Retail Focus

JUNE 2, 2021

In an effort to hero talent from across the nation, and to support the arts industry as London re-opens, Westfield is backing a campaign by artist Laura Nevill entitled #LetsDoLondonBetter , which aims to raise profiles for local artists and generate support across the UK for creative communities to flourish.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 14, 2025

The catalogue is designed to align with the specific needs of each target market, with custom-made playlists that help establish a consistent and unique atmosphere, increasing customers’ emotional engagement and connection to the retail space. Its musical variety helps keep both customers and staff engaged.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2025

The international success of prominent K-pop artists such as BTS, Blackpink, and Stray Kids has catalysed unprecedented levels of consumer engagement, resulting in expanded market opportunities for merchandising. “Singapore is a key market with a passionate fanbase and high consumer engagement.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 30, 2025

Meanwhile, Peach Riot, an IP by North American artist Libby, continued its international success, and newly launched Twinkle Twinkle demonstrated strong early traction in the market. Immersive offline stores will remain essential, offering vibrant designs, themed displays, and social spaces to engage young consumers.

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APRIL 2, 2025

The newly furbished QVB store aims to enhance the traditional shopping experience by inviting customers to engage with the aromas, flavours, and textures of T2s extensive tea collection. All of our new stores will have artist collaborations in some sort. At the core of our ethos is collaboration with artistry.

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JANUARY 5, 2025

The retail strategist emphasised that it is increasingly important to encourage digital engagement in tandem with physical store visits. Anything from hosting purpose-driven events like workshops or art installations to engage audiences [is possible], but personalisation is key, he said.

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Retail Focus

MAY 31, 2022

We love working with the team as they always make us feel welcome and allow us to thrive within such an engaged community of retailers and customers.”. The post The King’s Road welcomes Seraphina for long standing seasonal pop-up residencey appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design.

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Retail Focus

JULY 30, 2021

Later this year, the store will exhibit sculptural pieces by London-based artist Zuza Mengham. Steps from the Royal Academy of Arts, Liberty London, Apple and Soho’s offices, Bally’s Regent Street store sits at the corner of Glasshouse Street in London’s West End. Nicolas Girotto, Bally CEO.

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MARCH 15, 2025

After several decades of creating iconic looks on high-end runways and in editorial shoots for magazines, including Allure and Vogue , makeup artist Pat McGrath decided to launch her eponymous beauty brand in 2015. Lim cautioned that Pat McGrath’s challenge lies in democratising artistic, transformative makeup for a broader audience.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

The Otherside Brewlounge – which will open in the middle of this year – will also showcase WA music and artists with local music shows and live sports viewing for fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers who frequent the airport.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global giant Apple’s Today at Apple events transform retail environments into artistic and instructional venues. Relationships that create brand stickiness and self-sustaining brand engagement. Interactive displays, charging stations, and free wi-fi allow groups as well as individuals to be engaged.

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

While the company partnered with architectural firm David Chipperfield Architects Milan for its flagship store in the vibrant district of Shibuya Center-Gai, in China, Charles & Keith integrated Chengdu-exclusive features in collaboration with local artists to showcase local culture.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

Peter Cooley, CEO of First Hand Solutions Aboriginal Corporation, organisers of the art fair, said the event is designed to welcome, educate and engage visitors. It’s an occasion to meet remote community artists and hear their stories.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With new collaboration possibilities with brands and artists, we’re looking at a holistic customer approach at various touchpoints in their lives, we’re looking to drive further awareness of our brand,” he added. Customers were excited and were engaging in the space as we’d hoped,” Ng said.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 19, 2022

Long before Covid, retailers were lacking a certain originality having become too transactional, but in the years leading up to 2020, imaginative changes were already being made to re-engage consumers. One of the ways we achieved this was by commissioning sustainable artist James Shaw to produce the surfaces.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2023

Louis Vuitton has launched a brand-new collection with world renowned artist Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi Kusama’s presence is further felt with a monumental, 15m high life-like statue of the artist, unveiled outside the Hans Crescent façade, painting dots onto the Harrods’ exterior.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

Asias leading street culture convention Culture Cartel has brought together more than 250 global and regional brands, artists, and creators to the Singapore Expo. Mandeep Chopra: Collaborations have been a successful strategy for brands to expand their reach and connect with audiences they may not typically engage.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Instead, it has unlocked new artistic horizons and is reflective of the artistry and skill that go into creating Atoir’s garments. A local stylist, Paul Versace, collaborated with Atoir to work through each look and created a styling page per shot for AI artists in the UK to bring all the elements together and the campaign to life.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 16, 2023

Crafting brand narratives through popup stores can be an effective strategy to engage customers, create buzz, and build a unique brand experience. Creating interactive experiences: Engaging customers through interactive experiences that allow them to connect emotionally with the brand is essential.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2022

