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Next-Gen Pop-Ups

Next-Gen Pop-Ups Next-Gen Pop-Ups Pop-up shops are firmly established as a means of marketing and low-cost revenue for retailers and brands. But consumers are expecting more than quick-fix stores loaded with gimmicky photo-ops. We highlight the companies engaging consumers with bespoke sensory exhibits, commerce-free educative showrooms, and tech-fuelled luxury boutiques.

Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018 This August, New York's retail openings push aside midsummer malaise with shops that exude a holiday atmosphere, boutiques showcasing sophisticated footwear and clothing stores that promote sustainability. Meanwhile, Casper launches a spa with bookable nap nooks and MoMA steps up for summer with a trio of must-see exhibitions.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, August 2018

Retail City Guide: London, August 2018 Retail City Guide: London, Aug 2018 This August, a wave of fresh retail concepts attracts millennial in-store traffic with personalisation and experience-focused strategies, while Westfield London shopping mall welcomes the biggest Japanese marketplace in Europe. Meanwhile, exhibition highlights include a journey into the life of South African political icon Nelson Mandela.

Retail City Guides

Asian Beauty Now

Asian Beauty Now

Asian Beauty Now

As Western beauty brands look to East Asia for inspiration, we uncover the emerging product and engagement trends – as well as the changing consumer lifestyles and attitudes driving one of the most exciting markets on the planet. With takeaways for brands targeting growth in the territory, as well as those looking to adapt Asian beauty ideas for other regions, this trio of reports is your 360-degree guide.

Insight & Innovation

Retail’s New High

Retail’s New High

Retail’s New High

Historically a black-market product, cannabis is evolving into a legal and thriving industry. Stylus reports on this highly regulated market’s transition, highlighting discovery-focused e-ventures, digital tools bypassing bureaucratic challenges, and contemporary dispensaries with a social twist.

Sneakerheads Unboxed

Sneakerheads Unboxed

Sneakerheads Unboxed

Across three key reports, Sneakerheads Unboxed divulges how to decipher and monetise the lucrative yet complex world of sneaker culture – illuminating the new and emergent tribal behaviours, product design codes and engagement tactics needed to capitalise on the genre most successfully.

Next-Gen Pop-Ups

Next-Gen Pop-Ups Next-Gen Pop-Ups Pop-up shops are firmly established as a means of marketing and low-cost revenue for retailers and brands. But consumers are expecting more than quick-fix stores loaded with gimmicky photo-ops. We highlight the companies engaging consumers with bespoke sensory exhibits, commerce-free educative showrooms, and tech-fuelled luxury boutiques.

Soft Sell: The New Retail

Soft Sell: The New Retail Soft Sell: The New Retail Physical retail has to undergo a dramatic transformation to maintain its relevance in the digital age. Forward-thinking retailers are selling softly, emphasising the experience rather than pushing for the sale. Here’s how it can work.

Alcohol’s New Retail Frontiers

Alcohol’s New Retail Frontiers Alcohol’s New Retail Frontiers Smart alcohol brands are striving to satisfy consumers' thirst for knowledge and authentic experiences by becoming hosts, educators and collaborators. Including multisensory store playgrounds, hospitality concepts and mood-driven search tools, we highlight winning engagement strategies for alcohol retailers and beverage brands.

Alcohol’s New Retail Frontiers

Alcohol’s New Retail Frontiers Alcohol’s New Retail Frontiers Smart alcohol brands are striving to satisfy consumers' thirst for knowledge and authentic experiences by becoming hosts, educators and collaborators. Including multisensory store playgrounds, hospitality concepts and mood-driven search tools, we highlight winning engagement strategies for alcohol retailers and beverage brands.

Decoded Future, London: Creative Innovation Summit

Decoded Future, London: Creative Innovation Summit Decoded Future, London 2018 The first Decoded Future Summit – staged at London's Tobacco Dock on June 26 – brought Decoded and Stylus together for a groundbreaking event exploring innovation in lifestyle, fashion, luxury, beauty and wellness.

Digital Commerce

Voice Shopping: The Coming Wave

Voice Shopping: The Coming Wave Voice Shopping: The Coming Wave Voice shopping is set for explosive growth in the years ahead. Stylus reviews how it will change retail, with particular focus on US and Chinese innovation, and how retailers should best prepare.

