Artwear

Sterling Ruby designs Dover Street Market’s new Calvin Klein space
By Alex James Taylor | 27 July 2017

Dover Street Market New York has revealed a brand new Calvin Klein space designed by multimedia artist Sterling Ruby.

Housing the brand’s FW17 collection – and the debut offering from new creative director Raf Simons – the space comes as part of a wider ‘New Beginning’ transformation at DSM NY, introducing an additional 3,000 square-feet of retail space, including installations by Comme des Garçons‘ Rei Kawakubo, Eckhaus Latta, and Delfina Delettrez.

And the involvement of Sterling Ruby makes perfect sense. A longterm collaborator of Simons’ – from designing the first ever Raf Simons store in Tokyo in 2007 to the capsule denim collection in 2009 and then that collaborative collection in FW14 – the designer recruited the LA-based artist to design the set at his debut FW17 Calvin Klein show.

Here, Ruby has plastered the walls with frenzied drips and strokes of paint, creating that visceral and messy aesthetic the artist is known for – very much reminiscent of those killer bleach-splashed artists workwear pieces from the Raf Simons FW14 collection.


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