One of New York’s most iconic skateboard companies just opened a new flagship store in NYC. Shut NYC opened Local 158 in the Lower Eastside. The store will carry mostly hard goods and some few select other brands.
158 Orchard Street
Between Stanton & Rivington
NYC
Make sure to check it out!

The Comme des Garcons Guerilla Store L.A. opened its doors this weekend. Another hot retail spot for the city, where a lot has been happening in the past months in terms of stores already.
The new store is just like most of these guerilla stores around the globe, very raw in terms of design, minimal and nothing like any other store in its surroundings. On your next L.A. trip, make sure to stop by.
(Pictures taken by DT)
After the jump many pictures of the location.

Head Porter is opening a new flagship store in Nagoya, Japan. This the the 3rd store after New York and Tokyo. It will be carrying both the Head Porter and the Head Porter Plus luggage collection.
Head Porter Nagoya
460-0008
Young-gu, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture 3-19-7
PROTECT4 Building 1F-2F
They will have the Snow White collection, that we reported about earlier on in store. Via Honeyee.

Japanese store Lump is the flagship store of the Japanese brand Whiz, that we have mentioned before at Highsnobiety already. The store has been renovated and the re-opening is of course being celebrated.
For the occasion Lump got together with Medicom to create some 100% Bearbricks. Furthermore, Whiz got together with Disney and with 7Stars on collaboration t-shirts. The store opens again tomorrow, 2nd of February! Via Honeyee.

Here some interesting news via Designboom, that Milan based concept store 10 Corso Como will be opening a second location in Seoul. The new location will be opening its doors in March 2008. Up until now, they only had one location in Milan since 1991, housing a store, hotel, book shop, gallery and restaurant. Above you see a first shot of the exterior of the new store!

There are nice stores out there and then there are amazing stores. When Italian interior design meets streetculture you can certainly expect something good to come out. One of the most interesting stores, not only in Italy, but all of Europe, to open its doors recently is back door Bottega in Bologna/Italy. Concentrating on a lifestyle that is all about Nike trainers and Jordans, they build a beautiful store fusing modern design with classic Italian interior.
Recently back door Bottega held the opening of the Nike Be True Dunk campaign and had a really nice setup prepared. Most of you were probably not there, so we give you a look right now. Eisaku Kito’s DIVA sculpture is part of the campaign, and they had several of them in store matching each Dunk color.
Check out the entire setup after the jump.

The Bape Store Shibuya recently went through some renovations and of course Wonderwall redesigned it and gave it an up to date look. Us being big fans of the work of the Tokyo based artists, we present you a couple of pictures of the new store.
Check out more after the jump.

Today we arrived in Barcelona for the Bread & Butter tradeshow. Expect regular updates thoughout the next couple of days. Here we give you a first teaser, a video tour of the Trustnobody Store Barcelona with the new Nike “Be True” setup.
See the video here at the Bread & Butter Winter ‘08 Video page!

New York already has one of the nicest A.P.C. stores in Soho, and now luckily they got another one, A.P.C. Surplus. The new store, located in Williamsburg, will be carrying will be acting as an outlet and will also carry special vintage one-offs, making it definitely a store to check out once in a while. Via Selectism.

A.P.C. surplus store, 33 Grand St., Brooklyn, (347) 381-3193, apc.fr
Make sure to take a look, it’s open now!

After the recent opening of the Undefeated US online store, their Japanese counterpart now also opened their own online store, carrying for the moment t-shirts and New Era caps of the Fall/Winter 2007 collection!