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5 Jul

Holzweiler’s China Long March Kick Starts with Three Openings

Holzweiler’s China Long March Kick Starts with Three Openings
LONDON – Holzweiler, the Oslo-based label, is preparing to expand in China a 12 months after taking investment from Sequoia China. Within the second half, the brand is about to open 4 stores worldwide with more planned for next 12 months across the Asia-Pacific region. Three stores shall be in China, a market that has seen a rebound in luxury spending post-pandemic. The primary opening shall be in Chengdu’s upscale, luxury-filled shopping complex Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li, where Louis Vuitton opened its first restaurant within the country. The Chengdu store will open on Thursday and shall be the brand’s ninth location, and first retail outpost outside of Scandinavia. In September, additional stores will open in Xintiandi in Shanghai, and Beijing’s Sanlutun Taikoo Li, where...
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20 Nov

Mary Dillon Starts With Momentum at Foot Locker

Mary Dillon Starts With Momentum at Foot Locker
Possibly blush and basketball shoes aren’t so different in spite of everything.  Mary Dillon is perhaps proving as much at Inc.  The architect behind much of Ulta Beauty’s success is settling into her recent gig as president and chief executive officer of the sneaker mainstay and is coming in with some momentum. She’s also not the just one moving right into a recent corner office within the sneaker world, where Bjørn Gulden has been tapped as the subsequent CEO of Adidas and Arne Freundt has taken up the post of CEO for Puma.  In Dillon’s first quarterly report back to Wall Street since taking the helm in September, Foot Locker logged better-than-expected adjusted earnings and boosted its outlook for the yr — at...
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28 Aug

Why Dutch Designer Sabine Marcelis Starts Her Day With

Why Dutch Designer Sabine Marcelis Starts Her Day With
"The whole lot you absorb in life by some means stays in your head," says Sabine Marcelis, an artist based in Rotterdam within the Netherlands. Marcelis can still remember the way in which sunlight struck the mountaintops and the moon would shine upon the ocean when she was growing up in Latest Zealand. It's no coincidence that her work today explores light interactions through installation, sculpture, and even product design: translucent pastel tables that appear to glow and white orb lighting fixtures for IKEA that recall the moon. "Have fun your individual uniqueness," says Marcelis, a lesson she has passed along to the five young artists that comprise the Women Bauhaus Collective, formed by skin-care brand La Prairie. "Because ultimately, that...
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