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Bath beers and blowdries: The next level of hybrid retail

Inside Retail

A hybrid retail concept goes beyond the traditional retail experience of stores displaying products, assisting customers with the selection and proceeding with the transaction. launched in 2015, is a combination of salon and bar where visitors can have a blow dry, up-style or makeup and have cocktails, champagne and canapés at the same time.

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What’s the Guochao trend and what does it mean for global brands in China?

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billion) by 2025, a hundredfold increase from 2015. Its unique brand ethos that employs traditional beauty rituals in the form of modern cosmetics has made it popular not only in China, but also in the international market. billion yuan ($4.1 Florasis (also known as Hua Xizi locally) is a high-end beauty brand based in Hangzhou.

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Marketing, art or design? Crafting deep experiences with 1kg studio

Design Wanted

We discuss & evaluate, dive into the client and its industry, set up a team, gather reference & inspiration material and distil all of that to a holistic concept that’s less about design and more about the full experience. If we can use recycled material or recycle our concepts we see it as a huge win.”

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A play between art, craft and design with Atelier Kaja Dahl

Design Wanted

Dahl graduated with a masters degree in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship from ECAL in 2015 , after completing her bachelor in Product and Interior design at Beckmans college of Design in Stockholm. Collaborating with companies on creating products and concepts, why focus on the meeting of craft and design, sculpture and production?

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“I designed objects following my feelings” – Interview with Italian designer & art director Raffaella Mangiarotti

Design Wanted

Mangiarotti has also held the position of art director at several other Italian furniture brands including Serralunga (2010-2015), Manerba (2014-2018). I developed many concepts that challenged established objects’ typologies, defining completely new forms. The artistic direction was then a natural consequence.”.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

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New York quickly became the epicenter of burgeoning new retail concepts. He believed that merchandise presentation was an art form. In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said, “The Midas of advertising has given artists freedom and independence.”. Gaslight lamps and cobblestone streets were the order of the day.