Comme Des Garcons - Guerrilla Stores

[wuel]

some more photos from warsaw guerilla.
something went wrong when i tried to link photos in higher resolution. (check here for higher res.)

[my photos]

taken about a month ago.
enjoy.

 

[kahlilg]

^omg so cool! thx.

 

[melt977]

hey melt, good to see you are still around

the 00301 store is well hidden in a basement few meters from 'chic' Kolonaki Square
do you need the address doll?

Yes please! I'd appreciate it!

 

[manolocraver]

Now that's what I call the unique retail experience ...

 

[i-love-polkadots]

A new Guerrilla Store will open Saturday in Dusseldorf, Germany. This time they take it to a museum, accompanying an exhibition about "radical advertising":
http://www.radicaladvertising.de/

 

[i-love-polkadots]

Oh, Saturday April 5th 2008 11am

 

[wuel]

a few photos from WOODWOOD x Guerrilla Store +4822 collaboration:

there's also a special tee WW x GS +4822 available only there:

credits: intelligence.arkitip.com, hypebeast.com

 

[John W]

Not sure if posted yet, but Dover Street Market are setting up a Market selling items from past comme collections and other designers all at discount prices. This will be for only 2 days 25 and 26 May in London. Full details are on www.doverstreetmarket.com
Worth Checking out if you are in London.

 

[~LovelyDay~]

gosh thats alot of perriers

regardless i luv those wires sticking out with those falling lights.

I hope one day they will come to canada...
but i know that day will never come ;

 

[gius]

^ seems like no one wants to come to Canada

 

[vieuxfoudan]

My utmost respects to all of Comme Des Garcon's Guerilla Store all over the world. It really inspires me alot.

 

[Matay]

My utmost respects to all of Comme Des Garcon's Guerilla Store all over the world. It really inspires me alot.

same!
who designs the interiors for them?
or is it someone different each time?

 

[Colette_B]

same!
who designs the interiors for them?
or is it someone different each time?

I'd like to know as well.
vry innovative.

 

[dirk1606]

same!
who designs the interiors for them?
or is it someone different each time?

the stores are designed by their owners in collaboration with christian weinecke a young architect from berlin who is now working at cdg.

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

the stores are designed by their owners in collaboration with christian weinecke a young architect from berlin who is now working at cdg.

lots of people from both parties contribute in the design of each GS....

 

[dirk1606]

^ you're righr, of course. the guerrilla store in the hague, for example which i rate among the most beautiful in visual terms, was designed by a whole group of architects who also run the store... on cdg's side christian weinecke is not the only one, but the main person, a subsequent store-owner has to address to...
a quite different approach comparing it to the position of a franchise-owner of cdg, who had not much to contribute to the final shop-design. there, in most cases takao kawasaki with his co-worker toshiaki oshiba together with kawakubo made the decisions. exclusively first, but later more and more in collaboration with another architect/architect's office...

 

[GuerrillaBoy]

^ of course, we are not talking about franchise stores like the White Box in Hong Kong or the new one in Beijing...this is another story who is making these stores. A franchise store will cost LOTS of thousands of euros (that means is not possible to make a franchise store unless you own I.T Group), a GS will cost only a few (and it is possible).....

 

[Matay]

the stores are designed by their owners in collaboration with christian weinecke a young architect from berlin who is now working at cdg.

I"M LEARNING TO BE AN ARCHITECT!
what a dream job!
(i can dream....)
thanks.
i'm going to find o more about him now!

 

[dirk1606]

^ oh, i understand you so well... in 1985, one morning at cdg, then on rue etienne-marcel i met mme deschamps, who was the president of cdg france then, she asked me if i could imagine working at the shop... oh, i could, of course, but still at grammar school in germany, i had to refuse... but after that happened, not only the shop, but also 16, place vendome stood open for me... i went there regularly for having a look at new collections, just after a show, watching vids, i hadn't seen already, asking questions about everything comme-related, etc. ... now it would be impossible to just walk in only because you're just a big comme-devotee, but then there was no comme-craze, as there is now. ... those where the days...

 

[Matay]

^ oh, i understand you so well... in 1985, one morning at cdg, then on rue etienne-marcel i met mme deschamps, who was the president of cdg france then, she asked me if i could imagine working at the shop... oh, i could, of course, but still at grammar school in germany, i had to refuse... but after that happened, not only the shop, but also 16, place vendome stood open for me... i went there regularly for having a look at new collections, just after a show, watching vids, i hadn't seen already, asking questions about everything comme-related, etc. ... now it would be impossible to just walk in only because you're just a big comme-devotee, but then there was no comme-craze, as there is now. ... those where the days...

aw what a shame!
great story though!
definitely one to tell the grandkids!