In Vancouver, fixie fanatics need look no further than Super Champion, the city’s only shop dedicated to repairing, building and selling single-speed brakeless bikes. According to the self-professed merchants of death, “The premise of Super Champion is to promote and support the cult following of the track bicycle. Whether a solider of the street, a [...]

Despite the influx of hipsters, streetwear aficionados and à la mode youth around the world jumping on the fixed gear bike bandwagon, few cities remain capable of sustaining a profitable fixie-specific shop. With commercial space in Paris costing an arm and a leg, a few young leaders of the scene took it underground (literally) to [...]

Everything in Paris has style: architecture, public space, cafés, the people, the nightlife. It’s chalked full of character and has a vibe that can’t be found anywhere else. From those decked out in high fashion to the derelict drunkard that yells on the street outside your flat in the wee hours of the morning, people [...]

The barrage of posts we’ve recently published on the interior design of retail spaces has us thinking: Vancouver is a wide-open, largely untapped market for retailers looking to set up innovative and conceptually driven shops. With the exception of Dutil on Cordova Street, few have utilized creative or thematic merchandizing as a means of cultural [...]

Comme des Garcons has been killing the pop-up shop scene since 2004 with their self-dubbed “guerilla stores”.
They’ve had shops in swanky locales like Barcelona, Singapore, Athens, Reykjavik and East Berlin, just to name a few. Each location stays open for one year only, and advertising is kept grassroots. Unless you come across a poster [...]

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Wonderwall is a Japanese design firm that was founded by Masamichi Katayama back in 2000. Specializing in cutting edge retail and commercial spaces, and most known for designing A Bathing Ape’s “BUSY WORK SHOPs” in Japan, London, New York, and Hong Kong, Wonderwall is changing the way some of the world’s most progressive [...]