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Vancouver City Editor May Globus is obsessed with the sartorial and all that surrounds it: art, design, culture, music and film. Oh, and she really likes writing about it, too. A left coast girl at heart, her Sweetspot finds just might show why the westside really is the best side.

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the view from vancity by May Globus | Vancouver (Sep.01.10)    


The pop-up shop has its roots in retail and fashion, as an answer to the public's voracious appetite for new things at a quick pace.

This blink-and-you'll-miss-it store concept has since become a regular marketing tactic for brands, but the interest in them still remains high, as people continue to show signs of consumer ADD. So what, you ask, defines a pop-up? Here are several indicators:

- The utilization and complete transformation of an empty retail space or gritty, downtown venue.
- A cool collaboration between a brand and a designer or artist.
- Limited-edition collections.
- A tenure of four months of less.
- Crowded, raucous launch parties.

Pop-ups in this town have been popular over the past few months, with the first major one of 2010 being the Roots x Douglas Coupland set up in the space beside Goodfoot on Powell Street. After a short but sweet existence, it shuttered, only to have a couple more sprout in the Gastown and Yaletown areas. Here are three worth dropping in on: 

Monoshop: Provisional. Open Thursday to Saturday from 12pm-5pm, this pop-up features the latest Mono series and projects. Designer Heather Martin teamed up with The Parking Sport, street artist Office Supplies Incorporated, film and photography collective Gene Doe, artist Jeremy Hof and other creatives to launch the space. Head to Gastown for a gander soon though, because this place closes on September 11.
6 E. Cordova St.

lily + jae. Designer Judith Feller and One of a Few proprietress Michelle Rizzardo launched the lily + jae pop-up at the Gastown boutique last week, prompting a crush of the city's coolest girls to drop by to pick through the Fall 2010 collection, located upstairs in the loft built originally for a Lifetime Collective pop-up earlier this year. Be sure to check out the adorable water color paintings of the fall collection on the wall opposite the loft stairs. Added bonus: you get to peruse all the other hip labels -- think Lover, Kaylee Tankus and Designers Remix -- that Rizzardo has hanging from her racks, too.   
354 Water St.

One Hundred Days. Restauranteur Peter Girges and OPUS Hotels president John Evans put their heads together for a fresh take on the pop-up by opening One Hundred Days, a temporary restaurant in the old Elixir Bistro venue. While developing a new restaurant to replace Elixir, Girges and Evans have commissioned local graffiti artist Vince Dumoulin during this transition time to transform the stripped down space (and temporary boite) into his own personal artwork, while chefs update the menu (recommendation: the Kick-Ass Burger) to reflect Dumoulin's constantly changing canvas. Though it's only open for just, well, 100 days, look out for the permanent restaurant to debut sometime in early 2011. 
350 Davie St.

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