The Spring Previews keep coming. This week, The Shophound took ourselves downtown to the Exhale Spa in the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District to get a look at what Camper has in store for us next season. 
The popular Spanish footwear brand keeps moving ahead. This season they are showcasing the "Ocean Race Collection" (above) developed for the sailing team Camper is sharing with Emirates Team New Zealand in the Volvo Ocean Race which is going on right now.
The treatment pools in the spa gave the scene a pleasantly muggy summery atmosphere. Other highlights include fresh collaboration collections from Jasper Morrison, 
Mugler designer Romain Kremer and a continuing team-up with Bernhard Willhelm. Other new developments include the casual brand's first actual high heel women's shoe that combines the continuing demand for chunky, high heels with Camper's reputation for comfort. for our trouble, We left with a big, red Camper beach towel and as much breakfast as we could scarf down.
Later that evening, we went back downtown to the Ramscale apartment in the West Village for Forever 21's preview. It always surprises us a bit to get invited by a company that we have written less than charitably about in the past, but who are we to turn down an open bar? The presentation though highly edited, was not unlike a visit to Forever 21, kind of random and trend-ish, with offerings divided into four categories. There was the Asian inspired "Tea Room", grungy "Rebel Yell", 20s and 30s "Retro Revival and "Sixties Sorbet". Most of the people there were busy trying on the jewelry samples that were on abundant display. We were busy trying get more of the tiny bacon cheeseburgers being offered by the willowy waitresses who, as it turned out, were also doubling as models. They sure are thrifty over there at F21, and we'll just leave it at that. We left with a pearl-beaded evening clutch ($17.80) which we later realized contained a gift card of as yet undetermined value. We're not exactly sure what to do with either, but it would be beyond unseemly for The Shophound to complain about insufficient swag.
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