Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Australian luxury reseller Blue Spinach has joined David Jones’ Mindfully Made edit, giving pre-owned designer pieces a second life. The online designer resale at David Jones features more than 30 luxury accessories items from brands including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada, Hermes, Gucci, Celine, Balenciaga, Valentino and Fendi.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 1, 2021

International fashion outlet developer, FASHION HOUSE Group has officially opened its doors to a €25M new outlet centre in the east of Bucharest, the Group’s second outlet centre in Romania’s capital. Romania was one of the few EU countries to see a GDP rise in the first quarter of 2020. The country’s GDP increased by 0.3

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Hear the phrase ‘fashion waste’ and most people immediately associate it with the fast-fashion industry producing products with short lifespans, ultimately destined for landfills. Meanwhile, sustainable fashion business models like resale, rental and repair only unravel the post-consumer garment waste problems.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2022

During Afterpay Australian Fashion Week this year, prominent fashion designer Daniel Avakian’s Resort 2023 runway show was a stroke of genius. The stunning couture collection entwined with cult fiction sent a strong message to the industry: The future of fashion is physical and digital.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

Suiting was once reserved for men’s formal attire and workwear but now the fashion industry is following consumer trends and doubling down on business casual. Fashion trends are a tell for the broader climate and more often than not mirror societal, economic and political changes.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

The new 6000-square-foot store not only underscores the denim brand’s commitment to the Indian market but also showcases its innovative NextGen Indigo store concept, designed to enhance the consumer shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2021

Tributes have been flowing in from around the world since Australian fashion icon Carla Zampatti passed away in Sydney on Saturday 3 April at the age of 78. Customers, past employees and leaders across various sectors, from fashion and politics to sports and media, have shared their memories of the acclaimed designer.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2023

Victoria’s Secret has opened its first Queensland store at the Pacific Fair shopping centre on the Gold Coast. The new store, which joins more than 1350 Victoria’s Secret locations worldwide, offers beauty products including modern, fashion-inspired collections, fine fragrances, body care and loungewear.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2023

Victoria’s Secret has opened its first Queensland store at the Pacific Fair shopping centre on the Gold Coast. The new store, which joins more than 1350 Victoria’s Secret locations worldwide, offers beauty products including modern, fashion-inspired collections, fine fragrances, body care and loungewear.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

While household-name department stores are downsizing and closing their doors, multi-brand retail boutiques are succeeding by focusing on personalised shopping experiences. Of course, e-commerce has a crucial part to any brand, but in-store retail shopping gives you a sensory experience that online can’t.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opened a pop-up shop at 20 Savile Row on Thursday 12 October. Marcel brings his unique style to the tailoring district, further expanding the bespoke offering on The Row. Now the brand is opening its second location at the home of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

We’re on our way to a new normal in fashion. However, it took a destructive global health crisis to shake the truths out of fashion for all to see. Indeed fashion adapted, however, it also emerged battered. Shopping habits also shifted as we were forced to shop online, having no other options available during lockdown periods.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2021

Australia’s Fashion Capital, also known as Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. In that time, the way people shop has changed dramatically. Here, we ask Whitehead about the role of the shopping centre in the age of e-commerce and what retail trends he’s got his eye on.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Pollen Estate has announced that ‘ Pop-Up at the Cop Shop ’, the Crisis at Christmas Pop Up, will return to Savile Row this December 5th-14th, 2022. The post ‘Pop-Up at the Cop Shop’ returns to Savile Row in support of Crisis at Christmas appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Where contemporary meets traditional, Victoria Leeds is leading the way in new shopping trends with a progressive approach to retail and its new announcements; home-grown, UK independents meet in-demand fashion and lifestyle brands, as well as avantgarde concept stores.

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As the year-end shopping season kicks off, Zalora , one of Asia’s leading online fashion retailers, and part of Global Fashion Group (GFG), is ramping up its marketing to capture consumers’ attention. As more customers added these items to their shopping carts, their prices dropped daily.

