"Concept Stores": LN-CC & Dover Street Market

“Concept store” describes a store which is identified by a special mix of brands and products. It’s a modern experience of shopping, always in motion and highly innovative. The store addresses particular groups of customers: e.g. luxury, – design-, streetwear-customers. They’ll find (all) the products, they identify with in one store. A typical mix of products and brands in a concept store would be: fashion, shoes, (home-) accessories, books/cd’s, cosmetics, food, toys, hardware for daily use. The range is wide and some stores even change theyrselfes and the products regularly, to stay flexible and surprising.
A concept store (for us) is NOT: classical departmentstore, mono brand (flagship) store, fashion boutique, furniture store, mall, etc.

http://slowretail.wordpress.com/concept-stores/

LN-CC  -18 Shacklewell Lane, London E822EZ

RICK OWENS MEN'S SCARPA SHEARLING BIKER JACKET

LN-CC is a progressive retail concept which combines the roots of traditional bricks and mortar retailing, housed within an art based installation. This is twinned with an online store that is run with the same attention to detail and forward thinking approach as the space.

BY WALID MEN'S UZBEKI MIRROR JACKET

Both platforms are filled with brands from all areas of the product world, including international mainline designers through to underground Japanese street-wear. We also house informative and enlightening collectables within our library, such as hard to find/exclusive vinyl and out of print/1st edition rarities in our book selection. An ever-growing selection of audio hardware also features, from some of the most innovative and world acclaimed brands in their respective fields,alongside the more underground, emerging pioneers of sound. These are interesting to us as people, rather than just what we think we can sell.

Everything in our mix is carefully considered, showcased and wrapped up in a way that we would appreciate them being presented if we were the consumer. Essentially this is a non-compromise, non-prejudiced and non-exclusive project, from the first to the last detail, inclusive of everything in-between.

Our platform is about a point of view. This point of view is always evolving but the place it is coming from will never change.

LN-CC

Dries Van Noten Men's Midas Sweater

http://www.ln-cc.com

THAMANYAH MEN'S DERVISH COLLAR SHORT SLEEVE SHIRT

Yohji Yamamoto

GIVENCHY WOMEN'S PRINTED T-SHIRT

THAMANYAH WOMEN'S DEMI TRENCH PANTS

GIVENCHY WOMEN'S LONG SLEEVE COWHIDE LEATHER TOP

Dover Street Market -17/18 Dover Street, London W1S4LT

"Dover Street Market is a multilevel fashion retail store created by Rei Kawakubo of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons."

-wikipedia

"I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos: the mixing up and coming together of different kindred souls who all share a strong personal vision." 

       --Rei KAWAKUBO