Given Alexander McQueen's rep for over-the-top presentations—live wolves, anyone?—you would expect the designer's first L.A. shop, opening today, to fit right in with Tinseltown. You'd be mostly right. The 3,100-square-foot space has a cathedral-like atmosphere, thanks to its curved ceilings and copious amounts of open space. But it also includes a VIP room; a billboard above the store that will rotate artwork by the likes of Nick Knight, Sam Taylor-Wood, and David Bailey; and, finally, Robert Bryce Muir's Angel of the Americas, a nine-foot metal sculpture of a naked man whose top half will emerge from the skylights, while the lower half descends into the store. (Bring the kids.) The boutique will carry both men's and women's collections, accessories, shoes, and eyewear, in addition to exclusives TBA. McQ fans, however, will have to look elsewhere.
Alexander McQueen, open today at the corner of Melrose Avenue and Melrose Place, alexandermcqueen.com