Australian cycling wear brand MAAP continues its global retail expansion and has now planted a flag in leafy Da’an area of Taipei. The so-called MAAP LaB Taipei, situated just off bustling Dunhua Bei Lu, occupies a unit on the ground floor of a multi-storey red brick residential building, and rubs shoulders with retail spaces of …
It’s Paris Men’s Fashion Week, and the French capital is abuzz with hotly anticipated fashion frenzy, hosting catwalk shows, trade shows, after parties, and even more after parties. However, with the global fashion crowd present in full force, leading brands also seize the moment for other occasions. Stone Island has timely opened its relocated Paris …
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has inaugurated a new boutique in another one of China‘s first-tier cities—Guangzhou. Situated at K11 Guangzhou, one of the city’s leading shopping centres, the retail space features an interior design by Tokyo-based architecture practice OSO. The material palette is inspired by traditional …
Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural complex, with the famous Ganxi Mansion nearby. The entire area features a uniform ancient style, which brings several challenges to the store’s renovation. Situated on the second floor, the space is narrow, and the key design challenge was to integrate with …
Since Luke and Lucie Meier took over the creative reigns at Jil Sander in 2017, the Milan-based fashion house has seen a style renaissance which has not only garnered a new global fanbase, but also spawned additional standalone stores. One of the most prominent store openings of late is in Tokyo‘s downtown district of Ginza, …
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Since its inception in 2010 by friends Inwook Park, Nadan Cho, and Jonkyu Choi, fashion brand thisisneverthat has come a long, long way, expanding its business on home turf, but also increasingly overseas. The company has cleverly paired the growth with design-led standalone stores of which many can be found across Seoul – mind you, …
The Story Behind Khakis Seongsu Flagship Store Design – The design of the Khakis Seongsu flagship store marks the reunion of Khakis and design studio COM after four years. From the beginning of the project, COM established a set of guiding principles they called “NEW Khakis.” These principles included: “Never pursue novelty for the sake …
AMIRI continues its global retail expansion with a menswear shop-in-shop at Matsuzakaya, one of Nagoya‘s leading department stores. Situated on the third floor, rubbing shoulders with the retail spaces of Givenchy, Rick Owens, Alexandre de Paris, Astier de Villatte and Alexander Wang, the store features an interior design by creative director Mike Amiri himself, and …
Fit into a narrow storefront once occupied by a laundromat on the edge of Chinatown, the Sandy Liang Store draws from its local history and the designer’s deep ties to the surrounding community. She grew up there, her father has run a restaurant in the neighborhood since the 1970’s, and her grandmother lives down the …
Since Jarrad Smith and Ollie Cousins founded MAAP a decade ago, the tech performance wear brand – geared specifically towards cyclists – has gone leaps and bounds, spawning retail outposts at home base Melbourne and far beyond along the way. The latest so-called MAAP LaB has recently opened its doors in Hong Kong, on the …
