Both Viva La Vika, a jewellery brand, and womenswear brand CHOUX are run by Ukrainian-born entrepreneur Viktoria Moldavskaya. The two brands are known for their striking design-led boutiques which have upped their branding, and consequently, boosted their respective profiles. Since a few months, a combined retail space has opened its doors in the leafy Petrogradskiy …
In sync with Saudi Arabia‘s accelerated modernisation in recent years, an increasing number of foreign brands have opened up shop in the country’s major cities, and A.P.C. is one of the latest to arrive. In collaboration with local retail group Beside, the Paris-based brand has opened a standalone store in Riyadh, its very first in …
It isn’t only in Italy where Fare la bella figura is an innate skill, the Japanese know a thing or two about keeping up appearances. Unsurprisingly, top-notch Italian brands have always resonated well in the Land of the Rising Sun, and Brioni is no exception. The renowned Rome-based tailoring brand has recently relocated its store …
PARIGOT, a fashion boutique that has primarily focused on women’s wear in the Tokyo metropolitan area, has opened its first men’s wear store in Tokyo called Le GRAND CLOSET de PARIGOT / MAN, with items from over 100 different Japanese and international brands. The concept of the interior design is “a private closet of an …
Founded by Agnieszką Balbierz, Bohèmi Soul is a Polish sustainable womenswear brand which has made waves in the local fashion scene. Banking on its growing populairy, the brand has opened branded retail spaces, and the very latest to open is a flagship store in Warsaw‘s historic Śródmieście district. The Bohèmi Soul retail space occupies a …
Ukrainian-born entrepreneur Viktoria Moldavskaya knows a thing or two about fashion, managing both a jewellery brand – whose new boutique we’ve featured in a previous post – and a womenswear brand called Choux. For the latter venture, founded only three years ago, the entrepreneur once again collaborated with local architect Elena Lokastova for a branded …
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 …
