London, Tokyo, Paris • Est. 2004
Emerging Talent • Avant-Garde • Retail Theatre • Cultural Hub
Owners: Rei Kawakubo, Adrian Joffe
Dover Street Market is the multi-brand concept store that reset the template for how fashion is sold, conceived in 2004 by Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and her husband Adrian Joffe. Every floor is a revolving door of brand partners that resets roughly twice a year, so no two visits are quite the same. With an avant-garde offering, the store was an early pioneer in elevating obscure, unknown talent alongside the world’s biggest fashion houses. From its London home to Tokyo, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Singapore and Beijing, each store manages to remain unmistakably DSM.
