Uber-hip Dover Street Market to open in Singapore’s Dempsey

The facade of Dover Street Market’s China outpost called IT Beijing Market. Dover Street Market is poised to open its first outlet in Southeast Asia in the hip Singapore neighbourhood of Dempsey. The edgy fashion retail and concept store conceived by Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo will be part of a new retail and F&B development by COMO Lifestyle.

The Singapore branch will join an existing line-up of stores in London, Tokyo, New York and Beijing.

Citing COMO Lifestyle’s bid, CNA added that the new concept will be known as “COMO Dempsey.”

It will integrate Dover Street Market with several F&B outlets, including a Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant and bar, new restaurant concept COMO Cuisine and local Peranakan restaurant Candlenut.

No other details, such as projected opening date, were available at time of writing. COMO Lifestyle is part of Christina Ong’s luxury portfolio whose interests range from hotels to fashion. The Singapore businesswoman and her Malaysian-born husband Ong Beng Seng are valued at US$1.8 billion (RM7.7 billion) as of July 2014.