If you are anywhere in So. California, this might actually be the biggest three shopping days of the year. Yes, maybe more than Christmas because H&M is coming to town– TODAY– 4/12 opening not one but 2 doors at South Coast Plaza at noon.
What’s up with the two stores in this penultimate mall of luxe stores? One store is 20,000 square feet of men, women, "hot trend" men, women, children and infant clothing and accessories like you have never seen.
I was there yesterday and was able to walk the store and interviewed the US Director of Press for H&M so there will be a podcast –broken into sections– that will tell you more about why the 2 stores, what’s going on with H&M, their designer relationships and also about some of their more environmentally conscious/aware trends.
Also there is another store in the Bloomingdales wing that is an 8,000 square foot store that is a cherry picked women’s trend store. Consider it a spotlight on the hottest of the hot trends from H&M with some basics.
Both stores open at 12 noon with the first 200 shoppers gettingfree gift cards worth anywhere from ten to a couple hundred dollars as a surprise gift. Also there will be "special pricing" just for opening day. Just how long that special pricing lasts is a good guess
If you happen to miss the Costa Mesa action, you aren’t entirely out of the game! You can hit the Irvine Spectrum Center, Irvine Spectrum (junction of the 5 and 405 freeways) for another H&M Store that opens on Friday, 4/13 at 12 noon with the same prize for being one of the first 200 shoppers and special prices as well.
One of the coolest things I can tell you is that what you see in H&M one day will probably NOT be there the next week, so if you find something style savvy, snap it up! H&M gets shipments of goods DAILY and will have stock flowing out of the store super fast and there’s a lot to see.
So hit the roads, my peeps and head south to the OC! There’s a TON of parking there (free!) and lots of restaurants, shops and not one but TWO H&M stores to explore in South Coast Plaza with one more in Irvine Spectrum.
Check it out! You won’t be sorry!
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