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20 Jul

Third Street Promenade in Southern California Works to Get

On the planet of retail, the mantra for achievement is location, location, location. But that formula hasn’t been working too well for the Third Street Promenade, the breezy seaside pedestrian shopping center in affluent Santa Monica, California, where a modest home sells for $1.6 million and the common annual household income is $158,000. Over the past few years, the three-block-long walkway that exploded with shoppers and tourists when it was redeveloped in 1989 has gone from boom to bust after a series of events altered retail all over the place. Now the issue is easy methods to fix it. The promenade’s decline began around 2005 to 2007 when it seemed your entire shopping community discovered e-commerce and Amazon trucks became a force of...
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31 May

From California Cool to Latest York Nuanced, Esprit Rebuilds

Within the pantheon of fashion brands, Esprit 20 years ago dropped within the rankings through management changes, reorganizations, product revamps, a withdrawal from the U.S., and a glance that in America, no less than, lost relevance. Now there’s one other reinvention underway, and it’s as sweeping as ever. Debt has been worn out, enabling the corporate to speculate in upgrading information technology infrastructure and capabilities, retailing, and constructing a Latest York headquarters. Flagships on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood, Vancouver, Miami and Los Angeles are planned, marking a return to retailing in North America after 15 years. Stores can be rigged with omnichannel capabilities that utilize artificial intelligence, digital technology and real-time data to support operations and enrich the shopping experience....
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12 May

Massimo Alba, Garrett Leight California Optical Launch Eyewear Collaboration 

FIRST SUN: Massimo Alba has partnered with Garrett Leight California Optical, or GLCO, for its first eyewear collaboration ever. In sync with the understated luxury and casual elegance of the independent fashion brand launched by the namesake designer in 2006, the capsule collection hinges on a single, sober style crafted in acetate and defined by a double bridge. Inspired by a classic Seventies frame owned by Alba himself, the sunglass design is obtainable within the three colorways Brera, Sole and Luce, indicating shades in black, green and burnt red, respectively. An optical version will even be available exclusively at GLCO’s units. The Massimo Alba x GLCO eyewear capsule collection. Courtesy of Massimo Alba Every bit is embellished with a small golden clover engraved on the temple, along...
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5 Jan

California Becomes the First State to Ban Fur Sales

Just days before the top of 2022, a wealthy display of sable, chinchilla, mink, fox and other furs were arrange inside a pop-up store where the posh items were selling for 75 percent off. The retail outpost contained in the high-end Beverly Center, a big shopping complex adjoining to Beverly Hills, was the last hurrah for Maximilian Furs’ business in California. It was attempting to sell as much of its merchandise as possible before a statewide fur ban went into effect on Jan. 1 after being approved by the California Legislature in 2019. “This has totally killed our business here,” said Andy Nicolaou, vp and director of services for Maximilian, who was at the shop. “It will not be fair to the...
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