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In the town of Secaucus, New Jersey (which we like because it suggests a high-level meeting about oceans), there is a place where dreams are made—dreams of fully licensed, if slightly scuffed, design classics. We imagine this place to be at all times filled with directionally bespectacled people, many of whom as infants were soothed not by kitschy musical mobiles but by the comforting presence of a George Nelson Ball Clock. This place is the Design Within Reach Annex, which on Saturday, May 22, kicks off a two-day warehouse sale (restocked daily, they assure us). Grab a friend—preferably one with a car or better yet, a capacious private jet—and get there early, because DWR’s 12,000-square-foot discount design wonderland teems with “non-pristine” furnishings discounted up to 70% off retail price. As for carting that dinged Saarinen table home, you can arrange for delivery. DWR advises you to bring both a tape measure and an open mind.

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Petite in scale, though hardly diminutive in concept and artistry, Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf‘s retrospective spans 17 years of innovative and boundary-pushing fashion at Antwerp’s Studio Job Gallery.

The exhibit, comprised of more than 30 dolls—one doll to represent each collection they’ve done to date since their idiosyncratic brand’s formation in 1993—epitomizes Viktor Horsting and Rolf Shoeren’s eccentric, often quirky regard for fashion design, the notion of wearable clothing versus wearable art and its extension beyond the human form.

The Lilliputian examples include some of the designers’ most recognizable pieces to date, from a sensational all-white gown from the duo’s first haute couture collection (Spring/Summer 1998) to a full-body “Russian doll” cape from the Fall 199 collection (both pictured above), as well as an exquisite replica of the red quilted “duvet-and-pillow” coatdress from their much-publicized Fall/Winter 2005 collection.

In 2008, the London’s Barbican Centre exhibited a retrospective of Viktor & Rolf’s work, which also included a smaller, earlier collection of dolls modeling their clothes. Both exhibitions further prove the duo’s mastery of miniature costumes.

The show runs through 16 July 2010. See more images, including full-size versions of those pictured, after the jump.

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