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The Adoption of Pop-Up Stores by Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

The concept of pop-up stores has a rich and diverse history, stemming from various cultural and commercial phenomena spanning centuries. From avant-garde installations to collaborative showcases with renowned artists or designers, pop-ups empower luxury brands to express their distinctiveness in captivating and unconventional ways.

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Marimekko creative director talks collabs, stores and more

Inside Retail

Rebekka Bay is creative director of Finnish fashion and homewares brand Marimekko. In just the last few weeks, you’ve launched collections with the likes of Ikea, Adidas and the artist Landon Metz. We have artist collaborations, and I always think about them as building the future of Marimekko.

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Crafting luxury brand narratives through popup stores

Retail Focus

With the customers’ increased demand for novelty and uniqueness, brands could be inclined to present concepts that meet their needs. Their pop-up experiences range from presenting fashion collections to immersive installations that give life to the brand’s iconic designs and the vision of its founder, Christian Dior.

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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. The Blow Bar concept is simple yet complex. But the persistence of what I believed was a perfect concept was what pushed me to keep going.”. Blow Bar Co.,

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Web Exclusive: Seventy Years of Vision, Passion and Style

VMS

From an early age, Christian Dior dreamed of becoming an artist. As such, the question must be asked: Is fashion design an art form? Through the aesthetics of emotion, this dream-weaver created a fashion empire that greatly impacted our culture and sparked our aspirational desires. If so defined, Dior clearly lived his dream.

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Design is helping new age chewing gum stand out from plastic predecessors

Design Week

When Dearness Only branded Milliways plastic-free chewing gum however, Taylor says the team approached it from a “literary” perspective at first, rather than a graphic one. The branding also includes artistic references to gum’s Mesoamerican heritage, as well as animals and star constellations.

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Sustainability, Well-being, and the Building Blocks of a Biophilic Workplace

All Work

Autonomy and Choice From an individual human perspective, flexibility is ultimately about choice, about autonomy, about the agency the individual has—yes, to modify—but also, to have the mobility to move to new environments in a manner that suits their occupational preferences, physical comfort, and task requirements.

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