Only a few weeks after declaring its independence from parent company ASICS, sneaker brand Onitsuka Tiger makes its biggest retail statement in the homeland with a new global flagship store, its biggest worldwide, in the bustling Shinjuku district of Tokyo. The retail space is expansive, measuring no less than 1,837 sqm. 919,337 sq.ft.) spread across …
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Forward Japanese fashion brand kolor has had a presence at Shinsaibashi PARCO in Osaka since the latter’s opening in 2020. Aligned with the department store’s major revamp, the brand’s shop-in-shop has relocated to the second floor, featuring a new interior design by DAIKEI MILLS, an acclaimed architecture and interior design practice based in Tokyo. Although …
H.Lorenzo‘s boutique in West Hollywood has been a fixture in the high-fashion retail landscape of Los Angeles for quite some time. As of late, the preferred address of the city’s most discerning shoppers, founded by entrepreneur Lorenzo Hadar, has revealed a brand new interior design, securing its place for the next decade with a sleek …
Human Haus TN transforms a traditional townhouse in Tainan into a contemporary retail space driven by architectural sequence. Responding to the existing structure through minimal intervention, the design preserves exposed brick walls, timber roof framing, and the original proportions of the townhouse while inserting a crisp white volume as a new spatial layer. Selective removal …
Pieter Mulier‘s five-year tenure as ALAÏA‘s creative director has not only put the brand in the global limelight, but also boosted demand, and consequently, a rapid expansion of its retail network. Hot on the heels of a store opening in Beijing, an event we’ve covered in a previous post, ALAÏA has set its sight on …
Saweol Space reimagines a 23 m² corner unit in a mall atrium as a distinctive fashion retail store. The irregular floor plan and 5.5m ceiling maximize display potential and pedestrian flow.
It’s not only the silhouettes of South Korean fashion designer Wook-jun Jung that make heads turn. Similarly avant-garde, Jung has turned the retail spaces of his rising label juun.j into striking understated stages for his designs. Well-rooted in the homeland, juun.j has a sizeable retail network, including a flagship store in Seoul, which we covered …
Messa House is a 350-square-metre retail space in Almaty, Kazakhstan, designed as a place to slow down, offering a quieter alternative to typical fast-paced retail environments. It focuses on how a person actually moves through and senses architecture, letting form, proportion, and material quietly shape the atmosphere instead of competing for attention.
The meteoric rise of India as an economic powerhouse this past decade comes with an increasingly sophisticated and expanding consumer market and talent pool, and it’s a combo which is slowly changing the country’s leading cities on many levels, including retail and shopping. After graduating from NIFT in Delhi and Milan‘s Istituto Marangoni, Indian designer …
The Bottega Veneta store at JK Iguatemi shopping centre in São Paulo, one of two in this sprawling megalopolis, first opened its doors in 2012. With a newly appointed creative director, British-born Louise Trotter, the luxury brand has seen an accelerated roll-out of a new retail aesthetic across the planet. Here, at one of the …
