The Opening Ceremony Sample Sale Line Almost Reaches the East River

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Bad news if you were planning to make a mid-afternoon break from work to get your hands on some of those surrealist dresses and under-$100 samples we found yesterday: The line to get into Villain, the Opening Ceremony sale's new home, almost reaches the East River.

To be fair, it's already pretty close to the shore in the first place, but as of 1:30pm, the line was about 60-or-so strong. Luckily, however, the people at the very front of the line said they'd only been waiting for about 30 minutes. Here's a bonus shot: