Curate, Department Stores and Form

Multi-dimensional, story-telling design for South Korea’s largest, luxury department store

Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2022

Lotte enlisted London luxury retail designers Shed , known for a distinctly contemporary and progressive international design style, to reimagine a ‘different kind’ of department store, Lotte’s first major project in 7 years. Dedicated to women’s contemporary fashion and hosting local, premium brands curated for the Lotte customer.

Department Stores

Department Stores Design Reimagine Texture

Department Stores – what does the future hold?

Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Changing culture of shopping.

Department Stores

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Inside Shinsegae: The Korean department store with a golden boot

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

Department Stores

Department Stores Expansion Fashion Planning

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Showfields and the bankruptcy of the ‘most interesting store in the world’

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

US-based retailer Showfields, the self-described “most interesting store in the world”, filed for bankruptcy this month and will be restructuring through a form of Chapter 11 bankruptcy created during Covid to help small businesses continue operations, reorganise, and maintain control of finances without creditors taking over.

Department Stores

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How Canningvale plans to take Robinsons Singapore back to its roots

Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

Fast-growing Australian online retailer Canningvale plans to relaunch the iconic Singaporean department store Robinsons as an online-only business this month after acquiring the company’s digital assets for an undisclosed sum. Some of the brands have a history with Robinsons, while others are new to the department store. .

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Lane Crawford CEO Jennifer Woo talks how to truly cater to customers

Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2023

Spontaneous 11pm store openings for VIP customers, curating the customer journey and the growing middle-class. Luxury department store Lane Crawford was launched in 1850, and has stores across Hong Kong and mainland China. Our role as a curator is more important going forward. We’re still working on that.

Curate

Curate Fashion Department Stores Merchandising

Untapped potential: David Jones’ CMO talks retail media move

Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2023

Compared to more traditional forms of advertising, retail media is touted as a more targeted, less wasteful form of customer acquisition: if someone is already shopping on a retailer’s website, they’re likely looking to buy, or to learn more about products that they’re considering purchasing.

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Matthew Yokobosky Announced as the Recipient of the 2022 Markopoulos Award in a Milestone Year

VMS

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Ralph Pucci showroom, curated with exquisite luxury furniture, fine art and cutting-edge designs, was the venue for the event. It was somehow appropriate that the celebration at the Pucci showroom that night was in the shadows of the early department stores that dramatically altered the course of retail.

Curate

Curate Department Stores Visual Merchandising Fashion

TikTok and ‘deal’ mentality: What’s driving demand for advent calendars

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Just last year, luxury department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue sold six different types of advent calendars; in 2023, that number tripled. With Black Friday behind us and holidays like Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year’s just around the corner, retail’s peak period is in full swing. What are the risks? What are the risks?

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Social Media Gifts Curate Department Stores

How retailers are racing to meet the needs of older online shoppers

Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

“We had already started the process of pivoting our traditional clothing brand websites towards true online department stores before Covid 19 hit, but we accelerated along with our customers,” Scott Evans, the CEO of Mosaic Brands, told Inside Retail.

Department Stores

Department Stores Gifts Shopping Consumer

Matthew Yokobosky Wins 2022 Markopoulos Award in a Milestone Year

VMS

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Ralph Pucci showroom, curated with exquisite luxury furniture, fine art and cutting-edge designs, was the venue for the event. It was somehow appropriate that the celebration at the Pucci showroom that night was in the shadows of the early department stores that dramatically altered the course of retail.

Curate

Curate Department Stores Visual Merchandising Fashion

What Nordstrom’s Paul Smith pop-up says about the future of this retail trend

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Just this week, American department store chain Nordstrom announced a unique collaboration with the British fashion brand Paul Smith. The shop is set to showcase Paul Smith’s spring collection, titled “What is a suit”, which tackles menswear staples in a variety of forms, from classic tailoring to military uniforms.

Department Stores

Department Stores Fashion Shopping Engagement

The History of the Clothes Hanger and a Collection by NAHANCO

Nahanco

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Curators at major costume museums agree that clothes hangers were probably not made until after 1850. In doing my research on the Eaton Clothes Hanger, I found this very interesting piece on North America’s independent department stores called The Department Store Museum, [link]. Wooden Suit Hanger (1940’s-50’s).

Department Stores

Department Stores Fashion Display Advertising

Art, community and creativity: Three shopping centres setting new standards

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. Platform, Los Angeles: Where culture, community and creativity meet Located in a trendy neighbourhood of Culver City, California, Platform is a curated showcase of local indie brands, pop-ups, sleek bars and Michelin-star restaurants. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Supermarket giant, tick.

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Art Shopping Architecture Outdoor

EBBA Architects designs sculptural pop-up shop for Rotaro at Liberty

Dezeen

JUNE 27, 2023

London-based studio EBBA Architects has channelled the environmental ethos of fashion rental platform Rotaro for its pop-up boutique at department store Liberty. Circularity is key to their ethos and we wanted to connect to this, both in the use of material and form."

Shopping

Shopping Design Form Texture

The Existential Question Facing Every Retailer Today

Retail Prophet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And, in the process they formed a global tribe of Prime Members almost 200 million deep. UK department store Selfridges creates radical entertainment value through an intense focus on experience. Radical Entertainment Value. Retailers can also create customer value with entertainment.

Consumer

Consumer Marketing Department Stores Other

VMSD’s 2021 Designer Dozen: Future Proofing

VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

How do you see the role of physical stores changing in the future? The past 10 years have been hard on the retail industry, especially on department stores. A top retail designer in the firm’s Southeast region, Lainie has experience designing a variety of spaces, from boutiques to department stores.

Design

Design Visual Merchandising Architecture Interior Design

The Existential Question Facing Every Retailer Today

Retail Prophet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And, in the process they formed a global tribe of Prime Members almost 200 million deep. UK department store Selfridges creates radical entertainment value through an intense focus on experience. Radical Entertainment Value. Retailers can also create customer value with entertainment.

Consumer

Consumer Department Stores Other Engagement

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Multi-dimensional, story-telling design for South Korea’s largest, luxury department store

Department Stores – what does the future hold?

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Inside Shinsegae: The Korean department store with a golden boot

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Showfields and the bankruptcy of the ‘most interesting store in the world’

How Canningvale plans to take Robinsons Singapore back to its roots

Lane Crawford CEO Jennifer Woo talks how to truly cater to customers

Untapped potential: David Jones’ CMO talks retail media move

Matthew Yokobosky Announced as the Recipient of the 2022 Markopoulos Award in a Milestone Year

TikTok and ‘deal’ mentality: What’s driving demand for advent calendars

How retailers are racing to meet the needs of older online shoppers

Matthew Yokobosky Wins 2022 Markopoulos Award in a Milestone Year

What Nordstrom’s Paul Smith pop-up says about the future of this retail trend

The History of the Clothes Hanger and a Collection by NAHANCO

Art, community and creativity: Three shopping centres setting new standards

EBBA Architects designs sculptural pop-up shop for Rotaro at Liberty

The Existential Question Facing Every Retailer Today

VMSD’s 2021 Designer Dozen: Future Proofing

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