The Sundance Channel is getting a new travel show...sorta! We're imagining it as like if Anthony Bourdain was a shopper and not an eater, since the series titled "Man Shops Globe" follows the buyer-at-large, Keith Johnson, for international chain Anthropologie around the world as he sources unique and vintage finds for the stores. The eight-part series premiers on October 7 at 10pm.
For any girl or reluctant guy who has spent time in an Anthropologie store, you'll understand how this pairing of TV show and retail buyer matches; an Anthropologie is like a global finery rummage sale, with some pretty $300 frocks peppered around and $250 cutesy cardigans to match. The stores love to show off large-scale furniture as well, like antique four-poster beds swiped from estate sales in the south of France, or patchwork armchairs specially assembled in South Africa. All (non-clothing) products usually boast some such nomadic history, and it's Keith's job to secure these items from bazaars all over.
Where he's headed, after the jump.
The eight-episode series will take one destination per episode, beginning in the cut-throat Paris markets. Other episodes are as follows: South Africa, Turkey, Holland/Belgium, India, UK, Tunisia and Argentina. We swung by the premiere party yesterday evening at the Anthropologie store in Rockefeller Center and briefly caught the Tunisia episode playing on a TV; we were especially happy that the show ends by filling you in on how his purchases went and whether or not the lines were picked up by the store.
The first episode airs on October 7 and continues every Wednesday at 10pm until they run out of episodes.
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