Fashion concept store Dover Street Market has opened in a warehouse building with hardly any windows in Los Angeles, creating an industrial backdrop for high-end clothing and installations.

Dover Street Market Los Angeles (DSMLA) is located in the city's Arts District in a nondescript brick building, which is painted white outside and features concrete floors, white tiled walls and exposed beams within.
The 15,000-square-foot (1,393-square-metres) across the ground floor was designed by Dover Street Market founder Rei Kawakubo, who also runs Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons. The designer's work was the subjective of The Met's fashion exhibition in 2017.

Named after the store's now-vacated first location on Dover Street in London, which opened in 2004, the series of retail spaces now includes six worldwide.
Each is arranged like a department store, with brands sectioned off from one another. Labels in LA include Nike, Maison Margiela, Off White by Virgil Abloh, Chanel and Raf Simons.

Kawakubo has designed all of the stores around the theme Beautiful Chaos, "the accidental and synergistic energy that results from DSM's community of creatives, designers and artists colliding under one roof," said a project description.

"I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos; the mixing up and coming together of different kindred souls who a...