T-shirts, Sneakers, Foam Hippos: Dover Street Market Makes Its Los Angeles DebutThe multibrand retail emporium will make its anticipated L.A debut Nov. 3 with buzzy local lines plus shops by Maison Margiela, Gucci and Palace.

[Collection]LOS ANGELES — “Long live brick-and-mortar. It’s more important than ever.” So says Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons International and chief executive officer of Dover Street Market, which is set to open its sixth location, in Los Angeles, on Saturday. Standing amid the 15,000 square feet of “beautiful chaos” his wife Rei Kawakubo has described and designed, Joffe is both abuzz with energy and coolly zen at the same time. The Los Angeles location at 606-608 Imperial Street, in the edgy though quickly gentrifying downtown Arts District, was one that had been on their minds for some time, although the Singapore store ended up coming together first. “Everything seemed to be, ‘Let’s just go with the flow,’ and everything at the right time and in the right place; we believe in that. I feel it’s the right time for L.A.,” he said. He’s certainly on point. With a clutch of early adopters such as Apolis, Guerilla Atelier (now closed), Alchemy Works, Hammer and Spear, and Hennessey + Ingalls paving the way for more recent entrants 3.1 Phillip Lim, Shinola and Wittmore, plus the nearby Row DTLA complex, the Arts District is emblematic of L.A.’s retail awakening. The city has led in experiential concepts,

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