"We all go shopping to try on new identities, but it's not often that a retail experience feels utterly transportive. It did when I slipped on the pair of Charvet slippers provided in the changing room at Chez Olsen, also known as The Row store, on Melrose Place. With interiors designed by Montalba Architects, the West Coast home for Mary-Kate and Ashley's über-luxe, minimal men's and women's line resembles a modernist house that has been trucked down from the Hills, complete with a pool in a central courtyard, midcentury furniture throughout, and Man Ray prints hanging on the walls."