FASHION Magazine

If you go antique shopping on Amherst Street, as many Montrealers fed up with Ikea do, you’ll find the most exquisite little boutique that has nothing to do with furniture. Headquarters Galerie + Boutique (1649 Amherst St., 514-678-2923, hqgalerieboutique.blogspot.com), run by Angie Johnson and Tyson Bodnarchuk, the loveliest couple in town, is a two-floor space that gives exposure to Montreal artists (including Bodnarchuk) and tons of local designers (including Johnson).

At FASHION, we’re always on the lookout for a good design collab. So when, for their latest album, trippy indie tribe Animal Collective found both inspiration and title—Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino Records/Outside Music)—in a Frank Gehry-designed building by that name, we felt compelled to love it. Luckily, the Baltimore-based band of odd fellows is (finally) making it easy.