OK so this is the first Gastro Chic video ever, so it's a little rough. But I wanted to show you what it was like inside TopShop on opening day, April 2nd.
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Showing posts with label TopShop. Show all posts
4/03/2009
4/02/2009
More TopShop Waiting
Waiting in line 50 minutes for dressing room. I could make clothes
myself in this amount of time. Even if I had to start with a loom and
some thread.
myself in this amount of time. Even if I had to start with a loom and
some thread.
At least they're playing Lady Gaga?
In TopShop
Got in at 2:30. Total wait 2 hrs 10 mins.
Crowd inside in a shopping-induced haze. Excellent DJs blast Belle & Sebastian and The Smiths. Free manicures on one floor, free updos on another. This is not your grandma's store opening. This is shopping as spectacle.
Sequins, fringe, acid wash: definitely not need-based clothes and accessories. Many items are over $100. Yet people are in line for the dressing room with 10 or more items. One woman strips down on the floor in front of a mirror and tries her clothes on there.
And the top floor of TopShop? Shopping nirvana: the shoes.
Cold TopShop
Very cold standing in shade on Broome St. Should have worn fleece - f* fashion.
Wondering why there's more traffic out to the Holland when I realize: evening rush hour has started. Total time in line: 1 hr 51 mins.
Taco truck across the street. So. Far. Away.
The Wait
Waiting in line. Am one of approximately three nonsmokers of the hundred or so people in line. Estimated wait time: 1 1/2 hours. Note to potential TopShop shoppers: bring food and water.
Inexplicably, the woman ahead of me buys a $5 TopShop gift card from someone...for $5.
Kate Moss Has Left the Building
After a very disappointing paparazzi stake out that resulted in limited, blocked shots.
But it's always entertaining to hear the paparazzi's fashion and beauty commentary:
On a woman walking by in this season's red-orange lipstick: She looks like that bird from Florida.
On a not-very-attractive woman with bright purple hair: Because when you look that good, you wanna draw a lot of attention to yourself.
On a large lady leaving from the same door Kate would eventually come out of: That's not her!
TopShop Mania
Location: new TopShop store in Soho
Scene: Very crowded, line wrapping all the way around the block down to Grand St. No sign of Kate.
Equipment: iPhone, 2 cameras, Flip video
Overheard: "I thought everyone was broke!"
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