There was a time when the “flagship” was meant to be a promotion of the brand’s design values, offering cultural and public experiences that resembled museums and laboratories more than shopping malls. ANY’s design for the first permanent installation of the nomadic, radical art-gallery-fashion-store Café Forgot emphasizes the brand’s ethos: always different, always propelled by the energy of new designers and always resisting the conventions of what a store should be. The store’s design features a store-length wallpaper to showcase the store’s designers and a motorized merchandising display that changes at the click of a button, offering a different experience each visit...
