Avant-garde Stores
A list of the coolest avant-garde shops around.
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Aloha Rag
Ala Moana - Honolulu, HI United StatesOkay, we admit it, our vision of the Hawaiian wardrobe is based on movies and tourist visits. So, Aloha Rag is at once a shattering of stereotypes and an amazing shopping experience. Aloha Rag carries hip, edgy "big city" brands--avant-garde constructions for both women and men that...
Anastasia
Laguna Beach - Laguna Beach, CA United StatesReader Suggested: Amazing women's store in Laguna Beach, CA. They carry very exclusive designers such as, Comme des Garcons, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, Limi Feu, and Maison Martin Margiela. Also, there is a cafe attached to the boutique. All around an awesome place to eat and shop.
B Store
Savile Row - London, United KingdomB Store is where Londoners shop to be at the forefront of fashion. The boutique prides itself on finding and supporting the latest, greatest crop of young designers from London and elsewhere. The shop might pick up a small designer and will...
Colette
Louvre/Tuileries - Paris, FranceAfter walking through Colette, you will see every store that you thought was cool before under a new light. There is cool, and then there is "we sell our own mix CDs and our own water" cool. Colette is a store like no other. It sells a...
Creatures of Comfort
Melrose Heights - Los Angeles, CA United StatesCreatures of Comfort is actually rather restless--anxious to find who's next in fashion and scouring near and far to make it happen. Looking far they introduce up and coming labels from Japan, the UK and France. Looking near they are among...
Des Kohan
Miracle Mile - Los Angeles, CA United StatesDes Kohan's fashions don't need to scream to make their point--black, brown, beige, navy, and white are the colors in the shop's rainbow. Dresses, separates and a host of belts, bags and shoes distinguish themselves with the careful...
Doshaburi
Barrio Gótico - Barcelona, SpainReader Suggested: I went to Barcelona Bread&Butter week in January 2007. I found a nice clothing store in the Gothic area. They have many labels I like: Levi's Vintage Clothing, Levi's RED, Marjan Pejoski, KTZ (Kokon To Zai), Bernhand Willhelm, Bless, Ann Sofie Back, Wendy&Jim, Petar Petrov,...
Dover Street Market
Mayfair - London, United KingdomReader Suggested: Incredible guerrilla store from Comme des Garçons where they give space to up and coming designers. The selection is always amazing and changing frequently, you'll find everything from Lanvin to Boudicca to Balenciaga to Jens Laugesen. The building seems more like a warehouse but it just...
Dover Street Market
Aoyama - Tokyo, JapanReader Suggested: Incredible guerrilla store from Comme des Garçons where they give space to up and coming designers. The selection is always amazing and changing frequently, you'll find everything from Lanvin to Boudicca to Balenciaga to Jens Laugesen.
Hejfina
Wicker Park - Chicago, IL United StatesHejfina has elegant modern living down pat. For clothing expect avant-garde Japanese brands, ultra-exclusive New York brands, next to creative selections from Brazil, England and France. These are articles you certainly won't find anywhere...
Joan Shepp
Center City - Philadelphia, PA United StatesReader Suggested: Affordable, exceptional luxury fashion. Carries one of a kind, up-to-the-minute selection of favorites like Stella McCartney, Christian Louboutin and Junya Watanabe and unique accessories by hard-to-find brands such as Johnny Farah, Sissi Rossi...
Oak
NoHo - New York, NY United StatesThe best clothing shops are really good filters. It's one thing to seek out and stock the hippest labels. It's another thing entirely to irreverently edit these lines to find those handful of pieces that are both stylish and versatile,...
Oak
Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY United StatesThe best clothing shops are really good filters. It's one thing to seek out and stock the hippest labels. It's another thing entirely to irreverently edit these lines to find those handful of pieces that are both stylish and versatile,...
Scout
Third Street - Los Angeles, CA United StatesIf you need elaborate displays, too-cool-for-school salespeople and obnoxiously loud rap music to create a "hip" clothing store, you're doing something wrong. Here's an idea--let the clothes do the talking. Witness Scout. One...
Seven
SoHo - New York, NY United StatesSeven has an uncanny ability to find designers that march to the beat of their own drum. From Belgium and Japan, Germany and New York, they find creations that pay little attention to the trends and looks of the season. Some pieces scream: white...
South Willard
Third Street - Los Angeles, CA United StatesThe first time we walked into South Willard we walked right out. After all, faced with all this style and elegance in Los Angeles, is it at all surprising that we had to check the street signs and "actors" at the nearby café to confirm...
Two See
Carnaby - London, United KingdomWhere does all that dynamic, creative fashion taught at Central St. Martins and presented at London Fashion Week go anyway? Two See, for one, is where. A fervent supporter of the young and upcoming fashion designer, most of the labels wont be...
Welcome Hunters
Chinatown - Los Angeles, CA United StatesThanks to Welcome Hunters those looking for the multitude of young, fresh, often daring design coming out of the many corners of the world can stop hunting and commence with the gathering. How to describe the aesthetic--crazy club kid meets...