Storecasting

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The Christian Lacroix store going in at 36 East 57th Street and Madison Avenue should be opening any day now. "A peek through its newly transparent windows shows a nearly completed interior including the designer's signature quirky details like red Venetian glass chandeliers...Though he has had his own label for 25 years, this will be the celebrated couturier's first freestanding boutique in New York, and only his second in the U.S. ever after his recently opened Las Vegas boutique." [The Shophound]