Kanye West and Jay-Z are keeping it interesting. After the digital release earlier this week, they are opening a pop-up store space in New York’s Soho district for the physical album release today. Located at 201 Mulberry Street in NYC, the store front is wrapped in the same gold graphics that Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci had already produced for the album cover. Inside the retail space you will find the Maybach that you saw in the ‘Otis’ video, on display. Apparently the store will stay open until Sunday and rumors are circulating, that Hov might actually make an appearance there tonight.

Watch The Throne Pop-Up Store NYC
201 Mulberry Street
10012 New York City

Photography: Jacob Breinholt/Highsnobiety

The store should have opened its doors right about now!

This week at his been announced that Paris brand and creative agency Surface To Air will be opening a new retail space in New York City. The space will be located at 27 Mercer Street and will open on September 8th, the day of the next Fashion’s Night Out.

Also the same day a new Kid Cudi video will be released, that was produced by Surface 2 Air, in which Cudi wears a leather jacket that he designed in collaboration with the Paris brand, seen here above on the image. The interior of the store will look much like their Paris flagship.

Surface 2 Air New York
27 Mercer Street
Soho, New York

Lots is happening in the retail world these days. WTAPS has announced their new Tokyo flagship store, Supreme is opening in London and now Nigo’s new brand, Human Made, has also announced their first flagship store in Tokyo. When and where the store will be opening its doors, is not out yet, but we will of course keep you posted.

Today we get a first look at the facade of the upcoming Supreme London Store. The store will mark the opening of the very first European flagship store of the New York brand, which has of course been anticipated for many years. Apparently the store will be opening its doors on Peter Street in the coming month. We will of course keep you posted!

WTAPS has just announced a new flagship store. Entitled ‘Guerilla The Incubation Period’ (GIP in short), the store will be located in the Shibuya area of Tokyo and will be the next chapter after the Blackflag store. Until now WTAPS was usually sitting next to Neighborhood in the Hoods stores around the globe. We will keep you posted on the opening of the new store and can hopefully also give you a look inside soon.

After years of concentrating on international retail expansion, opening stores in Berlin, Vienna and another shop in Denmark, Wood Wood has come back to their home turf.

Yesterday the Danish brand presented their all new store in Copenhagen to the public. A wide spread space, overall kept very clean, yet divided into different spaces, allowing them to present the various brands, brand categories better than ever before. From dedicated cosmetics and sneaker spaces, to a pop-up corner by Paris brand The Cool Cats, the new Wood Wood store holds a lot of surprises for its fans and clients. Overall a fantastic upgrade and only worthy of the great brands that the store carries.

Wood Wood Copenhagen Concept Store
Grønnegade 1
Copenhagen
Denmark

We give you a first detailed look of the new store after the jump.

Today Vans and DQM announced a retail partnership store New York City. The Vans DQM General will open its doors September 2011 in New York City’s SoHo district. Located at 93 Grand Street, the historic space was designed in the late 1800’s by John Snook, who also designed the first Grand Central Station. We cannot wait to see the final space and will of course report of the opening. This marks the first Vans dedicated retail space in New York City.

Vans DQM General
93 Grand Street
SoHo, New York City

The practice of lining up for shoes outside the store on the sidewalk in the wee hours of the morning hasn’t occurred in some time, but it was alive and well at the opening of the brand new SUPRA NYC store located at 4 Prince St. in the heart of SoHo. People started camping out shortly after 3 a.m. the night before and, by opening, the line of SUPRA fans stretched all the way down the block. The store marks the first move of the fast growing footwear brand into retail, with a Paris store having opened the same week. At opening, they released a special New York City Vaider sneaker, which we already presented here.

Supra NYC Flagship Store
4, Prince Street
SoHo, NYC
USA

Take a detailed look inside the new Supra NYC Store after the jump.

On September 9, 2011 Undefeated will set up shop at HUF’s former address of 516 Hayes Street in San Francisco. Thanks to Eddie Cruz, we have a first peek at the sneaker wall, as illustrated by Brent Rollins. That’s all we can show you for now, but check back here in the coming weeks for a full look inside the shop.

Last Friday the Nike Bowery Stadium in New York unveiled “The Wave”, a surf/skate installation based around their summer ‘Just Do It’ action sports campaign.

The retail component of Stadium reflects surf and skate culture featuring a curated selection of Nike action products. Stadium MFG offers the opportunity to customize core products from the Nike Range, including t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, board shorts and other apparel. Collections of skate and surf stickers are displayed to provide inspiration and share the history of East Coast surf/skate culture.

Throughout the ‘Just Do It’ summer season, Stadium will host special programming including lectures, live musical performances, film screenings, product launches, and mentoring workshops. Weekly film showings will balance classic surf and skate movies with Nike team flicks.

Celebrating the local surf and skate community, Stadium aims to deliver a culturally creative point of view and an interesting twist on product, performance, innovation and design.

Have a look inside the space in our gallery.