philip Lim came into the area, but the amount of momentum happening in arts district still seemed unlikely compared to other areas of downtown that have grand old buildings just waiting to be adopted. But then again, never underestimate the allure of having space, which arts district has more of in comparison to the rest of DTLA. But arts district definitely carries the momentum in the fashion scene now, on top of it’s dominance of LA's culinary scene and art scene (even while MOCA and Broad are on Grand).
Why Dover Street Market’s New Los Angeles Store is a Game-Changer
https://www.vogue.com/article/dover-street-market-los-angeles-opening
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By now, as far as trendspotters are concerned, it’s fair to say that Los Angeles is no longer the next big thing—it is the big thing. Every couple of months or so, something seems to rachet up the city’s It factor—another tastemaker relocates from elsewhere, another institution halfway across the globe fetishizes it, another boutique opens its doors.
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Just before the opening, Dover Street and Comme des Garçons CEO Adrian Joffe wore a thick rapper-style faux-gold chain with a massive DOVER STREET MARKET LOS ANGELES pendant—the store’s cheeky staff identifier tag—as he roamed the premises. “We’ve been thinking about a second [U.S. store] since we opened in New York,” he said. “Everybody in the industry said, ‘you gotta do it in L.A.’ Of course, there’s the conversation about its resurgence—the art, the music—and the cinema, the best in the world.” But also, he explained, “it’s open to new ideas. We like that. Even back in the ’50s—Krishnamurti, Timothy Leary. It’s always been an open place.”
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Yet Hauser & Wirth’s museum-sized gallery is here; so are Phillip Lim’s new store and too many third-wave coffee roasteries to count. A pair of 57-story towers by Herzog and De Meuron—housing a hotel, thousands of luxury apartments, a K-12 school, and even more retail—will soon sprout around the corner, as will a smattering of other starchitect-branded condo and hotel developments, a Soho House, a light-rail station, and Time Warner’s new West Coast HQ. The future on-ramp to the new Sixth Street Viaduct—which will be a High Line-esque mix of parks, public art, and walking trails when it opens in 2020—is across from DSM’s parking lot (yes, crucially, the store has one).
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