Digital Commerce

Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, August 2018 This August, New York's retail openings push aside midsummer malaise with shops that exude a holiday atmosphere, boutiques showcasing sophisticated footwear and clothing stores that promote sustainability. Meanwhile, Casper launches a spa with bookable nap nooks and MoMA steps up for summer with a trio of must-see exhibitions.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, August 2018

Retail City Guide: London, August 2018 Retail City Guide: London, Aug 2018 This August, a wave of fresh retail concepts attracts millennial in-store traffic with personalisation and experience-focused strategies, while Westfield London shopping mall welcomes the biggest Japanese marketplace in Europe. Meanwhile, exhibition highlights include a journey into the life of South African political icon Nelson Mandela.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: NYC, July 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, July 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, July 2018 For July, our monthly round-up of New York's retail and hospitality scene spotlights summer-ready pop-up shops, furniture showrooms that exude home comforts, and adventure-centric additions to city parks. Exhibits focus on single-artist retrospectives, ranging from a celebration of the late photographer Bill Cunningham to a survey of Giacometti's distinctive sculptures.

Retail City Guides

Decoded Future, London: Creative Innovation Summit

Decoded Future, London: Creative Innovation Summit Decoded Future, London 2018 The first Decoded Future Summit – staged at London's Tobacco Dock on June 26 – brought Decoded and Stylus together for a groundbreaking event exploring innovation in lifestyle, fashion, luxury, beauty and wellness.

Digital Commerce

Retail Design Expo 2018: Slow Retail

Retail Design Expo 2018: Slow Retail Retail Design Expo '18: Slow Retail New retail and brand spaces are promoting a sense of wonder and exploration, drawing inspiration from exhibition design and showrooms. All this – and much more – was on the agenda at London’s Retail Design Expo (May 2-3). We sum up the highlights.

Milan 2018: Brand Experiences Milan 2018: Brand Experiences Milan Design Week has evolved over the years into an important adventure playground for brands. Design creativity and conceptual innovation overlap to thrilling effect. We highlight the projects that impressed most at this year’s event.

Architecture & Spaces

This Beauty Clinic Wants to Be the Boutique Gym for Skin

This Beauty Clinic Wants to Be the Boutique Gym for Skin The Membership-Led Skin Gym Repeat customers are the goal of every beauty clinic. New Zealand’s Skinsmiths bills itself as a regular ‘gym for your skin’, opening six stores in London in quick succession this year – and promoting annual membership packages at the heart of its engagement strategy.

Harth: Rental Furniture Platform Shaking up Luxury Retail

Harth: Rental Furniture Platform Shaking up Luxury Retail Rental Furniture: The New Luxury Spurred by a lack of resources and real estate, consumers are choosing to ditch home ownership in favour of subscription access to shared housing, communal offices, pooled transport and hired goods. Harth is a luxury rental service for designer homeware that’s shaking up retail to cater to transient, 21st-century lifestyles.

Eckhaus Latta Exhibition: The Future of Fashion Retail?

Eckhaus Latta Exhibition: The Future of Fashion Retail? Museums: Future Fashion Retail? US design house Eckhaus Latta is the latest fashion brand to embrace museum-style engagement, as its shoppable exhibition revives the offline retail experience.

Insight & Innovation

Social Media Taps Visual Search & AR Commerce

Social Media Taps Visual Search & AR Commerce Social Media 2018: Retail Update Western social media channels are learning from their Chinese counterparts, morphing into ecosystems combining search, payments, shopping and social activity. Snapchat and Facebook have both released in-app shopping features to target youth on the go, using engaging content as conversion tools.

Digital Commerce

This Mountain-Top Archive Pop-Up Draws Adventurous Spirits

This Mountain-Top Archive Pop-Up Draws Adventurous Spirits The North Face’s Remote Pop-Up American outerwear brand The North Face's latest pop-up store sat at an altitude of 2,100m in Val San Nicolò in the Italian Alps, and was reachable only by foot. Consumers had to complete a two-hour hike to get to the space, where they could view coveted one-off pieces.

