article thumbnail

New Balance opens its first ‘Grey Store’ in Asia Pacific

Inside Retail

Sports footwear and apparel manufacturer New Balance has opened its first Grey Store in the Southern Hemisphere – at Sydney’s The Galeries shopping centre. New Balance recorded worldwide sales of US$5.3 The post New Balance opens its first ‘Grey Store’ in Asia Pacific appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

Balance 264
article thumbnail

Forte Forte's Tuscan boutique features subtle nautical details

Dezeen

Clothes rails (top image) and wooden fins (above) have been suspended from the shop's walls. We also had an opportunity to work on unprecedented balances and harmonious contrasts. Giada Forte founded Forte Forte alongside her brother Paolo Forte in 2002, launching the business from their childhood home in Italy's Veneto region.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Bunnings MD Mike Schneider: “I have the best retail job in the country”

Inside Retail

I think it might’ve been 2001 and or even maybe 2002, but I was in Bourke street in David Jones which is a business owner, which is a business that’s dear to your heart, Paul! The danger when you work from home is that ‘working from home’ becomes ‘living at work’, and you gotta be really careful to sort of strike that balance.

article thumbnail

Forte Forte's first US store features golden changing rooms and balancing stones

Dezeen

Light fixtures inspired by James Turrell artworks, balancing stones, and a circular golden changing room feature in the interiors of fashion brand Forte Forte 's Los Angeles boutique. Vattilana called the design "an ineffable balance of the geometric and the organic". The store features a sage green enamelled metal facade.

Balance 74
article thumbnail

The fall of Debenhams and Arcadia was inevitable: both shackled by earlier financial engineering.

Nelson Blackley

There have been thousands of words written about some of the background to these recent retail problems and failures and many of the challenges (online shopping, too many stores etc.) They raised £1.1bn of debt to pay for Debenhams and then quickly shifted it onto the balance sheet. have been discussed at length before.