published in Springwise:
photo: A Vida Portuguesa
Taking a firm stand in the face of globalization, A Vida Portuguesa has tracked down Portugal’s unique brands and opened a store dedicated to products that have resisted the urge to keep up with changing times.
At the store, located in a former soap factory in Lisbon’s traditional-yet-hip neighbourhood of Chiado, customers can find over 1,000 products that have maintained their original packaging, that are made by hand, or that represent traditional Portuguese craftsmanship. Soaps, pencils, mugs, jewelry, notebooks, coffee, tea, blankets and even toothpaste—everything on stock holds a fragment of the nation’s collective memory. Some items are widely available and familiar throughout Portugal, while others were almost impossible to find and buy before the store opened. Continue Reading »
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photo: www.hamburg.de
Frans Prins is actively involved in new green lifestyle and he now starts a new fair for organic fashion in Berlin: thekey.to. Coinciding with the new Bread & Butter trade show at the former airport Tempelhof thekey.to will be held in early July 2009 at a secret location in Berlin.
Besides all the other embarrassing fairs for organic and fair traded fashion in Germany, this event finally promises real new spirit for the scene. Therefore, it is probably advisable to keep the vision-free, mid-aged eco-generation out: Only those who have the key to the event may enter.
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Barbie celebrates her 50th birthday at colette, March 9th-28th ! Barbie embodies glamour, fashion and feminity for over 5 decades. She naturally settles down at colette for her birthday, where designers make theirs her environment.
An amazing event for 50 years of success and for a tribute to the icon of the biggest designers.
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Posted in Concept Stores, Stores, art | Tagged colette, paris, toy | 1 Comment »
photo: dunhill.com
For some reason the brand Alfred Dunhill is well known for tobacco-products today. But it’s more: It’s one of the rare worldwide pure men’s brands. Now Dunhill steps forward into it’s own past and opens amazing “Homes of Alfred Dunhill” worldwide – London, Shanghai and Tokyo have been realized already. Continue Reading »
Posted in Concept Stores | Tagged colonial style, french concession, kinza, london, luxury retail, mayfair, shanghai, tokyo | Leave a Comment »
photo: www.reise-weblog.de
Now we have just a few weeks left before christmas and it’s time to name the most exciting christmas-markets in the world. Beyond sport-socks-traders and similar stuff.
The german commercial website www.weihnachtsmarkt-deutschland.de lists a lot of inspiring markets already, e.g. those which take place in castles.
Please add a comment with your favourite location below!
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photo: www.streetsblog.org
This report really reconfirms my statement: Let’s move around the corners and develop retail with sense and sustainability!
from: “Thomas Daily News International, issue Nov 21st, 2008:
Retail: Rents in global luxury locations keep on rising
Fifth Avenue in New York (€1,051/sqm/month), Causeway Bay in Hong Kong (€1,031/sqm/month) and the Champs Elysées in Paris (€644/sqm/month) are still the most expensive retail locations in the world. Continue Reading »
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These are collected impressions from freshly renovated Colette store in Paris, the mother of all concept stores. By Suzy Menkes (Herald Tribune).
Posted in Concept Stores | Tagged colette, herald tribune, paris, suzy menkes | Leave a Comment »
photo: http://schulen.eduhi.at
LOHAS are Yeti’s! Everything seems to confirm that: They are addicted to nature, extremly focused on themselves. Ideally they live in LOHAS-groups but they still remain being loner, trying to be as unique as possible. Continue Reading »
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged germany, lohas, messner, paul ray, sustainability, yeti | Leave a Comment »
photo: hessnatur
Last weekend hessnatur opened it’s flagship-store in Munich, Germany. The store is about 500 sqm big and offers the complete range of hessnatur’s products: organic fashion, shoes, accessories and cosmetics. Continue Reading »
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photo: www.meijersschoenen.com
photo: www.meijersschoenen.com
Imagine a perfect shoestore.
Many years ago you bought a pair of classical, semi-handcrafted shoes in this store and just because you didn’t care about the shoes always as you should have done, unfortunately they begin to fall apart… You want to buy them again.
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photo: www.99only.com-website
A short US press-release was published in German newspapers these days: The US-store chain 99c only rises it’s prices – ending up where?… Continue Reading »
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