Amazon’s New Feature Promises Stress-Free DIY

Amazon’s New Feature Promises Stress-Free DIY Amazon Part Finder Solves DIY Worry Worldwide, 37% of people enjoy constructing items for their home, but 21% fear starting a project over concern they'll be unable able to finish it (Ikea, 2017). Amazon's new Part Finder feature streamlines DIY projects by solving the snag of missing parts.

Consumer Lifestyle

Science & Technology

Will Festival Fever Alter the Future of Beauty Retail?

Will Festival Fever Alter the Future of Beauty Retail? Gen Z’s Beauty Festival Craze Beauty brands are seeking creative ways to engage with teen consumers in immersive settings, following the success of leading US festival BeautyCon – aimed at avid beauty fans and influencers.

Children & Youth

Petco Opens a Service-Led Wellbeing Store for Animals

Petco Opens a Service-Led Wellbeing Store for Animals Petco’s New Animal Wellbeing Store Service-led stores are thriving, so why not create one for pets? American retailer Petco recently opened Pet Coach, a one-stop shop for veterinary, day-care and training services that pampers animals with human-grade luxuries.

Casper’s Nap Spa Wins with Soft-Sell Approach

Casper’s Nap Spa Wins with Soft-Sell Approach Casper’s New Nap Spa Concept Customers go there to sleep, not to buy mattresses. Casper, a US mattress brand, has opened a nap spa concept titled The Dreamery, using soft-sell retail tactics to position the brand as a wellness ally for consumers.

Target’s Secret App: Digital Feedback Tool Informs R&D Teams

Target’s Secret App: Digital Feedback Tool Informs R&D Teams Studio Connect: Target’s Secret App Target’s exclusive, invite-only app is the retailer’s latest move to personalise its offer. The digital feedback tool is giving customers the chance to have their opinions heard, suggestions taken seriously, and ideas brought to life.

Digital Commerce

Does London’s Coal Drops Yard Redefine Mall Culture?

Does London’s Coal Drops Yard Redefine Mall Culture? Coal Drops Yard: The Modern Mall? London shopping development Coal Drops Yard, which opens in late October and is located just north of King’s Cross station, seeks to recalibrate what a modern mall can be. It’s an ambitious collective of 60 retailers combining artisanal and progressive brands with iconic names that aim to define the zeitgeist and apply new soft-sell retail strategies.

In-Store Customisation 2.0: Ecco 3D-Prints Bespoke Mid-Soles

In-Store Customisation 2.0: Ecco 3D-Prints Bespoke Mid-Soles High-Speed Shoe Personalisation Danish footwear brand Ecco's Innovation Lab is taking personalisation to new heights with its Quant-U project. Consumers can co-create a digital model of their feet in under 30 seconds and pick up personalised 3D-printed mid-soles just two hours later.

L'Oréal Announces Live-Streamed AR Beauty Assistants

L'Oréal Announces Live-Streamed AR Beauty Assistants L'Oréal Digitises Beauty Sessions Blurring the line between physical and digital retail is high on many retailers’ agendas. L’Oreal has announced a digital advice tool that plans to engage consumers seeking the convenience of shopping from a mobile device while also receiving a personalised experience.

Digital Commerce

Live Shopping Show Gravy Hypes Gen Y with Gamified Discounts

Live Shopping Show Gravy Hypes Gen Y with Gamified Discounts Addictive Live Shopping Game Show Inspired by old-school TV shopping channels and new-age live mobile game shows such as HQ, Gravy – the world's first live shopping mobile game show – turns buying online into addictive entertainment.

Digital Commerce

Does Harvey Nichols Know What Luxury Fashion Consumers Want?

Does Harvey Nichols Know What Luxury Fashion Consumers Want? Harvey Nichols’ Boutique Approach Department stores are facing a challenging time. To maintain its allure among other intriguing ventures, British retailer Harvey Nichols has refurbished its womenswear department to cater to modern luxury consumers.

Casino & L’Oréal Launch New Convenience Store

Casino & L’Oréal Launch New Convenience Store L’Oréal's Convenience Store Concept Convenience stores – and, most recently, drugstores – are the latest retail category to undergo a reinvention. We highlight an innovative concept that’s the result of an unusual partnership between France’s Casino Group and beauty giant L'Oréal: a new urban take on the convenience store.

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