“It should be fine,” says Kiko Kostadinov brightly last Friday afternoon — just as the urgent grind of a power drill sounds through the floor of his office. Beneath the new East London studio space Kostadinov and his team moved into in April, his third store is being fitted out. This Friday, 7 November, it will open with a show: the first ever to blend the menswear designed by Kostadinov himself with the womenswear created by Laura and Deanna Fanning.

The space is at 21 Whiston Road, near Columbia Road and Broadway Market. The studio occupies the first floor; the store below (mid-construction as we speak), will be shaped around a reassembled artwork by ongoing collaborators Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch. “It’s really an artwork recontextualized into a store,” Kostadinov says. “It’s exci

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