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HOKA® announces new London flagship store in Covent Garden

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The community-fuelled space has opened in London’s Covent Garden, home to world-class fashion, beauty, and lifestyle stores. Performance footwear and apparel brand, HOKA® launched in 2009 and has been disrupting the running industry ever since. The 1750 sq.

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A shift in attitude: How Lekker Bikes is normalising e-bikes in Australia

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Back in 2009, industrial designer Meindert Wolfraad identified a gap in the market for practical, comfortable and stylish commuter bikes that would enable Sydney-siders to get around, similar to what he saw growing up in the Netherlands. Meindert Wolfraad: Lekker Bikes started back in 2009, in Sydney. Watch this space in 2024!

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How Lekker Bikes’ founder transitioned from CEO to a more strategic role

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Meindert Wolfraad launched Lekker Bikes in 2009 while living in Australia as a backpacker, and over the years, he grew the brand into a successful global cycling business. Meindert Wolfraad: I started Lekker Bikes back in 2009, in Sydney. Exercise gives me the mental space and endorphin-hit to get that creativity flowing.

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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges' Paris store

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The result is a monochrome space with fabric-lined walls and ceilings, thick carpets and rows of mirrors that are set at an angle in a nod to the perspective-bending decor often found in nightlife venues. Only clothing displays provide a colourful contrast. Its interior is lined in fabric and thick carpet.

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New store, new website, new vision: Here’s what’s next for Koskela

Inside Retail

What prompted you to move to a new space in North Sydney? We could have stayed, but going through Covid-19, and shifting the whole of the retail operation to an e-commerce strategy gave us the opportunity to get off that treadmill of having a seven-day-a-week physical retail space and to reimagine what a retail experience could be like.

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Why design brand Koskela is rethinking the way it sells furniture

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What we found was that having a 100-year-old warehouse space that relied on a lot of foot traffic to make it work didn’t really necessarily sell furniture in the best way. While Koskela offered this service in its previous store, there was no dedicated space for it. It was harder to personalise things as well.”.

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Studio Anne Holtrop creates gypsum walls that look like fabric for Maison Margiela store

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Located at 22 Bruton Street, the boutique is laid out across 190-square-metres and displays Maison Margiela's Co-Ed collections , with men's and women's ready-to-wear alongside accessories such as shoes, jewellery and eyewear. Gypsum partition walls separate the retail space.