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A-COLD-WALL* Lotte Department Store, Jamsil, Seoul set to launch

Retail Focus

Following the opening of a bold and distinctly industrial space inside the world-renowned Hyundai COEX, the brand unveils yet another site in the Korean capital, this time located in the famed Lotte Department Store, Jamsil.

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Japanese department store Takashimaya looks to the future

Inside Retail

Living in a building of historic importance gives one of the world’s pre-eminent luxury department store companies that extra little bit of cache — the trick now is to find ways of being a retailer of future importance, a stiff hurdle upon which so many department store companies are stumbling. Footfall was up 6.4%

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How can department stores pivot ahead of a spending decline?

Inside Retail

The biggest swing occurred in department store spending, which saw a 14.3 Especially in department stores, where the consumer appetite to spend appears to have fallen so dramatically between November and December? When it comes to the big department stores, there needs to be a differentiation.

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Tutu Du Monde opens first flagship, in Sydney

Inside Retail

Children’s couture brand Tutu Du Monde has opened its first flagship location, in Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction. The store offers the brand’s celebrated collections including tutus, dresses, resortwear, and accessories crafted for young fashion enthusiasts. ­­The

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Department Store Offers Shoppers a Calming, Biophilic Space

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Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? The wrong clothes and accessories at the wrong time of year could be the nail in the coffin to an already bad year.

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Longchamp redefines its retail footprint with très chic Melbourne apartment

Inside Retail

The brand has grown to have a presence in 80 countries through a distribution network encompassing 1200 points of sale across stand-alone stores, franchises, department stores, multi-brand leather goods stores, travel retail and e-commerce websites.

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Onetime airline Pan Am reimagined in South Korea as a lifestyle brand

Inside Retail

South Korean fashion retailer, SJ Group, has brought the famous American airline brand Pan Am into the country as a lifestyle brand, opening its first store inside the Shinsegae Starfield Coex Mall. SJ currently has a portfolio of five brands, including Kangol, Helen Kaminski, LCDC and Le Conte Des Contes.

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