SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: Shoppers still mourning the closure of concept store Colette can get a temporary fix, with a new Paris pop-up by Sacai that reunites creative director Chitose Abe with former Colette creative director Sarah Andelman.
The “Bonjour Sacai” temporary store, scheduled to run from Feb. 12 to March 9, will kick off a worldwide sequence of Hello Sacai pop-up stores this year in key cities in Europe, Asia and the U.S. where the brand does not have its own retail stores.
Located on Rue de Richelieu, across from popular Japanese udon bar Kunitoraya, the French space will feature Sacai’s spring women’s and men’s collections, limited-edition kids’ and lingerie lines, and collaborations with local brands such as A.P.C., Petit Bateau and Hervé Chapelier.
Andelman, who heads her own consultancy, Just an Idea, also reunited Abe with jeweler Charlotte Chesnais and ceramics maker Astier de Villatte, who collaborated with Sacai in the past.
A jacket from Sacai’s collaboration with A.P.C.
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The pop-up will carry the exclusive prelaunches of Sacai’s latest collaboration with Nike, a Waffle Daybreak and LDV hybrid shoe, and custom-beaded BeatsX wireless earphones by Beats by Dre.
Sacai asked Gelchop, the studio that makes all of its store furniture and fixtures, to create bespoke pieces
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