In two months of work that felt more like play, we transformed that musty space into a sun-drenched store worthy of our friend's colorful designs.
From the Steve Jobs-designed cube to the point of entry on the GM plaza– which faces the Plaza Hotel and Grand Army Plaza to the bright, column-free shopping expanse below, with its iPod and Genius bars and its tables of supercool Macs and MacBooks, Apple appears to have met the challenge of creating a flagship store worthy of the distinction.
The bookstore, which closed in 1999, and its owner Herman Slater are worthy of note the store is described on Herman's Wikipedia page as "a major focal point of the neopagan community in the 1970s and well into the 1990s".
The once-active CB radios that connected the rally participants had gone silent as the miles outlasted our stores of worthy, marginally worthy, and completely inane topics.
But now the design district is attracting new retailers, deep-pocketed developers and plenty of shoppers, thanks to a slew of buzz-worthy restaurants, chic stores and daring art galleries opening alongside brand-new apartments and lofts.
"People tend to buy scarves in multiples," said Stefani Greenfield, a partner in Theodora & Callum, which sells generously scaled, beach-and-town-worthy scarves to stores like Scoop, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's.
For every primary-colored and museum store-worthy object in the exhibition, however, there's another with more serious implications: not every child can afford toys, and play takes on political meaning.
Any shoes, handbags and other leather goods that aren't store-worthy are also sold in bulk.
The company, the biggest user of organic cotton in the world, released an Exclusive Glamour collection of red-carpet-worthy looks in stores last week made from organic cotton, organic hemp and recycled polyester.
While swimsuit makers like Speedo, Juicy Couture and Ralph Lauren have traditionally marketed themselves on sex appeal alone, running ads with lithe women worthy of Sports Illustrated and stocking stores with relatively few styles, Lands' End has carved out a niche by confronting head-on the concerns about body image that plague the majority of women's swimsuit shoppers.
Can we trust that what God has in store for us is worthier of wonder and awe than even our deepest hopes?
