Retail Directory

Today’s shopping superpowers know how to look good. Their retail temples, dressed up by master architects, designers and artists, offer more to worship than just their wares. Here, we bring you a global edit of the finest new store openings for your online browsing pleasure

Fashion / 6 Sep 2018

10 Corso Como, Milan’s iconic concept store, opens in New York

The historic South Street Seaport district in New York City has not exactly been known for its high fashion sense, but the arrival of the iconic retail destination 10 Corso Como is about to change all that. The first (and...

Fashion / 4 Sep 2018

Matchesfashion’s experiential five-storey townhouse opens in London’s Mayfair

The rise of e-commerce has made retail therapy as private a gratification as other digital distractions. It is also tearing into the foundations of traditional bricks-and-mortar stores, with household names permanently shuttering. But something interesting is happening in the world...

Fashion / 30 Jul 2018

Martial arts: Gentle Monster opens a kung fu-fighting London boutique

Every three minutes on the ground floor of a boutique on Argyll Street in Central London, a large gong sounds. The sound of its tremors reverberate around the space, causing the arms of mop-haired and pinecone-like warrior aliens to jolt...

Watches & Jewellery / 17 Jul 2018

Lecoadic Scotto brings French finesse to Boucheron’s Moscow boutique

In 1897, four years after it had set up shop in a Hôtel Particulier on a corner of the Place Vendôme, Parisian jewellery maison Boucheron opened its first boutique abroad in Moscow. The store – which catered to the cravings of...

Fashion / 12 Jul 2018

Roberto Cavalli brings Tuscan tones to its new Berlin flagship

Paul Surridge took the creative helm of Roberto Cavalli in May 2017, and since his appointment at the Florence-founded label, the designer has worked to reinforce the ostentatious brand’s Tuscan heritage. Take its new packaging, which has been updated with the name...

Fashion / 4 Jul 2018

Delvaux unveils museum-meets-store Brussels flagship

Leather goods sit alongside works of art at Delvaux’s new flagship store, Le 27, on Brussels’ Boulevard de Waterloo. Housed inside a grand townhouse, the store functions not only as a showcase for the Belgian leather brand’s collections, but also...

Watches & Jewellery / 1 Jul 2018

Rundell Associates gives Harrods’ fine watch room a majestic marble makeover

In April, Harrods unveiled Martin Brudnizki Design Studio’s refurbishment of its wine rooms, and last month, it opened the doors of its colour-coded toy department revamped by Farshid Moussavi. Now, as its interior design overhaul progresses, the London department store has...

Fashion / 19 Jun 2018

Stella McCartney gets green-fingered with sustainable Old Bond Street flagship

When Stella McCartney began design work on her eponymous label’s vast new flagship store at 23 Old Bond Street, it was clear from the outset that this store’s interpretation of luxury would be a little different to its neighbours. Where other...

Fashion / 25 May 2018

Roberto Baciocchi’s sumptuous redesign of Mytheresa’s Munich flagship

Despite covering 1200 sq m, there’s something snug and comforting about luxury retailer Mytheresa’s newly redesigned boutique in Munich. In fact, a sense of feeling ‘at home’ was central to Roberto Baciocchi, founder of Baciocchi Associates, complete renovation of the three-floor...

Fashion / 30 Apr 2018

David Chipperfield designs SSENSE’s first flagship store

SSENSE MONTRÉAL is a flagship boutique of firsts. Not only is the five-storey 13,000 sq ft space the first brick-and-mortar store of the avant-garde retail platform – founded in 2003 by brothers Rami, Bassel and Firas Atallah – it is also...

Fashion / 26 Apr 2018

Maison Alaïa opens its first London flagship

‘Azzedine Alaïa never wanted to have one interior designer and one architect as he wanted to design his world and he did not understand why one would. He liked to work with his friends – Pierre Paulin, Marc Newson, Konstantin...

Watches & Jewellery / 23 Mar 2018

Patricia Urquiola puts her tastemaker’s stamp on Panerai’s new London outpost

The opening of Officine Panerai’s brand-new boutique in London’s New Bond Street, presents the perfect moment to look back on the results of the brand’s fruitful interior design collaboration with Patricia Urquiola. Having first breathed new life into the Paris...