Category: fast fashion
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Primark Weighs in State Side: Entry of a Fashion Heavyweight
In a statement of international intent Primark fired its first style salvo into the soft belly of the US value fashion market with the opening of its 8,000 sqm Boston flagship. Truly a shopping space full of superlatives, the four floors are home to 530 mannequins, 84 fitting rooms, 73 cash registers and a myriad…
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Larger than Life: Simply Be a Physical Presence
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer service, customer-engagement, fast fashion, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, ladies fashion, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, store layout, store operations, value retailing, visual merchandisingWhilst the most successful physical brands continue to maximise online and mobile opportunities a noteworthy entrant in the opposite direction has recently opened on Oxford Street in London, announcing its serious intent to compete across all channels. Simple Be’s proposition is not just as a highly successful catalogue and online apparel operator but also as…
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Spanish Impresario: Stradivarius’ Virtuoso Performance
Stradivarius makes its first public performance in the biggest venue in town, Westfield Stratford, as the Inditex family sends forth another member making “bridgeheads” and “inroads” into the UK mainland. As with all consummate professionals Stradivarius can’t fail to impress and delight its audience as it pitches the high notes of current fashion, with the…
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Stand & Stare: Pull & Bear Take to the Road
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, fashion accessories, fast fashion, footwear, internationalisation, ladies fashion, menswear, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsThe anti-corporate momentum builds as recognised brands balance the safety of recognition and loyalty with the excitement of individual assortments, personal enhancements and store environments that look like they come off the back of a lorry rather than the end of the corporate conveyer belt. Pull & Bear, from the biggest brand house about, have…
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