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Women fashion brand Alamour The Label will launch its first flagship store in Sydney in mid-month, marking its expansion from online to physical retail. The store, located at 255C Oxford Street, has a Mediterranean-inspired design in nude and gold tones and offers a range of collections, including the Le Rouge and Honey lines.
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Global expansion Dion Lee’s biggest market is in the US, so expanding the brand’s physical store footprint to the States was the next logical move. “We Miller, who served his last tenure as CEO and chief creative officer at the Collected Group for seven years, is well positioned to lead Dion Lee toward global expansion.
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