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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Our site visits have increased 25 per cent,” Evans said.

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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.

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Nahanco

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Curators at major costume museums agree that clothes hangers were probably not made until after 1850. Tailors and clothing merchants were quick to see that these specialty hangers could be used to advertise their businesses. Clothes were worn daily, even slept in. So, who really Invented the clothes hanger and when? This is an T.

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