Kanye WestDepending on your feelings about global cult of personality Kanye West, you'll either want to get to or completely avoid Fitzroy and Bondi Beach this weekend.
As Vogue and others have noted, West advised his fans that he would be opening 21 'Pablo' pop-up stores, named for his recent album The Life Of Pablo, featuring a selection of merch from the acclaimed rapper's moonlit pursuits as a budding fashionista. The stores will have locations around the world, including Melbourne and Sydney.
21 PABLO STORES WORLDWIDE THIS WEEKEND LOCATIONS HEREhttps://t.co/tYuzqs7kJW
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) August 18, 2016
More specifically, the local branches will be set up at 209 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, and at Pacific, Bondi Beach, at 180 Campbell Parade. Both stores will be open from 10am to 8pm tomorrow, 19 August; 10am to 6pm on Saturday 20 August; and 11am to 5pm on Sunday.
As Billboard reports, West also announced this week that he would be launching the fourth season of his Yeezy fashion line at New York Fashion week in September, though we wouldn't be holding our breath on expecting any ahead-of-the-curve exclusives from that batch to be at the impending Pablo stores. (Although it's not like he's never surprised us before.)
On the global level, pop-ups will hit the streets in cities across the US including Portland, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, as well as in Toronto, Canada; European stops in London, Amsterdam and Berlin; Cape Town, South Africa; and Singapore.
