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Retail

Accessories Spaces: VM Trends, 2015

Smart brands are exploiting a global boom in luxury accessories sales with store designs and visual merchandising attuned to consumers' growing desire for deeper dialogue, entry-level affluence and new renditions of escapism. We track the details.

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17 Dec 2015
BY: Samantha Fox & Katie Baron
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