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Tuesday August 17th, 2010

Anthropologie Welcomes Customers to Its Headquarters for the First Time Ever, Greets Them With Anna Sui’s Smiling Face

Anthropologie Welcomes Customers to Its Headquarters for the First Time Ever, Greets Them With Anna Sui’s Smiling Face

I headed down to Philadelphia last night to spend some time with Anthropolgie co-presidents Wendy Wurtzburger and Wendy McDevitt, the retailer’s art and antiques buyer Keith Johnson, as well as designer extraordinaire Anna Sui.

The occasion? A special screening of Man Shops Globe, Johnson’s reality television show on the Sundance Channel. The series, in its second season, documents Johnson’s travels around the world as he shops for the most incredible antiques and artwork for Anthropologie’s stores. (He told me his most amazing find over the years was the interior of a music store in Germany. The company shipped the interior over the Atlantic and it’s been in storage for about ten years. It’s now being made into a room at Anthropologie‘s Fashion Island outpost. It’ll be ready at some point in 2010.)

This particular episode stars Anna Sui, who traveled with Keith to Syria.

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Published at 12:00 PM

Thursday October 1st, 2009

Fashion Is Fun

The Best Job EVER

I’ve never really had an answer to that dream job question, something involving traveling the world while writing about anything – food, fashion, people – would be up there. After seeing the way models live (the successful ones) I think I’d like that, too. But this guy, Keith Johnson, might have it best. Technically, he Read more →

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Tuesday October 7th, 2008

Anthropologie Gets a Show, Too

Usually when yet another fashion person decides to take their shit show to television, we groan, roll our eyes, feel sincere shock, but then set our TiVo anyway. But yesterday, we read that Keith Johnson, Anthropologie’s antiques buyer, will be getting his own show, and we weren’t disgusted. To begin with, it’s on the Sundance Read more →

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Published at 10:37 AM