OFF THE WALL

First there was the wartime-bunker-chic Leisure Centre, and now downtown has welcomed Off-white—a high-fashion streetwear retailer founded by Louis Vuitton artistic director Virgil Abloh—that could pass for an underground parking lot if you pulled the spare garment racks and shoes on crates. If you haven’t walked by it yet, that could be because the Alberni Street entrance is in an alley. Is this a novel fashion experience (we were getting bored of soft surfaces and colour anyways!), or a 4,300-square-foot, concrete cry for help? Either way, Vancouver’s retail therapy just got a lot more experimental. off---white.com