News Briefs Retail – Page 53
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Sergio Rossi inaugurates a new store design concept at its...
Sergio Rossi inaugurates a new store design concept at its 5-year-old Shinjuku Takashimaya flagship in Tokyo. The shape of the furnishing is inspired by the curvaceous silhouette of its high-heeled shoes.
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From Nov. 5 to Dec. 1, Sorel will be present...
From Nov. 5 to Dec. 1, Sorel will be present for the first time in the men's section of Galeries Lafayette's flagship store in Paris. The Canadian brand has been selling its products in the women's section of the department store since winter 2011. Sorel's sales diminished by 15 percent ...
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Frank Wright has launched a new transactional website allowing customers...
Frank Wright has launched a new transactional website allowing customers to streamline their footwear selection based on price, color options and styles. The new site of the British shoemaker also features a “Style Notes” section providing outfit suggestions and styling tips, as well as a blog section where customers can ...
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Dr. Martens is opening its first store in Boston, the...
Dr. Martens is opening its first store in Boston, the eighth in the U.S., at 201 Newbury Street. The 3,000-square-foot store will sell men's and women's boots and shoes, as well as clothing and accessories, two categories the company entered last year.
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Selfridges, which already boasts a successful, enlarged women's shoe department...
Selfridges, which already boasts a successful, enlarged women's shoe department at its flagship store in London, has now opened a men's footwear department of 15,000 square feet, said to be the largest one of the kind in the world. Twice bigger than before, it offers 3,200 styles by 250 brands, ...
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Ugg is opening its first store in Paris. It is...
Ugg is opening its first store in Paris. It is the first of a series of 15 stores that the brand wants to set up in France. Ugg already has seven boutiques in the U.K.
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Federcalzature, the Italian association of shoe retailers, has announced an...
Federcalzature, the Italian association of shoe retailers, has announced an agreement with Barclaycard to facilitate online payments for the customers of its retail members. They will be able to pay with any credit card from Italy or from foreign countries. For the retailer, one condition is that it must generate ...
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Schuh, the successful British chain catering to young customers in...
Schuh, the successful British chain catering to young customers in the U.K., is launching a new format for children, called Schuh Kids. The first three stores of the kind are set to open at Braehead in Scotland, at the Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex and at Liverpool One, adjoining the ...
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Crockett & Jones has inaugurated its sixth stand-alone shop in...
Crockett & Jones has inaugurated its sixth stand-alone shop in the U.K. Located in the elegant Knightsbridge area, in the heart of London, just at walking distance from Harrods, the new store brings the total number of stand-alone shops for the brand to ten, including the other doors in France, ...
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Moreschi has inaugurated a new 220-square-meter showroom in Piazza San...
Moreschi has inaugurated a new 220-square-meter showroom in Piazza San Carlo, in the heart of Milan. It is designed as an open space and is decorated in a technological and contemporary urban style. The Italian brand already has a store in Milan, in the centrally located Piazza San Babila. Although ...
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Pedro Garcia is to launch its new e-commerce site in...
Pedro Garcia is to launch its new e-commerce site in the autumn, making the brand even more accessible to all kind of customers in the U.S. and Europe. Established in the early 1920s by Pedro Garcia as a children's footwear workshop, some 80 years later the Alicante-based luxury footwear company ...
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Pedro Miralles has announced that it will open two mono-brand...
Pedro Miralles has announced that it will open two mono-brand stores in Beijing, at the Shin Kong Place and YouYi Shopping City malls, by the end of the year. The Spanish women's fashion shoe brand, headquartered near Alicante, also has plans to open a third Chinese store in the city ...
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Stuart Weitzman has launched his online store in Europe, offering...
Stuart Weitzman has launched his online store in Europe, offering the whole range of products sold under his label in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Payments can be made in euros or pounds sterling.
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Sergio Rossi has also launched its e-commerce site, the first...
Sergio Rossi has also launched its e-commerce site, the first one of those planned by the recently established joint venture between PPR and Yoox Group. The online store can be browsed through in English, French, Italian German, Russian and Japanese, and it can take orders from 100 different countries except ...
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Nordstrom will start opening its first stores in Canada next...
Nordstrom will start opening its first stores in Canada next year. Three of them will occupy the premises vacated by Sears at the Chinook Centre of Calgary in the autumn of 2014, at the Rideau Centre of Ottawa in the spring of 2015, and at the Pacific Centre of Vancouver ...
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Repetto has inaugurated a store in Dubai and a shop-in-shop...
Repetto has inaugurated a store in Dubai and a shop-in-shop in the Milan flagship store of La Rinascente, the Italian department store chain. The French brand of ballerinas has gone ahead with the planned opening of four stores in Japan since the beginning of this year. Other recent openings have ...
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A Portuguese shoe company, Claçado Guimarães, has opened its first...
A Portuguese shoe company, Claçado Guimarães, has opened its first store in Spain. It is located in a new shopping mall, called El Faro, at Badajoz near the Spanish border with Portugal. The company already has 37 directly managed stores in Portugal.
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Corso Como District is the name of the newest fashion...
Corso Como District is the name of the newest fashion district of Milan, taking from the famous fashion store at 10 Corso Como. A recently rehabilitated area that extends from the pedestrian Corso Como to Piazza della Repubblica, in the city center, will host about 50 stores, showrooms, restaurants, art ...
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Kurt Geiger is reportedly planning to shut down five of...
Kurt Geiger is reportedly planning to shut down five of its 60 stores in the U.K. and to open 15 stores in Germany over the next 154 months. Now a property of The Jones Group, the third-largest British shoe retailer is also planning to open between 10 and 15 stores ...
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Aldo opened a pop-up store at Galeries Lafayette in Paris...
Aldo opened a pop-up store at Galeries Lafayette in Paris on Sept. 3. There, the Canadian brand presents a preview of the latest creations for fall/winter 2012 signed by Preen, present for the second season, and Patrik Ervell, the New York designer who signs his first collection for the brand. ...
