News Briefs Retail – Page 50
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Christian Louboutin's newest men's boutique will be opening this November...
Christian Louboutin's newest men's boutique will be opening this November on Dover Street in the Mayfair area of London. The store is 1,290 square feet and will feature the biggest offering of the designer's men's footwear and bags in the U.K. It follows on the heels of a new store ...
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After opening its econd concept store worldwide in February this...
After opening its econd concept store worldwide in February this year in the SoHo district of New York. Melissa plans to open a Melissa “gallery” in London at the end of the year. Like the one in São Paulo, all the brand's concept stores are meant to be laid out ...
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Pretty Ballerinas inaugurates its second flagship store in Manhattan. After...
Pretty Ballerinas inaugurates its second flagship store in Manhattan. After its shop in Lexington Avenue, the company chose Madison Avenue, another emblematic location. The new 30-square-meter shop features high ceilings and a predominance of rose, black and gold – the corporate colors. Exclusively for this opening, the brand created a ...
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Bessec, one of the most esteemed retailers in France, has...
Bessec, one of the most esteemed retailers in France, has launched its e-shop, which also features the opportunity for visitors to reserve shoes to be tried on in one of its 22 multi-brand shops in Brittany. The French company is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.
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Salvatore Ferragamo had two stores in Baku, the capital of...
Salvatore Ferragamo had two stores in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, which were selling men's and women's shoes, respectively. They have been consolidated into one single shop.
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The British retail chain John Lewis is launching its first...
The British retail chain John Lewis is launching its first collection of U.K.-manufactured footwear, which is being produced in conjunction with a footwear manufacturer in Northamptonshire, NPS Shoes. Both of the autumn 2012 men's and women's collections will go into stores in August and will also be available online.
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The German shoe retail company Kienast will be expanding in...
The German shoe retail company Kienast will be expanding in the next five years. The company plans 30 new stores per year and an investment of €3.5-4 million per year. The focus will be on the specialized retail concept K+K Schuh-Center, with the opening of 25 new stores per year, ...
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Nordstrom plans to open its first full flagship store in...
Nordstrom plans to open its first full flagship store in New York City in 2018. The company hopes to break ground on the 285,000-square-foot, seven-story department store in early 2013. Extell Development Company will be building the flagship. The store will be located in a skyscraper on 57th Street on ...
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Louis Vuitton is planning to open a series of dedicated...
Louis Vuitton is planning to open a series of dedicated shoe salons at premium luxury department stores around the world. The first of them is due to be inaugurated next September inside the new shoe floor that is currently being renovated and expanded at Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store in ...
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Prada has inaugurated its first mono-brand boutique in Ukraine, in...
Prada has inaugurated its first mono-brand boutique in Ukraine, in the capital city of Kiev. Located on the Khreshatyk Passage, the city's luxury shopping destination, the two-floor store is entirely dedicated to Prada women's leathergoods, accessories, shoes and clothing. The Italian luxury fashion brand expects to add 100 stores this ...
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Santoni inaugurated a 150-square-meter boutique in the luxury mall Rockbund...
Santoni inaugurated a 150-square-meter boutique in the luxury mall Rockbund Yi Feng, in Shanghai, on May 17. The move is part of the Italian shoe company's strategy to introduce the brand in China. It already opened stores in Beijing, Guangzhou and Dongguan in 2011.
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Leiser will open its biggest flagship store in Germany at...
Leiser will open its biggest flagship store in Germany at the end of August. The store is located on Frankfurt's biggest shopping street. After the opening of the company's insolvency proceedings at the end of May, Leiser is now able to continue its business without reservations. Leiser has been able ...
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Irregular Choice opened its first store in Hong Kong in...
Irregular Choice opened its first store in Hong Kong in March and its first store in Paris in June this year, as part of a plan to open 18 to 24 mono-brand stores over the next three to five years around the world. It recently closed its New York flagship ...
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Palladium opened two new stores in London at the start...
Palladium opened two new stores in London at the start of this year. One of the stores is based in the shopping center Westfield Stratford City, near the Olympic stadium. The second store is located in the pop-up shopping center Boxpark Shoreditch in East London. Boxpark Shoreditch will be open ...
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Brandos, which is described as the leading Swedish shoe e-tailer,...
Brandos, which is described as the leading Swedish shoe e-tailer, has reportedly revealed a plan to become No. 1 in both France and the whole of Western Europe. Founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Fredrik Juto and Karl-Johan Pantzar, the company specializes in good-quality, lesser-known brands. Instead of aggressive marketing, ...
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In an interesting combination, a German fashion magazine for the...
In an interesting combination, a German fashion magazine for the general public, Joy, is partnering with a German online shop for shoes, called I'm Walking, to offer styles by some 250 brands under the schuhe.joy.de domain. I'm Walking is part of Baur Versand, which belongs to the Otto Group as ...
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House of Fraser is understood to be following Selfridges, Harrods...
House of Fraser is understood to be following Selfridges, Harrods and other department stores in the rest of Europe in enlarging and revamping its shoe floor. Its flagship store on Oxford Street in London will accommodate a World of Shoes of 12,500 square feet in the lower level of its ...
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Ugg Australia has opened its first-ever Ugg for Men store,...
Ugg Australia has opened its first-ever Ugg for Men store, an 800-square-foot flagship on Madison Avenue in New York that is connected to its Ugg Australia store. The men's store, whose décor was inspired by the Museum of Nautical History in London, offers footwear, leathergoods, outerwear and accessories.
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Wortmann is going to launch its own online shop for...
Wortmann is going to launch its own online shop for its Tamaris brand this autumn. It will initially service the markets of Germany and Austria, and then be extended to other countries. The logistics will be handled by a third party.
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Once Hermès' new pop-up shop on the rue de Sèvres...
Once Hermès' new pop-up shop on the rue de Sèvres closes on July 19, the company will undertake a renovation of the space to open a boutique with the banner Shang Xia, Hermès' Asian-inspired label. The company had previously announced that the Shang Xia boutique would open this spring, but ...