Online marketplace Redbubble says its sales fell by 16 per cent in the third quarter, despite a high level of returning customers who first engaged with the brand during Covid lockdowns. In a trading update, the company said its third-quarter sales fell to $384 million with gross profit down by 22 per cent to $144 million.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From humble beginnings as a fitness-focused apparel brand to a global business with a rapidly growing retail network, Staxs journey showcases the power of community engagement, strategic product evolution, and adaptability in a dynamic market. Looking back, Don sees the shows as extensions of the new Stax retail store design concept.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Rather than investing in and delivering on their brand promise, they focus on other, often supplementary, marketing strategies such as launching engaging campaigns, brands may believe they can substitute competence with warmth. Swift’s brand promise has always centred on quality products.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The event, starting on September 16, will see the participation of artists, designers, DJ’s, chefs and other talents, who will turn their homes into stages for performance. Ikea Festival will take place in more than 100 homes across more than 50 countries, and is open to everyone.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

It also has 100 per cent recycled countertops made of recycled plastic headed for the landfill, along with a bespoke mural ‘You Are Here’ by local Indigenous artist, Rachael Sarra. This new concept store amplifies our activist roots in a way that truly engages customers in the stories behind our products and encourages them to join us.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Besides working on continually improving our LifeWear offering, we have also introduced new special collaborations with Japanese womenswear brand Mame Kurogouchi, outdoors-inspired streetwear brand White Mountaineering and international artist Jeff Koons for the first time.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The new store features a design that pays homage to the urban flair of Hong Kong through local artistic elements and the exclusive unveiling of the Maison’s new line of home decor. Our design incorporates openwork bamboo ceilings, mosaic furniture and artistic wall drawings, conjuring a world of sophistication and eclecticism.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It’s truly a celebration of all the incredibly talented designers, creatives, artists, producers and partners that have all contributed to the Melbourne fashion scene over the last three decades,” he added. In that time, more than 10 million people have engaged with the capsules and enjoyed them,” revealed Flinn. “I

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Although these three brands operate in very different retail sectors, Li, Piper and Pearson agreed on a few common tactics for effectively engaging with the Gen Z consumer, from focusing on and enhancing the in-store shopping experience to learning how to “share the pen” with this younger, social-media-savvy shopper.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Brand founders such as Danessa Myricks, of Danessa Myrics beauty, and makeup artist Patrick Ta participated in live panels, where they discussed and demonstrated both core products and new releases. Events like Beautycon and Sephoria offer an organic and entertaining venue for brands to engage both new and returning customers.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Contributor Hub seeks to make it easier for brands to interact with minority artists and a diverse range of talent, and it stems from research Mys Tyler performed mid-last year highlighting the lack of representation perceived by Australian women in fashion advertising. “We

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During Christmas, when the ingenuity and artistic flair invested in window displays reach an unprecedented zenith, this role shines even more brightly than it does in any other season. Retailers who incorporate interactive elements can encourage passersby to engage with the scene, which enhances the overall experience and makes it memorable.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Many beauty retailers are reliant on physical experiences, but as we remain in lockdown, savvy brands are reimagining how to deliver new engaging experiences virtually by leveraging new technologies. Australians will be excited to return to stores and retailers will need to determine how to engage customers in a meaningful (and safe) way.

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JULY 19, 2024

A three-day residency by renowned First Nations multidisciplinary artist Tommy Day III, in which he created a large-scale artwork live, was at the cornerstone of the celebration. The Chadstone Art Collection has been a testament to amplifying the work local and national artists for over six decades.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Premium and unique touches, such as marble accents, linen curtains, full-height mirrors, designer furniture and hand-crafted paper pendant lights created by local artists, convey a luxurious look and feel and signal the start of a new, more elevated era for the 110-year-old footwear brand, according to Wittner CEO Catherine Williamson.

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JUNE 20, 2021

“Launching our limited-edition Burberry Blanko in Blankos Block Party is our first exploration into the world of NFTs; unlocking an entire new platform of possibilities, empowering digital natives and gamers to own a piece of our brand and to actively engage and participate with our house codes,” said Rod Manley, Burberry’s chief marketing officer.

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APRIL 20, 2021

During the peak of the pandemic, savvy retailers like Mecca embraced livestreaming and experimented with virtual events and digital tools to continue engaging with customers. “In Does going in-store add value through elements such as discovery, services, consultation, social engagement or just pure escapism?

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

To bring this mentality to light, we recently partnered with long-term friend of Canterbury of New Zealand and renowned visual artist, Tom Gould. They engage young people to create positive spaces that educate and normalise conversations about mental health, and that are free from stigma. It’s more than how you look or what you wear.

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