Gucci Icon-Temporary Store Opening in London

In less than a week, the iconic Gucci Ronson shoes from the Gucci Icon-Temporary range will be available in London. It marks a homecoming for Mark Ronson for having his collaborative shoes with Gucci available for his fellow mates. This is the third stop for Gucci Icon-Temporary store after New York and Miami. The store is planned to open on 22nd April 2010 at Covent Garden and will be graced by a fantastic opening party with Britain’s who’s who.

As with the stores in New York and Miami, Gucci will introduce new Gucci Ronson shoes specific to the London store only. This time around, there will two new designs available in London as seen in the pictures below. Two very different materials are being used as one is a tweed fabric ankle top sneakers and the other a patented black and white polka dots in dual tones.

As quoted from Frida Gianni, the collaboration with Mark Ronson seems natural as he has a great eye for design and an amazing knowledge of sneaker history. All the other customised services will also be available and each shoes purchase will come with a limited edition bag and a 12-inch vinyl of Mark Ronson’s music. If you are visiting London during this period, be sure to make a stop at Earlham Street, Covent Garden or ask your Londoner mates to get a pair for you.

Gucci Icon-Temporary store in Miami

With the success of its first Gucci Icon_Temporary store in New York, the second installment of this moving store opened at Miami fashion district. Following Innit’s review on the New York store,  this store also features 18 styles of exclusive sneakers including a special edition new Gucci Ronson sneaker that is only exclusive to the Miami store as the picture below. Also, all Gucci Icon-Temporary shoes come in a special box packaging that is designed specifically for the city.The leather tag on the shoe laces can also be customised with the customers’ initials, making it more exclusive.

As with the store outlook, it follows the same consistency of the NY’s store, clean white wash walls with Gucci’s signature webbing with the limited editions shoes being highlighted as the center piece. Of course music is a must at the store as it is a collaboration of Music and Fashion, hence a DJ deck is presence spinning exclusive tunes that Mark Ronson has produced for Gucci. A 12-inch vinyl of the Gucci Ronson music will also be included with every purchase of the Gucci Icon-Temporary shoes.

Gucci Ronson Shoes Debut at Crosby Street NY

Following up with our article on Gucci Ronson shoes, the first of the fashion and music collaboration shoe has revealed itself end October 2009 in New York city simultaneously with Gucci’s traveling pop-up sneakers store. This is the first for Gucci to introduce a temporary flash sneaker store that will travel the globe making the limited edition shoes available in major cities. In every location, Gucci will introduce a new Mark Ronson collaboration sneaker in each city in addition to the 18 sneakers under the Gucci Icon Temporary style that consist of 16 men’s style and 2 women’s.

A metal dog tag in silver or gold comes together with each sneaker hanging from the lace and customers can engrave their initials onto the customised leather tags on the laces. Mark Ronson is also throwing in a limited edition 12-inch vinyl record with tracks personally selected by Ronson with every purchase of the Gucci Ronson sneaker.

The opening of the Crosby Street’s store was graced by celebrities and musicians such as Mary J. Blige, Wyclef Jean, Mischa Barton, Claire Danes and Karl Lindman. We heard the turn out at the launch party wasn’t fantastic as it was raining in New York that evening or was it due to some other reasons? Ho hum….

At each location, the flash sneaker store will only be open for 2 weeks. So if Gucci flash store is in your city, run over there and get your feet at these luscious sneakers.