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...Go back to any television show from the 1990s or early 2000s and you are likely to find plenty of references to these shopping meccas....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 28 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Nearby Sloane Street is peppered with high-end fashion and jewellery boutiques....
...But the annual San Francisco-based show is still a Mecca for Apple fans and offers an amazing array of accessories, allowing you to clip, carry, protect and even shoot with your iOS and Mac devices....
...“You have to add that many people who shop at the promotional stores also shop on the internet, where sales were abounding from the 1st to the 31st of December,” he said....
...“This is the Mecca of menswear,” says Sunny Wong, managing director of Trinity, which already owns more than 100 Gieves & Hawkes branded stores in south-east Asia....
...Curve, for example, is a Helmut Lang mecca and all-around sensory experience....
...This seems yet another step in the remaking of Manhattan as a fashion mecca, and an example of how much emphasis Mayor Bloomberg’s administration places on the fashion world....
...Beyond general luxury goods and high-end fashion, many premium sports and golf brands have exposure there....
...Next month Harrods (www.harrods.com) is set to unveil the Gentlemen’s Lounge, a 1,216 sq ft mecca for men’s grooming in the store’s basement offering luxury fragrances, grooming products, skincare consultations...
...Swatch Group has long shown itself aloof to prevailing market fashion....
...- and 21st-century fashion....
...The store will be a pink mecca for all things Barbie and will attempt to broaden the doll’s appeal to older girls and their mothers....
...Several buy-out groups have dropped plans to sell companies this year, such as Apax Partners, which ditched a planned flotation of Tommy Hilfiger, the fashion brand, and 3i, which pulled a €900m (£710m)...
...“Sales are going well and they are increasing every year - it is not just a fashion wave,” Tawfik Mathlouthi, founder of Mecca-Cola, says....
...Private equity group Blackstone is reported to be eyeing the owner of the Mecca bingo and the Hard Rock Cafe chain....
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