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 …
and wander features a wide range of unisex items available in various colors. Each item has its own unique cutting and design, which you only notice when you hold it in your hands, giving you the pleasure of discovering something new each time. A grid system suspended from the ceiling was used to create a …
The multi-storey flagship store on the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City has closed for an extensive multi-year revamp. In fact, ‘rebuild’ would be more appropriate, since the old building will be demolished, making way for an entirely new structure that’s expected to tremendously exceed the current 91,060 sq.ft. (8,460 …
The highly anticipated One by One Flagship Showroom has opened in the heart of Kyiv, offering a refreshing take on contemporary retail design. Created by the renowned architecture and interior design studio Between the Walls, the showroom blends minimalism with playful, interactive elements to deliver a unique shopping experience.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Hyundai Department Store Group opened its largest store in Seoul. The Hyundai Seoul is part of a mixed-use complex combining business, shopping, and leisure in a single destination. The client’s intent was to shape history by redefining the future of retail. The vision was to merge grand architecture, …
Following a pop-up store at Hankyu Men’s department store in Tokyo, Canadian outdoor apparel brand Arc’teryx Veilance has inaugurated a permanent shop-in-shop, its very first in the Land of the Rising Sun, on the premises. The interior design, created by the brand’s in-house design team in Vancouver, is inspired by Tokyo‘s sprawling urban landscape, featuring …
