Comme des Garçons guerrilla store

Owners Brett Westfall and Tak Kato created an urban sculpture with fluorescent lights and grocery store carts.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Despite its industrial shell, the store feels a bit like a Goodwill outpost — with disparate items scattered on old furniture (check out the cool Junya Watanabe slides in the foreground).  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Still, Comme de Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo’s dark, hyper-artsy collections are the shop’s focal point.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A cowhide belt with a buckle festooned with metal medallions, $198.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Colorful Nike for Junya Watanabe sneakers are displayed on a grocery cart tipped on its side.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

A tutu-inspired Comme de Garçons skirt, $1,545, is emblematic of Kawakubo’s penchant for the darkly romantic.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Who would guess that this gritty, flier-strewn alley — the entrance to the guerrilla store — would lead to $2,000 jackets?  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)