LN-CC in London.

The innovative retail concept LN-CC opened their stunning new store in East London. It’s 5,000 sq ft  and, in their own words, “more of an installation piece than a traditional shop fit”. Comprised of three concept rooms stocked with their latest collections from both high-end and avantgarde designers, a book and record store, a club [...]

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Blackmarket in Singapore.

The Blackmarket Group is a collective of designers for media and art. They develop “unexpected concepts from ordinary ideas” in the fields of broadcast, illustration, branding, fine art, fashion, literature, interactive media and music. They also run The Blackmarket Concept Store that promotes local and regional designers, helping them to market their creations both domestically [...]

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organic fashion as art @ NY fashion week.

German-based fashion brand hessnatur, held a spectacular fashion/art-event in New York yesterday. The label, creating just 100% organic clothes for more than 30 years already, had installed some wooden sculptures with organic fabrics, all under direction of the brand’s new head of design Miguel Adrover. Great photos are to be found at Flickr.

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The Guerrilla Stores.

Comme des Garcons is a fashion brand, refusing to be one. The PradaGuccis build themselves monuments with fashion-capital’s flagship-stores - Comme des Garcons instead opens Guerilla Stores at alternative locations for just a year. And re-opens them somewhere else.

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Hidden lifestyle in Zurich.

Who escapes the Zurich-typical luxury hype of Bahnhofstrasse and boring ‘hight street’ Rennweg to enter Niederdorf across the Rathaus-bridge wins more sustainable impressions of Switzerland:

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Congratulations, Quartier 206.

Slowretail may be luxury, too. As long as we’re talking about retail experience. A very special place for high-end shopping experience is the Quartier 206 Departmentstore in Berlin which recently celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary.

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The world of Concept Stores.

The term Concept Store as the description for a new retail concept is not chosen very well. Usually normal stores do have concepts, too. So what is it about these Concept Stores?

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Herr von Eden.

His name is not von Eden, his name is Jensen. Mr. Jensen designs fashion for Women and Men and sells it in his Herr von Eden-Stores in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Munich and Copenhagen.

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Prada meets Dirndl.

The retail company Lodenfrey in Bavaria (not everybody’s sure they belong to Germany) was founded in 1842 and is still family owned. Respect! And now they invest millions of money in the company’s future: Enlarging size and range of brands, modernizing interior and image. Trading up and aging down. The world’s largest Dirndl department will be kept thank god, this [...]

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China’s fashion missionares.

The entire world literally looks at China. China’s culture is about to be forgotten or soaked by western influences. Shanghai Tang had already realized this trend more than a decade ago and preserves at least the chinese clothing tradition: creating luxury fashion in traditional design.

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Organic fashion’s flagship.

Hess Natur is the european marketleader in producing ecological fashion since more than 30 years. Today the mailorder company, based in central Germany, is developed to become a strong fashion brand, using organic and fair traded materials only. The quality standards are the highest in the market: no chemical fabrics or ingredients, ethic manufacturing, sustainable management.

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Designer fashion in a pub

The fashion designer John Rocha has opened his new London store in a former pub. Close to Bond Street the store replaces the traditional pub “The Duke of Albemarle” which was established in 1686. The monument-protected building now contains three floors with John Rocha’s fashion and crystal objects, designed for Waterford.

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