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...Amid the recent collapse of British retail institutions, from department-store chains Debenhams and House of Fraser to luxury retailer Matchesfashion, the idea that a fashion boutique could welcome a million...
...Now Esther Jun’s sprightly new production (the European premiere) goes back to the original 2011 stage version, which has the great benefit of placing the audience in the store with the characters; Mona...
...It was these creations that inspired the store’s name – “in between a boy’s and girl’s” – and that brought the brand cult status....
...“I’m a big ’80s and ’90s girl....
...ballet dancer with the Royal Swedish Ballet School before pivoting to acting in her late teens, and was propelled to fame after winning an Oscar for her portrayal of the painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl...
...“I was always a downtown girl,” she says of her former West Village dwelling. “But my studio is here, and my clients, and the commute was killing me.”...
...While the girls tried in vain to touch the 3.8m-deep bottom, I wallowed nostril-deep in the shallows, digesting my kill....
...“I was suddenly just another trapped girl in the office with Crispin Odey.” Later that year, she and Odey were talking in a meeting room where he tended to store his shooting equipment....
...They have three flagship stores, are carried in 270 department stores and boutiques and relaunched The Row e-commerce site earlier this year....
...“These ideas of boutiques and in-store events and fashion shows in stores, it became an experience. It changed how people consumed fashion.”...
...Blahnik opened his first boutique in 1971, on Old Church Street in Chelsea. It still exists today – a tiny, chic outpost based quietly off the King’s Road....
...“For me, fashion was never about the boutique-type thing. It was always about the energy of subcultures....
...When the stores finally closed down, the VHS tapes and DVDs were shipped in bulk to the historic town of Salemi, Sicily....
...A 30-year-old Ukrainian store assistant at a Forte fashion boutique, Voznovych arrives in sunglasses and a blazer, sits down and lights a cigarette....
...When Silver dropped into his store on Melrose Avenue earlier this week, he saw a red Karl Lagerfeld dress that “three people were trying to buy”....
...The most obvious pastime nearby is shopping, but this area is more about mainstream brands than the charming boutiques in the Marais....
...Everybody said, if you go to London, you have to go to the most beautiful store in the world.”...
...A self-taught artist, Vautrin learnt how to make objects in gilt and bronze as a young girl watching her father work in his metal foundry....
...It is already facing a big enough challenge in taking a sprawling a retail empire that encompasses discount sports shops, department stores and fashion boutiques upmarket just as a recession looms....
...In 1992 the company had 250 artisans in workshops above the Hermès flagship store in Paris....
...Now a boutique hotel run by Parladé’s nephew, Andrés, the art- and antique-filled finca still bears the imprint of its former inhabitants, from the well-stocked library to the tapestries hanging in the six...
...She produces about 700 pairs per season, which are sold wholesale through high-end boutiques and ecommerce stores such as Browns, Farfetch, Ssense and LN-CC....
...Mad Lords, a high-end piercing salon with boutiques in Paris, Deauville and Saint Tropez, is reporting a similar increase in demand....
...The company now has 160 boutiques around the world, with plans for 40 more this year....
...store Greenwich St Jewelers....
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