The Future Laboratory

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Dystopian department store

New York – Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard is addressing the triviality of consumerism in a large-scale exhibition coinciding with New York Fashion Week.

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Beauty

All that glitters

New York – Renowned make-up artist Pat McGrath has released Gold 001, part of her forthcoming experimental beauty line.

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Fashion

Retail Analysis: Cult brand lululemon arrives in London

Canadian sportswear brand lululemon has opened it first European ‘community’ store, in Covent Garden.

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Marketing & Branding

Stamped Goods

Designers are giving heritage a modern twist by reviving symbolic logos and embracing subtle cult influences to inform unexpected identities in food and drink packaging.

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Retail

BeautyMart

It’s become a well-trodden path in fashion retail now — hiring a big-name consumer magazine editor to create magazine-style content to drive traffic and customers to your site. Concept stores presenting a variety of high-end and low-end curated products have also become prevalent. Both have been successful because they appeal to the way we shop.…