Special Relationship

Shoppers still mourning the closure of concept store Colette can get a temporary fix, with a new Paris pop-up store by Sacai that reunites creative director Chitose Abe with former Colette creative director Sarah Andelman.

The “Bonjour Sacai” temporary store, scheduled to run from

Feb. 12 to March 9, will kick off a worldwide sequence of Hello Sacai pop-up stores this year in key cities in Europe, Asia and the United States where the brand does not have its own retail stores.

Located on Rue de Richelieu, across from popular Japanese udon bar Kunitoraya, the French space will feature Sacai's spring women's and men's collections, limited-edition kid's and lingerie lines, and collaborations with local brands such as A.P.C., Petit Bateau and Hervé Chapelier.

Andelman, who now heads her own consultancy, Just an Idea, also reunited Abe with jeweler Charlotte Chesnais and ceramics maker Astier de Villatte, who collaborated with Sacai in the past.

The pop-up will carry the exclusive prelaunches of Sacai's latest collaboration with Nike, a Waffle Daybreak and LDV hybrid shoe, and custom-beaded BeatsX wireless earphones by Beats by Dre.

Sacai asked Gelchop, the studio that makes all of its store furniture and fixtures, to create bespoke pieces for the space, which will feature a café run by specialty coffee shop Honor. A corner will carry limited edition pieces created with Hiroshi Fujiwara of Japanese brand Fragment under the Sacai (not Sacai) label.

Andelman said the space was like a continuation of the Jardin Sacai takeover of Colette, shortly before its definitive closure in December 2017.

“After many years of collaboration between Sacai and Colette, I'm very happy Chitose continues our nice relationship with this project,” she said in a statement. “The eclectic mix will give to the pop-up a unique vibe.”

Future pop-ups are to feature products inspired by each location, which will also be available in limited runs online. — J.D. treatment for children.

Each year, event sponsor Neta-porter has hosted a shopping drive in support of the luncheon's initiatives — and each year, the drive has raised more money than the year before.

“In addition to hopefully making our customers happy and delivering beautiful things to them on a daily business, on a parallel track it's so important that we're giving back to our local communities,” said Net-a-porter president and honorary event chair Alison Loehnis. “When we met the team from Society of MSK it was really such a perfect fit, we were in such admiration for what they were doing.

This lunch is such a fantastic opportunity to help them raise funds and raise awareness.”

The timing is also particularly convenient, coinciding with the start of New York Fashion Week.

“It'll start tonight for me with Tom Ford and then it will run for the next week, and then it's back to London, and then we go from there,” said Loehnis, a New Yorker turned Londoner. “This is where it all starts: It all starts with product, amazing designers creating beautiful things.” — KRISTEN TAUER