Gucci Fetes Dover Street Market Ginza Anniversary With Capsule Collection

Gucci is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Tokyo’s Dover Street Market Ginza, which opened its doors in March 2012, with an exclusive capsule collection. Designed by the Florentine fashion house’s creative director Alessandro Michele, the capsule includes three T-shirt styles, produced in a limited quantity of 10 pieces each, for a total of 30 unisex tops. In keeping with the eclectic spirit that the unconventional luxury department store — established in London’s Mayfair district back in 2004 by Comme des Garçons creative director Rei Kawakubo — shares with the new course of Gucci under the creative direction of Michele, the T-shirts combine a quirky mix of the brand’s signature motifs, such as the logo, the red and green web stripe, the GG symbol and the bee. Gucci x Dover Street Market Ginza capsule collection  Courtesy Photo The capsule will be available a Dover Street Market Ginza beginning March 18 and for each T-shirt sold the department will give its customer an exclusive necklace designed by Kawakubo to celebrate the store’s anniversary. This is not the first collaboration between Gucci and Dover Street Market Ginza, which occupies a six-story building previously housing an old-school Japanese department store. In October 2015, the Florentine fashion house customized Dover Street

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