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Fashion

The Rise of the C-Store

Brands are re-appraising the convenience store sector, viewing this once low-key retail channel as a valuable, authentic backdrop for launches, brand takeovers and promotions.

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Fashion

SoundCloud merchandise amps up music as a healer

SoundCloud is launching a fashion collection with emerging designers at GRVTY, an independent broadcast company.

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Retail

Biked books

Austria – Lobu is a new delivery service that aims to support the high street by connecting consumers to local book stores.

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Fashion

Leading ladies: Gareth Pugh show celebrates warrior women

London – Gareth Pugh Studio celebrated its 10th anniversary with a mediaeval take on neo-feminism at London Fashion Week.

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Marketing & Branding

Our/Vodka

Let’s be clear about one thing. Our/Vodka is not a small, family-owned start-up. It has one of the biggest drinks names in the world behind it, Pernod Ricard. But that does not mean that it can’t embrace the spirit of localism that has swept the globe in recent years.

Bikini Berlin
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Retail

Mall rats: Berlin’s new concept-driven shopping centre

Berlin – Bikini Berlin gets its name from the original 1950s design of the building, a concrete building with an open-side storey that made it look like the bare midriff of a bikini-clad woman. Now the mixed-purpose building has been renovated as a new concept mall, with locality and innovation at its core.

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Fashion

Retail analysis: Opening Ceremony's pop-up retail village at New York Fashion…

Opening Ceremony hosts a pop-up in shipping containers

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Marketing & Branding

Local tipple: Pernod Ricard unveils Our/Berlin

Berlin – Pernod Ricard is tapping into local cool by opening a boutique distillery and launching a vodka in Berlin.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Train of events: Sound Tracks hits East London Line

London – Independent art and music festival Sound Tracks will bring some Conviviality Culture to the East London Line tomorrow (11 May).