Jonathan Anderson has wowed Dior fans across the planet with his first collections, and that’s a huge vote of confidence for the iconic fashion house, and it’s one which also translates in boosting its retail presence whenever and wherever possible, especially in its most important markets. Needless to say, Japan is one of them. Here, …
Renovation of a timber warehouse in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Tokyo, into a hair salon. The client, Hiroyuki Nagae, approached us with the idea of creating a place that could offer a unique experience beyond the conventional format of a hair salon. In addition to everyday salon work, the space was intended to accommodate seminars for fellow hairdressers, …
Based in Berlin, FORMEL+SKIN was founded in 2019 by trained dermatologist Sarah Bechstein, Florian Semler and Anton Kononov. As a medically grounded skincare brand, the company initially started operations online, standing out in the crowded and highly competitive beauty landscape with a diagnostic approach—customers complete a medical questionnaire, upload images of their skin, and receive …
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Messina Glenelg approaches the gelato shop as a social interior – one shaped by nostalgia, collective memory and the rituals of summer. Rather than resolving the brief as a conventional hospitality fit-out, the project uses boldness as an architectural strategy, translating the simple pleasure of gelato into a spatial experience that is public, generous and …
After exiting as the womenswear creative director at Calvin Klein in 2016, Francisco Costa took some time off and returned to his native Brazil. Here, the designer explored the sprawling Amazon rainforest for the very first time, becoming acquainted with indigenous people, their culture, and last but not least, a local substance called Breu. The …
Almost a decade after first opening on the lower level of 8500 Sunset Boulevard in the West Hollywood area, KITH has returned with a big splash, now also occupying the ground floor of the former premises of the iconic Fred Segal store. Mind you, this is not only the retailer’s third store in Los Angeles, …
Following a number of pop-up stores in previous years, BEAMS has stepped up its presence in Singapore with long-term ephemeral store. The retail space occupies a spacious ground floor unit at New Bahru, a redeveloped, former girl’s school campus with several buildings in the downtown River Valley neighbourhood, and is an initiative by local hospitality …
SONO is an interior design project for a hair salon located in a quiet area of Ho Chi Minh City. The name “SONO” means garden in Japanese, aligning with the design approach of evoking exterior space through minimal elements.
Pieter Mulier‘s five-year tenure as ALAÏA‘s creative director has not only put the brand in the global limelight, but also boosted demand, and consequently, a rapid expansion of its retail network. Hot on the heels of a store opening in Beijing, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, ALAÏA has set its sight on …
Following the opening of a standalone store in London and Seoul earlier this year, Japanese sportswear brand Goldwin continues its global retail expansion overseas, inaugurating a new retail space in yet another leading shopping destination—New York City. The company, headquartered in Tokyo, secured a lofty, 169 sqm. (1,815 sq.ft.) unit on the ground floor of …
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