All the recent discussion regarding COS has spurred my interest in visiting a retail location (I've been to their stores in AMSTERDAM, and am a fan. I liked the looks Angie highlighted last week, and know they would suit me. I purchased some very wide leg navy slacks, and an oversized sweater there this summer)---and I'm going to be in Pasadena next week for a conference. The COS website shows two stores, very near each other in Beverly Hills?---I don't know the area, but it looks like one is on Beverly, and one is in the Beverly Center. Does anyone know if one store has a larger selection, or would be better to visit than the other? Thank you!

UPDATE! --- I am home now from my trip to California, and I ended up going to BOTH COS stores and thought I'd post the findings in case anyone else runs into this post. I decided to go to the Beverly Center, operating under a few assumptions which turned out to be false: that the parking would be easy, that a newer store would be a better store, and that the mall would have lots of other stores to pique my interest. The Beverly Center charges to park in its garage, and the retail stores do NOT validate. This would be a major drawback for me if I lived in the area, and it seems counterintuitive if brick and mortar stores want to attract business, but there you have it. I'm quite resistant to the notion of paying to park at a shopping center, and understand that's my own "thing". The COS store itself seemed small--- but beautifully arranged by color with plenty of room to browse the collection. The employees were all young, and quite thin. There was one other customer, and she was older and larger, as am I. The employees were helpful, but discreet, which I appreciate. I took 7 items into the fitting room---a pair of wide legged cropped black pants, with a fussy tie at the waist that bombed the look---which in addition to being wide legged and cropped, also had a half panel to make it look a big like a midi skirt. It was a perfectly fine bottom to pair with the tops---5 sweaters and a beautiful blouse. All of the sweaters were big---which I prefer. One was sedate from the front, and then had this enormous twisted knot of material in the back--quite dramatic, but overwhelming, and I imagine that if you were sitting in a chair with a back on it (the theater, in my case) it would be like sitting with a backpack on. The blouse took me by surprise: it looked so architectural, and it fit, and it was a good color (inky) but there was a certain something about it that made me think of a court jester or a clown, so it had to stay after I wore it around the fitting room and looked at it from all angles. I purchased a v-neck gray sweater, and asked the clerk for information about the OTHER COS store and received a very vague response: to the effect of, "was I looking for something in particular". He did say the store on Beverly was their "flagship", which made me want to visit it. It was very close by---parking looked hairy, but in fact, I slid right into a spot and prepared to pay the meter when I saw that the previous person had left ample time on the meter for my looky look. This store was lit differently (real light, v. artificial mall lighting) and the clothes again were grouped by color and at the time, I thought that they had about 50% more or different apparel from the mall store. Again, the employees were young and trim, and there was one other shopper---an older woman, who was absolutely TEARING through the racks grabbing things and commenting on what a big hurry she was in. I was a little overwhelmed in the second store, and was pleased with the sweater I purchased from the mall store, so I didn't end up buying anything else---but if I were advising anyone, I'd recommend the location on Beverly over the Beverly Center. Afterwards, I meandered down Beverly people-watching in the glorious sunshine, and was happy to be there.