A sensation in U.S. since the early 1980s, Alaïa is back with a New York City store that celebrates the American art and design scene.
The sleek, gallery-like boutique at 149 Mercer St. in SoHo displays works by Robert Rauschenberg, Mike Kelley, Jonathan Horowitz and Donald Judd, whose foundation is a stone’s throw away.
It opens Saturday amid an accelerated retail push for the Richemont-owned fashion brand, which is gunning to…