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Form and function: How Cargo Crew is bringing style to workwear

Inside Retail

We have a full range of stock in the showroom and you can completely immerse yourself in curating the right uniform range for your business. From a practical perspective, creating a uniform that is built for work really begins with fabric development.

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

Inside Retail

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.

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Gentle Monster opens HAUS SHANGHAI

Retail Focus

In addition, various forms of collaged media art and aesthetic furniture provide a distinct F&B experience. Defying the traditional layout of commercial space that prioritizes efficiency and function, Gentle Monster exemplifies its new perspective on Future Retail. Dessert of your dreams.”.

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In Common With opens Quarters showroom and hospitality venue in Tribeca

Dezeen

"Inspired by Tribeca's rich artistic history – and by the participatory spirit of 1960s ad hoc art spaces – Quarters shifts between the expected and the altogether disarming, a curated space and one that's improvisational and alive."

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Opinion: Don’t make your returns problem an experience problem

Inside Retail

Retailers confronted with a substantial number of online returns need to approach the problem not from a cost and logistics perspective, but from the vantage point of an end-to-end customer experience. Following this experience, only one-third are likely to return the product as they are an online purchase. Build trust and confidence.

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First look: V&A’s 1900-Now gallery brings “the history of design to life”

Design Week

“We have sought to bring the history of design to life,” V&A senior curator of design and digital Corinna Gardner says of the museum’s latest gallery, 1900-Now. According to the museum’s curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture Johanna Agerman Ross, these themes were conceived in autumn 2018.

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Perfect Posts of Architecture

Onyx

0_prologue_ In the Introduction to The Wexner Center for the Art's 2001 show, 'Perfect Acts of Architecture' curator, Jeff Kipnis, argued that the show's architectural drawings were not 'perfect' in some idealized manner. As drawings, they weren't deficient forms of architecture. Instagram has become a form of geology for me.