Looks like the folks at the Ace Hotel are taking their material collaborations East, all the way East to Tokyo. The burgeoning Pacific Northwest hotel group opened a holiday pop up shop late last week on the 5th floor of the Shinjuku Isetan. If you have ever been to that Isetan store you will know, that baby is a monster with a pretty amazing variety of some of the best the world has to offer. The Ace shop looks great and I’m sure will be a big hit with the Japanese.
More info from Ace founder Alex Calderwood’s blog on Arkitip. The pop up shop will stock collaborations with: “Mackintosh & Various Projects, Wings + Horns, Pendleton, FjallRaven, Coto, Surface to Air, Rudy’s Barbershop, Pearl Plus, Generic Man, Arkitip, Evan Hecox and more. The shop is open now through the 25th.”
Foster
on Dec 10th, 2009
@ 1:59 PM:
ace does a lot of things right, collaborations and pop ups being one of them,
foster
Ken Shishido
on Dec 11th, 2009
@ 9:35 AM:
Hi
Yes, ACE hotel is very famous in Japan. When you come to Tokyo, please let me know!
Ken
Brehan Todd
on Dec 11th, 2009
@ 2:23 PM:
Awesome! I want to do this somewhere in Portland!
Guest Service
on Dec 12th, 2009
@ 4:34 AM:
Its not that famous in Tokyo… They JUST announced their presence in Tokyo’s “Fashion Closet” Isetan!! Their conceptual “Hotel” identity is a sweet-spot, that no Japanese companies dare try operating, except CLASKA.
They should open a ACE HOTEL themed “capsule” hotel in Harajuku or Shinjuku… something that is unique and hip.
Alexandra
on Dec 17th, 2009
@ 9:19 AM:
ha! That backpack there is a “Fjällräven” bag from Sweden, and those used to be the dorkiest bags ever. Are they cool now?
Daniel
on Dec 18th, 2009
@ 4:41 PM:
Alexandra, I have never seen as many people wearing Fjällräven clothes as here in Umeå in northern Sweden where I live. Alot of alternative people wear Fjällräven backpacks.
Terence
on Jan 7th, 2010
@ 11:14 AM:
I love stores like this. They should bring this to NYC.