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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Virgil Abloh, artistic director at LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White, died on the weekend. In 2013, he founded Off White, and he became the men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton in 2018. Hillberg joined SurfStitch as merchandise manager in 2014, before becoming general manager in 2015 and managing director in 2018.

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Episode 45: Montaha Hidefi

VMS

He brings together his background as an architect, artist, educator, author, podcast host and builder to the making of meaningful and empathically-focused, community-centric customer connections at brand experience places around the globe. He has held teaching positions at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), in Singapore.

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Episode 47: Justin Bolognino

VMS

JB also helped to develop and launch of Brooklyn Bowl (2009), serving as Creative and Media Director, as well as Arcadia Earth (2019) in NYC, the first artist-driven immersive experience dedicated to sustainability, where he also designed two of the installations. in Singapore.

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Louis Vuitton’s brand history in heritage window displays

Design Retail Space

Grandson of the company founder, Gaston was a businessman and an artist. Gaston’s Louis Vuitton’s artistic window display sketches. Vuitton as the company CEO understood the importance of shopfront design and treat it with an artistic vision in mind. Let’s get back to the twenties of the 20th century.

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Episode 48: Richard Lems

VMS

Perimeter wall units were illuminated with colorful frames, each identifying a specific category of merchandise. the Department of Architecture & Interior Design of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (L.I.M.) It looked homey. Warm and cozy. And…it smelled great! in Singapore.

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Episode 44: Gabriele Chiave

VMS

He brings together his background as an architect, artist, educator, author, podcast host and builder to the making of meaningful and empathically-focused, community-centric customer connections at brand experience places around the globe. He has held teaching positions at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), in Singapore.

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5 Best Experiential Retail Examples

Greater Group

In cooperation with greater group, the pop up shop was officially launched in New York in June 2014. Agent Training, civilians enter the experience store where a range of limited edition uniforms and other merchandise items are on sale to prepare them for returning to the ‘real world’. Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N.