Where to buy Comme des Garcons in Toronto

Downstairs at 310 Spadina, on a floor you can walk straight past at street level, Nomad hangs a wool tropical trouser from Comme des Garçons Homme Plus at $1,570 two rails from a Play tee with a heart on the chest at $110. Both are Comme des Garçons. One was cut for a Paris runway by Rei Kawakubo, and everyone who asks where to buy Comme des Garçons in Toronto means the other.

That gap is the whole problem. Comme des Garçons is a house of separate labels with separate factories and separate price ladders, so the Toronto map changes completely depending on which one you want. Lemaire is one line and one answer, which is why that guide is short. This one is a map.

The lines, in the order people confuse them

• Play, from 2002. Cotton jersey and lambswool with the heart on the left chest. Tees start at $110, the wool cardigan is $495 at Nomad, and the Converse collaborations run $119.99 to $200 depending on which shop you walk into.
• Shirt, from 1988. Shirting sewn in France, knitwear and tailoring in Japan. Panelled stripes, and a jacket that reads normal from ten feet.
• Homme Plus. Kawakubo's men's runway line: broken tailoring and four-figure trousers.
• Homme, from 1978, the house's first menswear. Workwear shapes and linen stripes, cut quiet.
• Wallet and Parfum. The SA-series zip wallets, made in Spain, and the fragrances.

Then there is the mainline, the Paris collection that stunned the press in 1981 and still argues for the house. Hold that one.

Play, which is everywhere and nowhere in particular

Nomad carries Play deepest, forty-three pieces on the lower level at 310 Spadina: the K-Way packable zip at $290, the emblem cardigan at $495, the mini emblem tee at $110. Read the label rather than the legend. The cardigan and the K-Way say made in Japan, and several of the emblem tees say only imported.

gravitypope, at 1010 Queen West, carries Play in the narrowest sense available: six Chuck 70s, high and low, all $119.99. Nothing else. A shoe store with a heart on the sidewall, priced that way.

Livestock carries no Play at all. What it carries is the part most people skip.

Shirt, the one sewn in France

Livestock, at 112 Spadina, open eleven to seven every day including Sunday, keeps six Shirt pieces: a cotton stripe at $440, the Andy Warhol print at $450, an oversized white pocket shirt at $250. Beside them sit a single Homme gima jersey at $380 and a shelf of Parfum, Rouge among it at $265.

Nomad runs twenty-six pieces of Shirt, four times Livestock's rail: panelled poplin at $420 and $440, tweed tapered trousers at $520, a wool nylon blazer at $835. Check the label. The shirts and the tweed trousers say made in France, the sweaters and the blazer say made in Japan. One line, two countries, two fits.

Capsule, at 69 Yorkville Avenue, is the expensive end of Shirt: a World Hope T-shirt at $190, Now Future trousers at $840, a slogan shirt at $1,150.

Homme Plus and Homme, the two that separate the city

Homme Plus is the collection people picture when they picture a Comme des Garçons show, and in Toronto it lives in one basement. Nomad's rail is twenty-nine pieces, every one of them made in Japan, running from a $75 logo sock to a georgette hooded jacket under motif embroidery at $4,500. The Nike collaborations sit at $320 and $385.

Comme des Garçons Homme, the quiet one, lands at Capsule: baggy denim shorts at $760, linen stripe trousers at $1,100, a linen stripe chore jacket at $1,520, a raw indigo denim bomber at $1,690. Capsule also has Junya Watanabe MAN, where a patchwork short-sleeve shirt runs $1,330. The Homme clothing comes in medium and large only, which tells you who Capsule thinks is walking in.

The mainline does not land here. Comme des Garçons keeps its own stores in eleven Japanese cities and nowhere else, and Dover Street Market, the house's shop since Mayfair in September 2004, has seven addresses: London, Ginza, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Beijing, Singapore. The nearest is New York.

Toronto sells the heart everywhere and the clothes that earned it in one basement.

Sizing, which is where the money goes wrong

Nothing here is sized by the numbers, and the letters do not mean what they mean on Ossington. Nomad's Play runs small to XXL and photographs a six-foot-two, 190-pound model in an extra-large long-sleeve tee, so size up once and expect a high armhole. Shirt goes the other way, generous through the body with a long sleeve, and your usual letter is right.

Homme Plus is the expensive mistake. It is cut for a shape rather than a size, and a small can be wider than a large from another house. Nomad's rail stops at extra-large and some pieces stop at large, so the room for error is a fitting room, not a return window. Try it on. If you are still working out what you want the clothes to say before you spend $1,570 on trousers, the luxury language quiz is faster than a Saturday of trying things.

The tags settle arguments. Shirt codes open with F, Homme Plus with P, Homme with H, Junya Watanabe MAN with W: Nomad's tropical trouser is PR-P018, Capsule's chore jacket HQ-J027.

The practical part

Nomad is at 310 Spadina Avenue, Unit L01, noon to six and dark on Sundays, which is the constraint the whole trip bends around. Livestock is at 112 Spadina, five minutes down the same street and open seven days, so the two fit one ride on the Spadina car. Capsule is 69 Yorkville, eleven to six, closed Sunday, a walk up from Bloor. gravitypope at 1010 Queen West earns the trip only for the Chucks.

Homme Plus and Homme arrive in one delivery a season and sell through in sizes, so by February the rail still looks broad and the medium is gone. Check the country on the label and the sleeve against your own arm. For who else buys at this level, the boutique guide covers the rest of the street.

Common questions

Where can you buy Comme des Garçons in Toronto?

Nomad at 310 Spadina carries Play, Shirt, Homme Plus and Wallet, Capsule at 69 Yorkville carries Shirt and Comme des Garçons Homme, Livestock at 112 Spadina carries Shirt and Parfum, and gravitypope at 1010 Queen West carries the Play Converse and nothing else. There is no Comme des Garçons store of the house's own in the city. The womenswear mainline is not stocked in Toronto.

Is there a Dover Street Market or a Comme des Garçons store in Canada?

No. Dover Street Market has seven stores, in London, Ginza, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Beijing and Singapore, and the closest to Toronto is New York. Comme des Garçons runs its own shops only in Japan.

How does Comme des Garçons sizing run?

Comme des Garçons sizes by letter, small through extra-large, with no numeric sizing on shirts. Play is cut close, and Nomad photographs a six-foot-two, 190-pound model in an extra-large tee, so most people take a size up from their usual. Shirt is fuller through the body with a long sleeve, and Homme Plus is shaped rather than sized, which makes the fitting room the only reliable method.

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