Life-style Model Kith Opens Downtown Flagship This Weekend

DOWNTOWN — Kith, a well-liked New York City streetwear and life-style model, is opening Friday simply steps off Downtown’s Magnificent Mile.

The brick-and-mortar flagship, 54 E. Walton St., will characteristic two flooring of Kith’s attire, equipment, footwear and life-style items for males, ladies and children, based on a press launch.

The storefront can even be dwelling to Kith Treats, a four-seat ice cream bar that’s an extension of the Kith brand. In addition to location-exclusive ice cream specials, the menu options build-your-own cones and waffle specials that includes do-it-yourself waffle cones and made-to-order Belgian waffles.

Ronnie Fieg, Kith’s founder and CEO, collaborated with architect Ben Porto of Porto Architecture to design Chicago’s first Kith location, based on a press launch. The inside design is personalized primarily based on the theme of every retail flooring.

The floor flooring, devoted largely to menswear, options darkish walnut millwork and a coffered ceiling. The second flooring, devoted to ladies’s clothes, has a lighter house with a customized chandelier centerpiece and lime-wash ceilings. A ladies’s accent room is described as a “soft space” with tufted wallpaper and mosaic tile flooring, based on a press launch.

Friday’s grand opening might be commemorated with a merch drop and sneaker collaboration with ASICS. Titled “World’s Fair,” the sneaker drop is a nod to the “shared heritage of the World’s Fair between Chicago (1933-1934) and Queens (1939, 1964).” The eight-shoe assortment was designed and impressed by previous host cities.

The assortment would be the solely footwear out there on the market Friday on the lads’s flooring, with shows working by way of opening weekend. That night, Fieg and ASICS will host a dialog about their collaboration and the designer’s longtime partnership with the model. Access to the speak might be restricted by way of a drawing for Vitality Loyalty Members on Kith’s cell app, based on a press launch.

Kith was established in 2011 in New York City by Fieg and has grown into a way of life model and specialty retailer. The model operates 17 different boutiques around the globe, together with 14 Kith Treats, one in every of which is a standalone retailer.

Kitch Chicago might be open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sundays.

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