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Topshop will be opening a store in NYC this September. The fast-fashion retailer is set to open it’s first state-side Topshop/Topman store. The store has been talked abour for a while.

Topshop’s owner, Philip Green is ambitious for this to b e the beginning of a global rollout.

The location is 478 Broadway in New York’s SoHo.

Topshop joins Uniqlo, fast-fashion retailer from Japan, which recently opened a store in SoHo.

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The Billionaire Boys Club/ Ice Cream NYC Flagship store is now open.

Pharrell Williams has teamed up with Nigo (the mastermind behind A Bathing Ape) to open the first state-side BBC/IC store.

The opening was followed by a  GQ Magazine sponsored dinner at Cipriani and a party at the Bowery Hotel.

Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream
456 W. Broadway, nr. Houston St.; 212-777-2225

The collaboration gravy train rolls on.

Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf will be designing a line of luggage for Samsonite Black Label.

The IHT reports that, “Rolf Snoeren and Viktor Horsting has been tapped by the iconic travel brand to create a Black Label collection for 2009 - following the example of Alexander McQueen, whose skeletal sculptures created the coolest of wheely bags for the company.”

The designers confirmed that the line will include both men’s and women’s designs. Also, expect the cult design duo to infuse the collection with their signature quirkiness.

“We are working on the idea of ‘happy travel’ - trying to do something more naïve and personal,” Snoeren tells the IHT. “A lot of luggage is very technical and impersonal - it’s a challenge.”

Viktor & Rolf To Design Bags for Samsonite [IHT]

NY-bases menswear collective the Cast, has opened a shop on the L.E.S. of Manhattan this past weekend.

Ryan Turner and Chuck Guarino are the duo behind the label and are referring to the store as a ’speakeasy’.

The Cast is located at119 Ludlow Street NYC, Lower Level.

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Manolo Blahnik will be entering the realm of men’s shoes after a seven year hiatus.

The shoe legend will be designing a small six-shoe collection due in stores February 2008.

“It’s not a big collection,” the designer tells Vogue UK. “There are some simple sandals in beautiful materials, and a few classics - with a twist. I thought it was time to bring back some colour into the male wardrobe.”

The designs certainly seem for the bold at heart. The collection includes a red suede Oxford brogue, leopard print sandals and what appears to be a blue, open-toe, lace-up, sandal.

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Dolce & Gabbana’s ‘The One’ will be available for men in March 2008.

Stefano Gabbana tells WWD that the fragrance will be launched by actor Matthew McConaughey.

“I wanted to create a real man’s fragrance,” Gabbana told WWD.

“I wanted it to be a classic — not a banal classic, but a classic men’s fragrance that would last for years and be the type of scent that women adore,” added Gabbana.

Sources tell WWD that the fragrance could reach global retail sales of $100 million the first year.

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