‘We didn’t have many corners of Fifth Avenue left!’ joked Gucci CEO Mark Lee at a press conference at the company’s new flagship store this week. The largest Gucci store in the world, which has a gross area of 46,000 square feet and will open to the public on Friday, thronged with the fashion cognoscenti, in town for New York Fashion Week, and a wonderfully bequiffed Donald Trump.
Located in the Trump building, the new store was designed under the watch of Gucci’s Creative Director, Frida Giannini (who was also present at the event and said that, after fashion, her passions in life were architecture and interior design), and plays with light and transparency: the façade, designed by James Carpenter, is a vast sheet of glass that allows the natural light to pour across all of its three floors, to scintillating effect.
‘The gold replaces the chrome from previous stores,’ said Giannini with a smile of a girl that’s got her way, and indeed the metal, the fused bronze glass, and the traditional dark rosewood do give the space a comforting atmosphere - something of an achievement considering its open areas are larger than a lot of stores on the Avenue.
Appropriately, last night's party to celebrate its opening was similarly grand in scope. The cause? UNICEF. The host? Madonna. The venue? The United Nations building.
@Source: http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/gucci-flagship-nyc/2088
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