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Retail

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2015

Autumn brings a bumper crop of store openings to NYC, including several European luxury brand debuts, a cereal bar/sneaker store and a clutch of quintessentially New York, industrially styled eateries. The pick of visual inspiration comes via cult US artists Shepard Fairey and Mike Kelley.

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1 Oct 2015
BY: Zainab Akande & Katie Baron
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