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City Guides
Supreme opened its first store on Lafayette Street in 1994, on the edge of SoHo, and streetwear shops have clustered around those blocks ever since. City Guides go street by street through the neighborhoods where style is made and sold. In Los Angeles that means Fairfax Avenue, where Supreme opened its West Coast store in 2004 and a line of shops followed. In Paris it means Le Marais, with its old mansions, independent designers and concept stores. The London guide starts in Soho and takes in Dover Street Market, which Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe opened in Mayfair in 2004 and later moved to Haymarket. Tokyo's Ura-Harajuku guide traces the 1990s shops of Nigo and Jun Takahashi. Seongsu-dong in Seoul, long known for shoe workshops and warehouses, now fills with independent brands. Copenhagen, Milan and Kyoto get guides built around design and craft. Each guide gives the history of the area and the shops that defined it, and leaves out opening hours and prices, which change faster than any page can. Most of these neighborhoods are best walked, starting early on a weekday.
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Daikanyama and Nakameguro: Tokyo's Slow Shopping Hill
A select shop that moved uphill in 1979, a bookstore wrapped in its own logo and a river where the cherry branches meet over the water.
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SoHo, New York: A Streetwear Guide From Lafayette to the Bowery
Cast iron, cheap lofts and a skate shop that opened in 1994. How the blocks south of Houston became the place menswear lines up.
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Roma and Condesa: Mexico City's Art Deco Comeback
A neighborhood laid out by a circus owner, a racetrack you can still jog around and the earthquake that emptied both before they came back.
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Le Marais, Paris: A Style Guide to the Old Marsh
Royal squares, salt-tax mansions and a 2013 concept store on a side street. The Marais rewards anyone who walks it slowly.
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Copenhagen Design Guide: Hospitals, Hotels and Room 606
A design museum in an eighteenth-century hospital, a hotel built down to the cutlery and a square that has sold furniture since 1925.
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Berlin Mitte: Squats, Galleries and the Long Walk West
A margarine factory turned art institute, a department store with four lives and the East Berlin streets that taught the city how to shop again.
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Seongsu-dong, Seoul: From Shoe Factories to Pop-Up Capital
Seoul's old shoemaking district now hosts Dior, ADER and more pop-ups than anyone can count. The workshops are still there if you look.
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Milan Design Week: How Salone and Fuorisalone Actually Work
One trade fair in Rho, a few thousand events across the city and six days to see them. A field guide to April in Milan.
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Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles: The Streetwear Block After the Boom
A Jewish deli street turned streetwear capital turned cautionary tale. Fairfax is quieter now, and more interesting for it.
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Kyoto Craft Guide: Tea Caddies, Knives and Canvas Bags
A knife shop that started as a swordsmith in 1560, a tea caddy taking more than 130 steps. Kyoto still makes things the slow way.
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London's Soho and Dover Street Market: A Streetwear Guide
From John Stephen's His Clothes in 1957 to Rei Kawakubo's beautiful chaos on Haymarket. A walk through London's best square mile for clothes.
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