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HOKA® announces new London flagship store in Covent Garden

Retail Focus

Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. The stores interior also features interactive displays that tap into the brand’s ethos of joyful movement and commitment to movement and motion for all.

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TRADING MUSEUM Comme des Garçons

Retail Design Blog

First opened in 2009 on the premises of the futuristic GYRE building in Tokyo, featuring a setting anchored by eight.

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How Lekker Bikes’ founder transitioned from CEO to a more strategic role

Inside Retail

Meindert Wolfraad launched Lekker Bikes in 2009 while living in Australia as a backpacker, and over the years, he grew the brand into a successful global cycling business. Meindert Wolfraad: I started Lekker Bikes back in 2009, in Sydney. In 2018, he stepped down as CEO to take on a more strategic role.

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A shift in attitude: How Lekker Bikes is normalising e-bikes in Australia

Inside Retail

Back in 2009, industrial designer Meindert Wolfraad identified a gap in the market for practical, comfortable and stylish commuter bikes that would enable Sydney-siders to get around, similar to what he saw growing up in the Netherlands. Meindert Wolfraad: Lekker Bikes started back in 2009, in Sydney.

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Studio Anne Holtrop creates gypsum walls that look like fabric for Maison Margiela store

Dezeen

Located at 22 Bruton Street, the boutique is laid out across 190-square-metres and displays Maison Margiela's Co-Ed collections , with men's and women's ready-to-wear alongside accessories such as shoes, jewellery and eyewear. Gypsum partition walls separate the retail space.

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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges' Paris store

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Only clothing displays provide a colourful contrast. Bernard Dubois set up his eponymous firm in 2014 after graduating as an architect from La Cambre in Brussels in 2009. The store is the larger of two Courrèges outposts in Paris. The other store in the Marais neighbourhood was also designed by Dubois.

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In Memoriam: Kent D. Hensley 1960 – 2022

Retail Design Institute

Project developers tapped Hensley to revive the store’s legendary window displays. Hensley joined the Institute in 2009 as a Professional member. One of his most recent projects was to bring back holiday windows to the former Dayton’s Department Store, now known as the Dayton’s Project, in November 2021.