SPACE 15 TWENTY Wed December 18, 2008 words_caroline boehner
In downtown Los Angeles, next door to famed Amoeba Records and the ArcLight Cinema, Urban Outfitters has gotten creative in their new combination retail/installation space where various boutiques open onto a courtyard for musical performances and DJs.
An 11,000-square-foot rotational pop-up shop currently stars Samantha Pleet of New York. Her lines include menswear label Patrick Pleet, the sustainable Bodkin and, created especially for Urban Outfitters, Rapscallion.
Other shops include vintage giant “What Comes Around Goes Around”; unique shoes by Alife; Hennessey & Ingalls, the West’s answer to an art and architecture bookstore and a café called Philly snack bar, offering good eats from 11am to midnight daily.
The space’s art gallery, in harmony with Urban Outfitters’ design theme, hosts photographers, fashion installations, young galleries, and independent publishers. Through January, catch the West Coast launch of Tim Barber’s popular online art gallery, Tiny Vices.
