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...A clever edit of the kinds of products you’d expect to see in a department store, but with a bookish focus, Andelman’s wit and taste will include the brilliantly ironic “cooking bookends” by Harry Nuriev...
...“Someday,” he said, “all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores.”...
...“Online is a much more expensive place to trade than it’s ever been,” says John Edgar, chief executive of department store group Fenwick....
...And many fashion brands simply destroy excess stock to reinforce their brand value, so you’ll rarely find them in the bargain basement websites....
...John Lewis has 34 department stores, sells a range of mid to upper-range fashion brands such as Jigsaw and Whistles, and relies heavily on technology and furniture and furnishings to bolster its top line...
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home is a dull-gold tea caddy from Hankyu, a homeware department store in Osaka. The shop’s craftsman hand-hammered the texture on the outside....
...“I love that red-hot line between sculpture and furniture,” says Ross....
...The Depression killed off her upscale shop, but she rallied, plying Amsterdam’s luxury department store Metz & Co with fabrics all through the lean years....
...Kristina, he says, has worked in almost every department: “As a child, she spent time at our Old Church Street shop, so she understands the company from its foundations.”...
...If you’re buying them in Labour and Wait, as I do, treat yourself also to a pair of the store’s extra-thick black washing-up gloves....
...I love the fact this is a whole different world,” he says. It is not just vintage....
...Printemps department store....
...“We also had the situation where the American department stores would pay to copy our dresses which was highly profitable.” Valentino launched ready-to-wear in 1970, and its first fragrance in 1978....
...They have three flagship stores, are carried in 270 department stores and boutiques and relaunched The Row e-commerce site earlier this year....
...Website; Directions Giolina e Angelo Via Solferino 22A, 20121 Milan Located in the Brera district — famous for its design stores, trendy fashion stores and gourmet restaurants — this family-owned jewellery...
...Pearl specialists Mikimoto and Tasaki are the biggest homegrown global brands in Japan but the retail landscape for jewellery is divided between small jewellers, concept stores, and department stores....
...He loves watchmaking with the passion of a collector....
...Both John Lewis department stores and the Waitrose supermarket chain are battling to regain profitability and the special place they once occupied in the hearts (and wallets) of Middle Englanders....
...“These ideas of boutiques and in-store events and fashion shows in stores, it became an experience. It changed how people consumed fashion.”...
...One of them, Elhanati, landed in luxury US department store Bergdorf Goodman in April....
...Julie Gilhart, chief development officer of fashion showroom and brand incubator Tomorrow London, was the fashion director of New York department store Barneys between 1992 and 2010, when most “It” bags...
...“As a German Jew, I love the idea that [the building] was originally built as a department store by a Jewish family....
...Its Turkish barber shops (there are three on the high street alone) were all bling and bright lights, like department stores before Christmas....
...Michael Ward, managing director of London luxury department store Harrods, said there had been “a shift in aesthetic with customers globally looking for clean investment pieces” rather than the “bright colours...
...“I am very fond of John Lewis, but . . . ” So began a comment under an FT article about the British department store chain last year....
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