Thinking MU is a sustainable fashion brand founded in 2008 by Barcelona-based entrepreneurs Pepe Barguñó and Miquel Castells. Interestingly, the brand opened its first store only three years ago in the Catalan capital, and ever since, the retail network has gradually expanded in its home market. The latest Thinking MU store, its third, has recently …
Following last Summer’s high-profile store opening in Tokyo‘s plush shopping district of Ginza, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, Onitsuka Tiger has inaugurated a retail space on Omotesando dori, arguably the city’s most prestigious shopping artery. The store occupies four floors of a building erected in 1975 which has been fully revamped by …
After opening up shop in Los Angeles in 2020, things were somewhat quiet on the retail front for Dries Van Noten. Well, that was yesterday. This Spring season, it’s full throttle for the Antwerp-based fashion house, as a new outpost has opened its doors Brussels a little while ago, and now, the newest retail space …
Based in New York City, high-end fashion brand rag & bone first opened an outpost on the other side of the Big Pond little over a decade ago in London. Expansion in Europe has long been put on the back burner – well, at one point there was a standalone boutique in downtown Oslo, but …
Founded by Rawin Kanathananon, Truffle Originals is a Thai apparel brand that blends urban outdoor fashion with Japanese-inspired designs and sewing techniques. The Bangkok-based brand recently aligned its existing retail space in the city’s Watthana district with its merchandise by way of a major revamp executed by local architecture practice Studio Nomatter. Situated on the …
Indeed, KITH is betting big on the Land of the Rising Sun. Following the arrival of a flagship store in Tokyo almost five years ago, the first overseas outpost of the New York City-based brand, a large flagship store officially opens its doors today in Osaka. KITH has secured a ground floor unit encased in …
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 …
