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The Ace Hotel NYC's New Store Will Stuff You Full of Haribo Gummis

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February 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM | by | Comments (0)

This Sunday might be Valentine's Day, but we've already found our true love: the about-to-open Opening Ceremony store at New York's Ace Hotel. It will welcome shoppers on Sunday actually, so we can forget our dinner plans.

The idea of this Opening Ceremony shop—the trendsetting store already has locations in Soho, LA and Tokyo—is to be a new sort of travel shop, where designers and well-respected brands can offer their take on souvenirs. Sure, most of those items will be out of the typical traveler's price range, but that's why this idea works so well in New York. The store is aimed at style-conscious locals and the hipsters and creative set that chooses to stay at The Ace when they visit New York.

Needless to say, Opening Ceremony's idea of a toiletry kit will deviate from the traditional, but what else will they literally have in store? Find out, after the jump!

Opening Ceremony's blog has done a great job of getting us excited for Sunday's debut by teasing with a few product reveals. Here's what we know so far:

· A Tumi collaboration that includes everything from leather luggage tags to laptop cases to full upright wheelies. And boy oh boy, we have never seen Tumi luggage this colorful.
· Condoms! This store will be a travel shop, remember? And you need prophylactics on the road..just in case. Opening Ceremony teamed up with condom company that lets designers create appealing packaging, which is what they did.
· A feather pen, which is actually the first collaboration that avant-garde French fashion label Maison Martin Margiela has done. It's just a simple white Bic pen, but it sports either an ostrich or goose plume.
· Haribo gummy candy will bring in more than just the hipsters, since we know tons of people who go "ooh" and "aah" over the crazy selections of Haribo in European supermarkets. Well, now we'll have it here.
· They'll have the cutest toothbrush kit you ever did see. There's even a choice of toothbrush color, and the whole kit is extremely unique, as far as toiletry kits go.
· McSweeney's book and periodicals will have their own corner at The Ace's Opening Ceremony, as will Criterion Collection DVDs and —something to snack on—Walker's crisps (we'll be there for these!).

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