Shop of the Week: Project No. 8

Project No. 8 is literally just that. In 2005, Elizabeth Beer and Brian Janusiak formed Various Projects, a multidisciplinary-design collaboration that has organized and curated seven other design projects. The store, located on a hushed Chinatown block, is their first full-fledged retail fashion experience. With floor-to-ceiling storefront windows, heated concrete flooring and a mutable interior, Project No. 8 could easily be mistaken for an art gallery or even a stage. But as you look closer, the space comes alive with people, clothes, accessories, books and miscellaneous objects. In addition to their own clothing line, Project No. 13, you can pick up À Détacher's natural-fiber angular frocks and Boudicca's sturdy tailored pieces. Or you can decorate yourself with New York–artist Chris Bundy's striking springbok-or impala-horn bracelets and Bless's ink stamps that read "diamondring" or "goldring" (cutest place to stamp -- your ring finger!). Snatch up a U.K. edition of Fergus Henderson's Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking (Bloomsbury; not available in the States). While you're at it, grab the one-of-a-kind blown-glass decanter and make it a night! 138 Division St., (212) 925-5599. Text and photo by Eugenia Park.