Bode to Open Pop-up During Art Basel

Emily Bode is becoming quite the retail queen. The buzzy men’s wear designer is opening her first pop-up, a 1,129-square-foot space during Art Basel Miami Beach. The shop, at 2621 Northwest Second Avenue, is a partnership with Appear Here, a start-up that helps businesses rent pop-up spaces in major cities around the world. The Bode pop-up, which will be open from Dec. 6 to 8, follows the opening of a permanent 800-square-foot retail location on Hester Street in New York’s Chinatown that the designer unveiled two weeks ago. “This came about before we opened the store,” Bode said of the pop-up. She said she’d worked with Appear Here on various projects in the past and when she found out the company could secure space during the Miami art event, she jumped at the chance. The heavily trafficked area where the pop-up will be located will also be home to a lot of events during the show, she said. “We’ve never done any kind of activation in Miami and I’ve never been to Art Basel, but I know we have a lot of crossover with the art space, so we thought we’d try something new,” Bode said. She said not only do artists and

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