Main Exchange moving on up
Mount Pleasant consignment store The Main Exchange is moving on up… the road from its current location on East 16th as of Feb. 1, 2016 to a new location up the street. The new shop will be located at 3278 Main (between 21st and 22nd avenues) and is expected to open by Feb. 5.
Hey Jude collaboration
Vancouver fashion designer Evan Ducharme recently announced a collaboration with contemporary vintage clothing company Hey Jude. The limited edition jersey capsule dresses launched Friday at Hey Jude’s new Gastown boutique, at 315 Abbott. All the materials were purchased, designed, and made within a one-kilometre radius of the shop.
Moncler opens in Vancouver
French-Italian menswear brand, Moncler, opened a new stand-alone boutique in Vancouver on Tuesday. The Italian luxury chain has only one other Canadian location – in Yorkdale Mall in Toronto – and more than a dozen stores in the United States. The Vancouver store is located at The Carlyle Building, 1060 Alberni.
Book launch to benefit DTES
The lululemon lab is hosting the launch of an unusual coffee table book that captures the untold stories of Vancouver; its history and culture through the eyes of 100 very different people, on Wednesday (Dec 16). So It Is: Vancouver, features snippets about Vancouver from a diversity of eyes including businessmen such as Ryan Holmes and Chip Wilson, to more unassuming individuals like “Canada’s most famous junkie,” Dean Wilson, and Jesse Keefer, whose relative burned down the city in 1886. The book is the creative project of local photographers Adam Schelle and Kev Holloway, who used to offer portraits to residents of the DTES. Both longtime residents who were raised outside of Vancouver, the pair wanted to showcase the depth they had discovered in the city beyond its pretty landscape. Approximately 1,500 limited edition copies of the book will be sold at a launch party with partial proceeds of the book will be donated to St. John Ambulance to help to fund an ambulance team dedicated to the DTES for non-emergency medical treatment.
