Gap Design Editions

[nogoodforme]

at first i was skeptical, but seeing the actual images of the clothes, i think this could be cool. i'm definitely going to seriously look at the rodarte!

 

[manolocraver]

I'm loving it

 

[rollagasper]

^^ this should be at somerset. wasn't the RED collection only availabe at flagship locations? and i am pretty sure they carried that at somerset..

I believe that the RED collection was available to most GAP stores. My local GAP has the RED collection right now, but it certainly didn't have the Roland Mouret one.

 

[jegg]

Where to Buy Gap's New White Shirts
Monday, April 16, 2007
http://racked.com/archives/2007/04/16/where_to_buy_gaps_new_white_sh.php

Tomorrow marks the debut of Gap Design Editions, the limited-edition line of white button-down shirts designed for the retailer by DFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners Doo-Ri Chung of Doo-Ri, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, and Thakoon Panichgul of Thakoon. It is possible, but not likely, that all of the shirts will sell out. We are predicting that a few pieces will be snapped up right away, particularly the sleeveless style from Rodarte (seen above at center). To prepare for an AM rush (one should always be prepared for such events), Racked called around to find out which Gap stores would be carrying the shirts and when they open for business.

YES: 680 Fifth Ave between 54th and 55th Sts, opening at 8am
NO: 1212 Sixth Ave between 47th and 48th Sts
YES: 60 W 34th St at Broadway, opening at 9am
YES: 1466 Broadway at 42nd St, opening at 9am
YES: 734 Lexington Ave at 59th St, opening at 9am
POSSIBLY: Queens Center, 90-15 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst, opening at 10am

 

[roca3itch]

i doubt it will 'sell out the first day', the pr and advertising has been nill...we'll see...

 

[em 692]

for those who were wondering if this would be at somerset: the detroit free press confirmed it

 

[mme]

Here they are!

Doo.Ri

Thakoon

Rodarte

[gap.com]


I love almost all of them Sorry the pictures are not bigger, but you can find them here:
http://www.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=35623&mlink=35579,718070,4&clink=718070

The store locations are up on the site too! But does anyone where it's available in Canada?!

 

[novella]

WOO-HOO!!! It's so hard to be selective when you want them all!

 

[nogoodforme]

oh my goodness! judging from the pics, i love nearly all the rodarte ones! sheesh, i better wake up early tomorrow...
do you think others will be there in the morning? i'm not expecting a stella- or karl-style stampede, but i still think there will be folks there.

 

[Meg]

thanks to everyone in the detroit/southern ontario area sorting that out! I'm going to have the car for several hours tomorrow....maybe I can slip on over to troy and have a poke around. All the rodarte stuff looks great And doo.ri. this is way more exciting than any other designer collab. i'm so so curious to see what it looks like on

 

[luckyme]

go online, I just ordered from gap.com

1 of each of the Rodarte
the Doo.Ri camp shirt and the Doo.Ri shirtdress

 

[LoveLetter]

There are plenty on line. Only Rodarte shirt has limited sizes left.

 

[lucy92]

wow, a lot of the small sizes sold out fast. i really like the rodarte bow blouse and the bow pocket dress.

i wonder if it would be possible to dye these garments. they are made of cotton poplin. i only want 'em if they are dyeable....

i may go to the store tonight and check em out.

 

[wildeyedundine]

lucy92, let us know how it goes if you do dye them! I only bought 3 pieces so far because I always ruin my white clothes. I would have bought more if they were available in black.

 

[lucy92]

Gap gives designers chance to reinvent white shirt

AP


They could be the next big names in the fashion industry -- Thakoon, Doo.Ri and Rodarte are all considered important up-and-comers -- and here's your chance to add their look to your wardrobe without breaking the bank: they've each designed three interpretations of the classic white shirt for Gap.
Doo.Ri's Gap items include a shirt with a scarf draped at the neck, a tailored camp shirt and a loose shirtdress; Rodarte's are a sleeveless blouse decorated with bows, a trapeze-shape sleeveless top and a voluminous minidress with pockets and bows; and Thakoon's are a bow-tie blouse with short, puffy sleeves, a short shirtdress with puffy sleeves and a tiered hem, and a belted shirtdress.
"My take on the project was to build a boy-meets-girl attitude into the pieces," said designer Thakoon Panichgul. "The shirt has feminine elements like pintucks, ruffles and hemstitches built into it, and the dresses have a boyfriend's shirt element in the top portion, while the bottom has a feminine play with a built-in skirt and the other looks as if you tied another white shirt around your waist to make a skirt."
Top models Stella Tennant, Liya Kebede and Carmen Kass star in the ad campaign for Gap Design Editions that was shot by top photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoosh Matadin.
Another player in this project is Vogue magazine, which features all the white shirts -- paired with ballskirts -- on a fold-out cover of the May issue. Gap has only been featured on the cover of Vogue twice before, once in 1992 when Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer, among others, wore white shirts and white jeans to celebrate the magazine's 100th issue and in 1988 for Anna Wintour's first cover as editor in chief.
The new white shirts serve as an awareness initiative for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, which supports new American design talent. Panichgul, Doo-Ri Chung, and sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte all participated in last year's Fashion Fund competition, and Chung was the winner.
Gap spokesperson Julie Alonso says the retailer gave each designer the material, the buttons. "I was blown away with what they did with a white shirt," she said.
"The white shirt is something we're famous for in our 38-year history," she added. "It's the perfect item for every closet. We thought consumers would be interested in the twists the designers gave it."
The collection, which retails for US$68-$88, will be on Gap.com beginning today.

 

[lucy92]

here is a link to a high quality huge image of the vogue cover.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_sKP94Mmu28s/RiOax69edlI/AAAAAAAAAA0/yzSl6aOrRUE/s1600-h/COACDFOREVER.jpg

lily donaldson is wearing the rodarte top i want!

i would suggest that those that want any of these garments buy them quickly because the Vogue cover will increase demand.
i wonder if gap will be restocking any of these items at gap.com or in the stores.

 

[kimair]

from racked.com...more on the fit...

Our first impression of the shirts was that they were cut very generously; try on a size smaller than you usually take...A sleeveless Rodarte dress, with bows at the pockets, was charming on the hanger but was way too voluminous on, and the cotton was too sheer, a common problem. Again, the smaller sizes were already disappearing from the racks, so go early if you take anything under a medium. Gap employees are banned from purchasing the shirts till tomorrow, so you can bet that any remainders will be snapped up then.

i got the rodarte trapeze top...

 

[Pastry]

^good! the Rodarte pieces look lovely!

 

[LoveLetter]

I would have bought more if they were available in black.

Same here!

My old experience...Gap's sizing always runs big.

 

[Caffeine]

I tried most of them on. Yes. the sizes are very generous. I passed on Doo.ri's camp shirt just because it's too large. Takoon's shirt with bow and puffy sleeves is too much of volume to handle ( i didn't even think that it looked good on the models). The dresses are mostly drop-waisted, and in general i try to avoid that proportion. The shirt dress is slightly long and also too much volume. You can work with it but you must be a super stylist to do so - look at the Vogue cover and see what they did on Agynes (sp?)'s shirt and a few others?
I got two Rodarte tops. The tank top with tiny bows fits fine. The other has high collar and an A line cut. I'll try it on with some bottoms to decide tonight.