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Dezeen

MAY 8, 2024

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has completed two retail spaces for Shanghai fabric and fashion company Jisifang, using wood and concrete to evoke "a more primitive state of being". One was designed for Jisifang Boutique and the other for its sister brand Woven Moonlight, also owned by Jisifang. The photography is by Pedro Pegenaute.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Southeast Asia’s largest fashion and lifestyle e-commerce player Zalora has just celebrated its 10th year anniversary this year. From overcoming initial barriers to buying fashion online through easier payment modes with operational excellence, it has made the website a force to be reckoned with in the region.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2024

Internationally, US global fashion powerhouse Kate Spade New York paid homage to the humble suit in its latest Spring 2024 global campaign, while soft suiting in neutral tones was in the spotlight at Kmart Australia’s Family Runway as part of last week’s PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Our pattern-maker is absolutely incredible.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2024

Bringing its fashion lens to the Cancer Council’s research, The Iconic aims to motivate consumers to make more informed and healthier styling choices. The Iconic remains Australia’s leading fashion and lifestyle platform with 25 million monthly visitors, an estimated 2000 app downloads every day and over 1.7 million followers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

A key one, he said, is personalisation, as the demand for a tailored and customised shopping experience becomes higher over time. This, he said, would reduce waste, improve the supply chain, and design one-off products for customers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Pharrell Williams took to Hong Kong for his second Louis Vuitton runway outing, showcasing the label’s latest menswear designs on a runway overlooking the city’s harbour at night.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For more than 10 years, Eloise Monaghan and Florian Semanaz had a successful creative partnership at Honey Birdette, designing the products and experiential retail stores that helped turn the luxury lingerie label into a powerhouse brand, which Playboy bought for $443 million in 2021. We’re not doing shampoos, conditioners, and brushes.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

IR: You joined YNAP from fashion resale site Vestiaire Collective in December 2021, so you probably understand the challenges of reducing the environmental impact of the fashion industry better than most. Can you share what YNAP is doing in the sustainability space? How do you plan to leverage them?

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Retail Focus

JUNE 16, 2023

This is to tailor a brand story that resonates with them. Brands could think about seven main points that help in crafting pop-up stores’ brand narratives : Aligning the brand with a store design: Ensuring that the popup store design aligns with the brand’s aesthetics and personality.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2021

After almost two years of offering essential services to the community since Covid-19 hit, shopping centres are ready to inject fun into the retail experience. Inside Retail : Since Covid, how do you think shopping centres are evolving in this new environment? What does that look like for shopping centres?

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Retail Focus

JULY 30, 2021

The Levi’s® store in Bromley is the first in a line of branches to have a shift in design and strategy, in collaboration with Lucky Fox , as the brand hits a new direction. Lucky Fox designed table fit navigation signage blocks with integrated NFC tags, which interact with mobile devices.

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MARCH 6, 2024

In the digital age, luxury retail is facing unprecedented challenges, including the proliferation of counterfeit goods and the increasing shift to online shopping. In addition, blockchain facilitates comprehensive product lifecycle management, giving brands the power to incorporate sustainable practices from design to disposal.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The rise of the shopping mall and cookie-cutter chain stores in the 90s and 2000s played a part in disengaging us from our local communities. As many of us work from home some of the time, our high streets and neighbourhood shops matter again. Simply put, we’ve lost our town centres, our meeting points, our sense of community.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The brainchild of LSKD’s head of design Dylan Osborne, the concept came to life when the brand purchased the 1970s double-decker bus that once served as ‘The Love Bus’ in Byron Bay. Designed in collaboration with renowned Australian designers ACRD, the 227sqm flagship uses artisan and bespoke details throughout.

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AUGUST 8, 2021

We spoke with Levi’s chief marketing officer Karen Riley-Grant about the latest denim trends, rise of genderless fashion and growing demand for secondhand fashion. Do you think skinny jeans are falling out of fashion, and if so, why? IR: What insights can you share about designing and marketing genderless fashion?

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AUGUST 22, 2023

It recently opened its most expansive store in Southeast Asia in SM North Edsa in Manila, where customers can tailor Levi’s items to mirror their unique style and personality. Experiential retail The opening of the store, which features Levi’s NextGen design concept, signifies a shift towards an experiential retail model.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

British fashion label Paul Smith 's iconic pink store in Los Angeles has received an interior makeover from Standard Architecture. Standard Architecture collaborated with the Paul Smith design team to reimagine the 4,740-square-foot (440 square metres) store on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

According to IBISWorld data, fashion jewellery spending in Australia is expected to rise 3 per cent between 2023 and 2028, to $864 million annually. Jewellery brands that once sold purely to a female audience are now launching male-focused lines, and kicking off a bigger focus on unisex design. And with more demand comes more supply.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 10, 2023

On the other side of the room, an open shoebox reveals a pair of super limited edition Levi’s x Crocs All-Terrain Clogs made with deadstock denim upcycled by Japanese designer Proleta Re Art. I think how stores are coming to life, it just feels like an evolved shopping experience.” It is one of just 60 pairs created worldwide.

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JUNE 22, 2023

Building further on the growing focus and demand for transformative shapewear and tailored lingerie seen in recent years, the grand new halls provide products and services for every occasion and requirement; from bra fittings and made to measure to personalisation and bespoke alterations. The almost 16,000 sq.

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