The meteoric rise of India as an economic powerhouse this past decade comes with an increasingly sophisticated and expanding consumer market and talent pool, and it’s a combo which is slowly changing the country’s leading cities on many levels, including retail and shopping. After graduating from NIFT in Delhi and Milan‘s Istituto Marangoni, Indian designer …
Confronted with an irregular original site, SHISUO returned to the fundamental element of fashion display: the hanging rail. A “single continuous rail” is allowed to morph in response to the existing walls, columns, and rainwater pipes. It traces the walls, bends to evade columns, and rises to allow passage, absorbing the chaotic nature of the …
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Founded in 2017 by São Paulo-based designer Marina Dalgalarrondo, womenswear brand ÃO has carved a name for itself in Brazil‘s fast-evolving fashion landscape with quirky silhouettes that emphasise creativity and redefine female shapes by blurring the lines between fashion and visual arts. Taking its operations to a new level, ÃO has recently inaugurated a new …
Following the inauguration in 2020 of the Maison MIHARA YASUHIRO flagship store at Omotesando Hills shopping centre in Tokyo, and the magnificent URA concept store three years later, iconic Japanese fashion designer Yasuhiro Mihara recently made his biggest retail statement to date in the buzzing Harajuku shopping area—Maison MIHARA YASUHIRO Jingumae Building. Mind you, URA …
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High-end fashion and a sizeable HNWI demographic are inextricably linked, and Hong Kong has long been one of those few places on the planet where a plethora of upscale retail has catered to voracious community with deep pockets. The city took a few damaging blows in the political arena these past few years, losing much …
Since its inception in 1975, BESTSELLER has fully outgrown its rural Danish roots, morphing into a multi-brand fashion company with a large portfolio of affordable fashion brands that serve a young demographic in all corners of the globe. For almost each of these brands dedicated retail spaces have sprung up, dominating many a high street, …
Cult golfwear brand Malbon first opened a store in Los Angeles little over two years ago, and now, it has upped the ante with a second outpost, also on Melrose Place. Situated across the street, the store occupies a low-rise 1954 structure and measures 167 sqm. (1,800 sq.ft.). The interior design sees a renewed collaboration …
The orthogonal timber frame has long been the primary structural prototype for nearly all functional building types in the East—from halls and temples to dwellings. Shanxi, as one of the most important regions for the preservation of ancient Chinese timber architecture, retains many precious examples such as Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple. These surviving entities …
The Bottega Veneta store at JK Iguatemi shopping centre in São Paulo, one of two in this sprawling megalopolis, first opened its doors in 2012. With a newly appointed creative director, British-born Louise Trotter, the luxury brand has seen an accelerated roll-out of a new retail aesthetic across the planet. Here, at one of the …
Founded only in 2022 by entrepreneurs Alain Duruy, Oscar Fassenot and Joachim Piry, online retailer suuupply quickly established a solid client base for their contemporary urban menswear offerings. And now, the trio have upped the ante, opening a standalone store, suuupply‘s very first, in what’s generally seen as one of the most fashionable shopping grounds …
