Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Introduction Significance of Store Windows in Retail Retail displays evolved from the simplicity of handwritten signs strategically positioned both inside and outside stores during the 1800s. In retail, where the importance of first impressions cannot be understated, store windows become the brand frontline ambassadors.

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Instore Design

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

While visiting a local electronics retailer, you find a display dedicated to your cell phone brand. You even find a full display of your favorite designer clothing in the local department store. You enter a bookstore and find a coffee shop conveniently tucked inside.

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 23, 2022

French shoe brand Nodaleto has chosen Miami as the location of its first US store, which New York studio Rafael de Cárdenas designed with sci-fi-influenced red and chrome interiors. The shop opened in Miami Design District during the city's art week earlier this month, starting a two-year lease in the 1,000-square-metre space (10,764 feet).

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

For smaller companies like Pop Up Grocer, which opened its first permanent bricks-and-mortar store in March in New York City’s West Village, that includes curating a well-rounded selection of independently owned food, beverage and lifestyle products for consumers to explore through in-store shopping and events and via a monthly subscription box.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2021

Australian property group Mirvac is displaying Indigenous art in its shopping centres and office buildings across Australia this NAIDOC Week (July 4 to July 11) as part of a partnership with Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. The store has a weighted average lease expiry of 10.5 The department store saw sales fall 13.1

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Litmus Retail Group has partnered with Myer on a physical showroom concept that will enable the department store to display big and bulky products, such as treadmills, e-scooters and stand-up desks, and track how consumers are engaging with them to inform future buying decisions. That’s where Litmus comes in.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 14, 2022

TAG Heuer has worked with the world’s leading department store for over 20 years, sharing a commitment to offering watchmaking excellence in an environment known for unparalleled luxury. TAG Heuer unveils today its exhibition windows and pop-up at London’s iconic shopping destination, Harrods.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

Since Battersea Power Station reopened less than two years ago, major retailers have flocked to open innovative retail spaces and concepts. Its store design pays homage to the industrial history of Battersea and is inspired by mid-century sci-fi films. I caught the tube to spend the morning there and it was definitely worth the visit.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Battersea Power Station Located in London, UK, Battersea Power Station has transformed a 170,000sqm development in the heart of central London into a community of homes, shops, bars, restaurants, cafes, offices and over 19 acres of public space. In addition, Chadstone offers over 10,000 complimentary car spaces and an optional valet service.

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Dezeen

MARCH 23, 2024

London department store Selfridges has opened The Joke Shop, a "shoppable comedy store" that sells products including sneezing powder and has windows filled with whoopee cushions and slipping bananas. The impression of a genuine joke shop was so strong that customers felt we had scented the space, which we hadn't."

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Retail Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

EL&N Café, famously dubbed as “the most instagrammable café in the world”, has secured almost 8,000 sq ft of space on the bustling New Street, adjacent to Zara, and will offer an expansive 20m double-height frontage.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 28, 2021

This premium pop-up space in Harrods was designed, manufactured and installed by Lucky Fox for wellness brand, OTO – the UK-based brand bringing the benefits of CBD into the beauty industry. But ensuring the space made an impact amidst a busy department store was important too. OTO X Harrods X Lucky Fox.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2023

“The design concept is represented in a way that the separation between the old space and the new space is vague, by installing the lights on the glass on top of the sticky residue of tapes on the floor, and these floor lights, unlike the ordinary ceiling lights, create the extraordinary mood of upside-down.”.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 21, 2022

Dutch studio AMO has created a terracruda-clad shop-in-shop with curving tiered shelving for French-fashion brand Jacquemus at luxury department store Selfridges. The boutique was installed as a permanent retail space located on the ground floor of London department store Selfridges and is host to Jacquemus bags and accessories.

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Design Middleeast

JANUARY 25, 2020

More and more people are just entering stores to feel the fabric, try the item and purchasing them online. So, how can a retail space be called successful in given so many factors? Although we add curious elements throughout our designed spaces, functionality, and aesthetic purpose are at the core of our designs.”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2024

Think digital displays, posters, in-store radio and aisle-end displays through to digital media, indoor and outdoor billboard space, catalogues, customer magazines – even down to branded single-use coffee cups or messages on hold for call centres – everything that can be classified as owned media.

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Nahanco

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

National Hanger Company is the retail supply source for all types of clothing stores, including department stores, specialty stores, consignment shops, thrift stores and any other type of retail location that needs visual merchandising support. Here are a few tips for making the most out of your store’s footprint.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 13, 2021

Housed in the world’s most famous department store, the space will provide an immersive customer experience, as retailers reopen their doors following months in lockdown. Within Selfridges , Roper and Diagon have created a captivating space to reflect the ethos and core values of Pangaia.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

Last month, American fashion label Kith expanded into the country, opening its largest flagship store in Seoul’s Seongsu neighbourhood with dedicated retail space, Sadelle’s restaurant and a sophisticated lounge area. Dior] organised the Lady Dior Celebration exhibition, featuring 24 South Korean artists with 42 works on display.

