Mall Operator Hammerson Launches €700 Million
Perina Drummond’s story of founding her all-Indigenous and –Torres Strait Islander modeling agency, Jira, starts in an iconic Australian setting: a Melbourne tram. “I met my first model, Cassie, on one in Brunswick. It was weird,” she laughs, thinking back to cold approaching model Cassie Puruntatameri on her way back home from Queen Victoria Market, “but it was such a good start to the agency.”
Amazon trials real-world fashion boutique
Bright red lacy dresses, cosy coats and ripped jeans fill a chic central London boutique decorated with neon signage and stripped wood floors. Shoppers bustle and admire the clothes – but they are not in a hip designer shop; they are in Amazon’s first pop-up fashion store in Europe.
As People Move Out of Big Cities Fashion Retail
When Hillary France, the founder of the emerging brand trade show Brand Assembly, moved upstate from New York City to the artistic riverside community of Hudson, she fell in love with the area's small-town feel and sense of community.
Potentially some of the highest paid people Beauty Heroes
This is potentially one of the most significant dispersions of income, wealth and economic opportunity and economic activity in modern history. I really can't emphasize it enough," says "retail prophet" Doug Stephens, comparing the current moment to the suburban migration of the 1950s
For Neighborhood Goods the innovative marketplace
"The first location we launched is a suburban market; we went there because there was a huge amount of people pouring into that market and they're underserved in terms of these experiences, so that's always been our thinking," co-founder and CEO Matt Alexander says.
These Stores That Opened Amid the Pandemic Can Hint at
With closures and bankruptcies dominating headlines over the past year, the future of brick-and-mortar fashion retail may seem grim. But in the face of negative generalizations about the pandemic killing stores and eliminating demand for new clothes — and during what some might have considered
