"When Dover Street Market opened down the street from Departamento at the end of 2018, many took it as a sign that Los Angeles had arrived as a global fashion city. That's the power of the specialty store started by Comme des Garçons creative director Rei Kawakubo and her husband, CdG president Adrian Joffe, which has become a beacon for avant-garde designers and driptastic dressers from Tokyo and New York (and now L.A.). Because Dover Street stocks an enormous quantity of runway fashion from the likes of Gucci, Balenciaga, Raf Simons, Sacai, and a host of Comme des Garçons brands, along with plenty of clothes made by upstart iconoclasts like Kiko Kostadinov and Craig Green, few stores are doing more to define fashion's bleeding edge."