Last night Banana Republic opened its 18,000-square foot prototype store in New York's SoHo. Guests including ELLE's Joe Zee and Robbie Myers, Vogue's Meredith Melling Burke, and Vanity Fair's Alexis Bryan Morgan walked through the gigantic two-level store, which has been divided into smaller boutiques based on occasion (city weekend, evening out) and category (accessories, vintage). Down the street, the former men's Banana Republic store is turing into a Gap.
Gap's Design Edition collection, a collaboration with the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, landed online and in stores today. The participating designers, Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava, Alexander Wang and Albertus Swanepoel, each designed four to five khaki items for the retailer. Everything in the collection--from Wang's Moto trench to Vena Cava's tribal print dress--retails for well under one hundred dollars.
Gap plans to launch online stores in Canada and the U.K. by 2010, followed by Japan in 2011. They will also open stores in six new countries this year.
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