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Retail Focus
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons, with founder Rei Kawakubo, notably launched the first pop-up store in Berlin in 2004, drawing crowds with normal retail-priced items and creating a sense of urgency that remains influential in shoppers today.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
“Was he a designer? A landscape artist? The answer is yes,” according to Barbican curator Florence Ostende. Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. A sculptor? Portrait of Isamu Noguchi, 4 July 1947. Buckminster Fuller.
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