Category: store experience
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Weaving Magic: Great Lyle & Scott
Traditional Scottish knitwear brand… Lyle & Scott confirms its transformation into a brand at the vanguard of contemporary youth fashion with a first flagship store on hip Carnaby Street. Straight lines and urban materials sit easily with its trendy neighbours whilst its heritage is woven beautifully into the store fabric through the warmth of wood…
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Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Cath’s Cornucopia
Amongst the proud pillars of Piccadilly a little floral femininity has broken through the winter weather. Cath Kidston’s first flagship is a bright beacon of colour inviting the passer-by to explore a world of nostalgic designs, a celebration of classic kitsch, a veritable house of horticultural hype. Famous for its floral designs Cath Kidston largely…
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Standing on Ceremony: Opening Up a Whole New World
What goes around, comes around, … is at the heart of a retail philosophy that explores and explodes fashion influences from around the globe, to a growing portfolio of stores serving the insatiable appetites of followers across the continents. Opening Ceremony cleverly combines a wardrobe of favourite fashions such as Kenzo with a perpetually changing…
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Brit Tops: Exemplorary Contemporary
Combining classic and contemporary thinking, … is what Burberry Brit is all about. In boutique basements explore the icons from bygones that helped make Burberry the powerhouse brand of today. Traditional Trench with a twist, cool and customisable by button and breast, by colour and collar, lining and length to suit the coolest trend or…
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A Place for Heroes: M&S Positioning for Fashion
Choice can often be the enemy of retail, … particularly in this omni-channel, customer driven landscape, where endless assortment is often the commercial weakness of collections and the bain of time-starved customer. A return to selling must have heroes, and stars, and best sellers and favourites, essentials and most desirables, where the retailer leads the…
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Reveal the Mystery: Swatch & Learn
The price of competition, … may be a Swatch watch but the price of success is repaid many times in customer loyalty and social network buzz. Clever Swatch calculate the cost of a mystery watch giveaway in a sealed box for £25 with any regular purchase. No watch is worth less in the assortment, so…
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Blended Scotch: Dutch Courage from the Avenues of Amsterdam
Own your stores to conquer the world. Amsterdam innovators Scotch & Soda continue to expand with an impressive portfolio of directly owned stores. True to the values of the brand the stores create a journey of exploration combining expected adjacencies with unlikely bedfellows in an environment of creative interest. From its menswear origins the retailer…
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Hackett’s Special Place: Popular by Demand
Hackett’s new home is where the heart is. Moving 200 yards along Regent Street has taken the lifestyle retailer a million miles to a three level elegant emporium combining space to breathe with intimate corners and surprises around every eloquent elevation. Flagship brand distinction, engagement on an emotional level is the name of the Hackett…
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