Pop-up shops are nothing new in New York City. With insanely high commercial rents and an uncertain economic future, anyone sane would be wary about plunking down tens of thousands of dollars on a five- to ten-year lease. Hence the genius of a pop-up store. Taking up residence in a giant vacant storefront at 186 Orchard Street, Wish You Were Here is the newest summer addition to the trend of transient retail.
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Wish you were in New York
Tranny superstore
James Jeanette is a tranny who knows a thing or two about fashion, and he’s just opened his own store, Jennette’s. He first found fame wearing skintight rubber Gareth Pugh dresses when he used to man the door at Boombox and all those other places that fashion people go to feel cool. A Scottish-born council estate boy, Jeanette is from Aberdeen, just like Annie Lennox, who he dressed up as once at a fashion big-wig’s cross-dressing-themed birthday party. That kind of sealed his fate as an icon because a cross-dresser cross-dressing as a cross-dresser = fashion hero. He held the launch party on Tuesday. It ruled.