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Dezeen

APRIL 25, 2023

Lime-washed walls meet aluminium display fixtures in this minimalist studio and showroom that designer Hollie Bowden has devised for London brand Completedworks. But founder Anna Jewsbury felt it was time for Completedworks to have its own brick-and-mortar space. "We

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So in looking for opportunities above the parapet to adapt and innovate, and to prioritise resources right now, it might be useful to first look at the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which tells us clothing, footwear, accessories and department stores all experienced a marginal decline in July turnover compared with June 2024.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

Last month, American fashion label Kith expanded into the country, opening its largest flagship store in Seoul’s Seongsu neighbourhood with dedicated retail space, Sadelle’s restaurant and a sophisticated lounge area. Dior] organised the Lady Dior Celebration exhibition, featuring 24 South Korean artists with 42 works on display.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Located in the Wonder Room at Selfridges in London, the temporary store was created to launch a new collection of Coach products crafted from reused leather bags and recycled materials. We mirrored Coach's circular ethos for the collection through three approaches to the physical space."

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Retail Focus

JULY 27, 2022

Champagne maker Moët & Chandon opened its first permanent space in Europe within the Harrods beauty halls in London on 7th July 2022. The centre piece of the space facing out onto Basil Street in Knightsbridge is an organic, hand-sculpted chandelier, that spans a curving bar and visually connects the bar with its environs.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Before the pandemic, the Chinese special administrative region had bucked global trends of declining demand for multi-brand department stores and ultra-luxury brands largely due to its attractiveness to high-spending mainland visitors. British luxury department store Harvey Nichols is at the forefront of the changes.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Art director Willo Perron has designed the first pop-up store for Kim Kardashian 's underwear brand SKIMS, which is in Paris and furnished with glossy, chunky display units and partitions. The SKIMS Paris pop-up store by Willo Perron is replete with chunky partitions and display units.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

Known as a trailblazer, Revlon was once the most radical company in its space. When business was booming, Revlon’s strategy was to expand sales through mass market department stores, as well as buying expensive advertising. What went wrong? As a strategy, this worked well into the 2000s, but failed dismally thereafter.

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Retail Focus

JULY 24, 2024

These ephemeral spaces are designed to captivate consumers, offering them immersive experiences that go far beyond traditional retail encounters. These spaces are meticulously crafted to transport visitors into a brand’s world, offering a multi-sensory experience that engages sight, sound, touch, and sometimes even taste and smell.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

The first store will open later this year at The Americana at Brand, a shopping centre in Los Angeles, and reportedly be around 30,000 square feet – much smaller than a typical department store, which is around 100,000 square feet. How Amazon Style works. Amazon Style claims to be a “new way” to shop and discover fashion.

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Rose

JULY 28, 2023

In fact, 55% of first impressions are based on what we see , which means it’s crucial for retailers to add eye-catching displays and visuals that attract customers and command attention — especially to new products or brands that might otherwise get lost in the vast assortment of merchandise.

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Dezeen

MAY 17, 2022

Indoor trees, natural light and a sculptural 12-metre-high waterfall help to create a calming shopping experience inside the Hyundai Seoul department store in Seoul , with interiors designed by Canadian studio Burdifilek. The second floor, housing high-end womenswear, is a neutral gallery-like space with a subdued tonal palette.

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Design Week

APRIL 15, 2021

Pantone has revealed its first physical store in Hong Kong which hopes to lead customers into a “different dimension” of colour. Billed as a Lifestyle Gallery, the 600 square ft space is located in the Cityplaza department store in the Tai Koo district. Pantone’s new homeware collection.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 2, 2022

UK studio Foster + Partners has unveiled an Apple Store in west London that incorporates stone columns, Ficus trees and terrazzo flooring. Located between the Harrods and Harvey Nichols department stores in Knightsbridge, Apple Brompton Road is the latest store designed by Foster + Partners for the technology brand.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Be it large-scale printed graphics showing football players in action in sportswear shops, or even digital screens inviting displaying videos of a fashion show in high-end clothing stores, there is huge scope for signs and graphics in retail. The greyback media also has an air escape feature that allows for quick and easy application.

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VMS

JULY 28, 2021

In the Montpellier branch, however, this is teamed up with Monop’ Daily, a French food-for-now and food-for-later retailer (and an offshoot of mid-market department store Monoprix) and a travel version of skincare and beauty retailer L’Occitane en Provence. On a somewhat larger scale and in the U.K.,

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If physical stores are meant to be the embodiment of a rag trader’s brand, any absence of identity and vision will be on display for customers alongside the racks of clothing. Retailers must be clearer than ever about the feeling they’re selling – not just the product,” he added. We all grew up with a shop on every corner.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, Dior has created The Fabulous World of Dior , a spectacular presentation illuminating the hallowed halls of the world-famous Harrods department store. WINDOW DISPLAYS, A CELEBRATION OF DREAMS AND DIOR SAVOIR- FAIRE. PRECIOUS SETTINGS: TWO EXCLUSIVE MULTI-EXPERIENCE POP- UPS.

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