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Browsing Detroit

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Travel & Hospitality

Thought-starter: Can Detroit balance gentrification with community?

Hailed as the Comeback City, recent initiatives are not only rebuilding Detroit’s commercial potential, but also ensuring that the wider community is not left behind by gentrification.

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Fashion

The new fashion capitals

Gentrification, unaffordable house prices and immigration regulations are forcing emerging fashion designers to forgo New York, Paris and London. Instead, burgeoning creative communities across the globe are bringing more diverse voices to the industry.

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Retail

Sleep and shop

US – Furniture brand West Elm is opening a range of boutique hotels to enable consumers to experience its products before they buy.

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Marketing & Branding

Jacques Panis: Reviving Shinola

Jacques Panis, president of Shinola, explains how the watch and leather goods brand was brought back from near extinction.

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Marketing & Branding

Home-town hero: Detroit brand Shinola ventures overseas

London – Detroit luxury watch and crafted goods brand Shinola has opened its first store outside the US.

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Retail

Retail analysis: Shinola’s TriBeCa flagship store

Retail analysis: Shinola's TriBeCa flagship store

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North America

The best of 2010: the key food Insights of the year

The best of 2010: the key food Insights of the year

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Luxury

Detroit motor show

2010 might be remembered as the year the Detroit Motor Show finally started to go green. In traditional fashion some big cars were unveiled, from a special-edition Ford Mustang – endorsed by rapper Nelly – to the Cadillac XTS large luxury saloon, but the biggest headlines were made by the smaller and more eco-friendly vehicles. Ken Billes, one of…

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Luxury

Detroit motor show

After two of the ‘Big Three’ Detroit-based US carmakers went under in mid-2009, some industry watchers even wondered whether there would be another motor show in the Motor City. But both Chrysler and General Motors have now emerged from their respective enforced bankruptcies as, hopefully, leaner and sharper operations and Ford seems finally to…