vatche
Senior Member
Is it me or does it Look like there's finally some activity on bloor?? With these 2 announcements. Dolce and Stuart.
Puma. I'm pretty sure the bloor montblanc is one of their top performing stores.
DOLCE & GABBANA Opening Free-Standing Toronto Store
Dolce & Gabbana will open it first free-standing Canadian store at 111 Bloor Street West. The building is 6945 square feet, and the store will occupy most of the space over two floors. Dolce & Gabbana confirms the store will include a full range of men's and women's fashions, accessories and footwear.
Toronto will be the sixth North American city to have a free-standing Dolce & Gabbana store. Dolce & Gabbana has free-standing boutique locations in Bal Harbour Florida, Beverly Hills California, Las Vegas Nevada, New York City and Short Hills, New Jersey.
Dolce & Gabbana currently has a women's shop-in-store at Holt Renfrew's Bloor Street flagship location. Our Holt Renfrew insider says that, to the best of their knowledge, the Holt Renfrew Dolce & Gabbana shop-in-store will remain.
The 111 Bloor Street building is a reconfigured heritage building that previously housed a Louis Vuitton boutique (which recently moved to 150 Bloor W) and before that, a multi-brand mens/women's retailer called Giorgio Couture.
We will be announcing other Bloor Street retail tenants once locations are confirmed. One we can reveal now is Stuart Weitzman at 151 Bloor Street West in space currently occupied by The North Face. Others include an Italian footwear/accessories design house and a French fashion house which recently acquired a new fashion designer.
Dolce & Gabbana website: www.dolcegabbana.com
Puma no longer exists I thought? It's now North Face. I really hope Stuart Weitzman replacing North Face (it hasn't been on the street for long, though), it would be such a shame to lose Montblanc or Ports. Fantastic confirmation of Dolce and Gabbana
It's definitely North Face. I've been living under a rock apparently since I didn't even know they were closed/closing.
What's more interesting is this article posted by Retail-Insider...
http://www.retail-insider.com/2012/12/dolce-gabbana-opening-free-standing.html
So I stand corrected, Toronto will be D&G's 6th freestanding store not 5th. I miscounted. More importantly, the Italian footwear designer can really only be Ferragamo and the French fashion house with a new head designer can only be Dior. Someone jump in if you think I'm way off base here.