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New Zealand’s Deadly Ponies to open first Australian store

Inside Retail

The company says Melbourne was chosen as the location of the first store because the brand already has a strong fan base there. Launched in 2005, the brand designs products in New Zealand with the majority of stock produced at its own eco-atelier in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to ensure total transparency over the sourcing and supply of its pieces.

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Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte shares his four ingredients for success 

Inside Retail

Product curation When it comes to stocking products, Motte said it’s about curating brands, not having the broadest assortment. “We Sometimes I hear retail is dead, and you know what, boring retail is, that’s for sure. We realised that if you’re in fashion, you have some outstanding moments where the designs come to life.

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

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She said that the new store’s vibe straddles the line between being very racy, as well as daggy and old-fashioned, and will enable customers to experience what is showcased online, and touch and feel the products prior to purchase. From pop-ups to a permanent location.

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Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opens pop-up on Savile Row

Retail Focus

Now the brand is opening its second location at the home of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row. What’s more, his clothing line is crafted using either 100% renewable energy, sustainably sourced cloth or dead stock. For Marcel Rordrigues, the process of hat making is just as important, if not more so than the final product.

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The Party People aims to revamp the shopping experience with AR mirror

Inside Retail

This mirror doesn’t sit inside the store, it will be in its own pop-up location or on a wall. It can be used as its own pop-up store, on dead space like a wall, in a shop window that’s closed for some literal window shopping, or even on a store under construction so people can interact or shop with a brand before it opens.”

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How EMERGE in Color’s Design Connected Black Creatives With Luxury Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

It was executed and curated by Frenchye Harris, Founder of The Black Fashion Movement and Tori Nichel, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Maison Black and a womenswear designer. It can’t be dead stock or something that they had for two years. It has to be relevant,” said Tori Nichel. “

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Inside the rumoured death of physical stores and other predictions for 2022

Inside Retail

Through Covid, we have seen a vast number of permanent store closures, which has somewhat re-ignited the ‘stores are dead’ debate. Once one becomes popular, we seem to quickly look for a new one and proclaim the old one ‘dead’, even if most of the industry hasn’t caught up. Experiential stores. From CBDs to suburbs.