Fashion designer Zac Posen will set up shop at 874 Washington Street, between 13th and 14th streets, in the Meatpacking District this month, DNAinfo reported. Posen made the announcement on Twitter, saying “Save-the Date for the Z Spoke store opening on Aug 25th! Washington St. in NYC.”

The retail space was formerly home to Scoop Beach clothing store. There has been no official word on where Scoop will be relocating.

According to sources, this will be the designer’s first Z Spoke store, which features a collection that is priced lower than his regular up-market attire.

Terms of the lease deal were not released though a recent report said that the highest-quality retail spaces in the Meatpacking District averaged as much as $400 to $500 a square foot in July. [DNAinfo] [more]

Inside the Zac Posen-designed condo at 16 West 21st Street

In many ways, fashion designer Zac Posen created the interiors at new condominium 16W21 as though he himself would be living there.
An avid cook, the 29-year-old created his dream kitchen, he said, with a porcelain sink and free-standing island. He even went so far as to use his own possessions — including paintings by his father, artist Stephen Posen, and a signed, nude photograph of rocker Courtney Love — to decorate the model apartment he designed at the building, which will be publicly unveiled at an opening party tonight.
“I tried to sleep here last night,” Posen told The Real Deal half-jokingly, standing in a pink-and-red guest bedroom with a velvet canopy built into the wall. “I like how the colors work.” (See slide show from The Real Deal’s tour of the model unit above and see images and video of full-scale miniature model of the building peopled by tiny, impeccably dressed dolls after the jump.) [more]

Designer Zac Posen (credit: Jason Kibbler)

Fashion designer Zac Posen, 29, answered a few questions from The Real Deal as he prepares to unveil his interior design handiwork at new boutique condo development 16 West 21st Street. Sales at the F&T Group-developed project, headed up by Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Hagay Azoulay, will begin early next month, Posen’s camp said, but a red carpet event March 18 will mark the official opening. Posen remained mum about the furniture line he was reported to be launching this year, and a spokesperson said he’s put the project on hold. [more]