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Retail Joins the Family

Retail Joins the Family Retail Joins the Family As new, fluid definitions of the modern family emerge, retailers and brands are working hard to respond with both products and services that provide connection and support. The retailer’s goal is to become a dependable friend – thoroughly integrated into everyday family life.

Insight & Innovation

LDF 2018: Brand-Ready Spatial Inspo LDF 2018: Brand-Ready Spatial Inspo Spaces and installations at London Design Festival offer creative suggestions for future retail – from emotion-controlled experiences, to community-focused social hubs. Here's our pick of the best.

London Design Festival 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, Oct 2018 October in New York is brimming with fresh department store concepts and community-focused retail hubs for Gen Zers, along with a luxury lifestyle pivot for the Seaport District. Elsewhere, hotels are installing art exhibits, while museums take a stand on hot-button issues. Stylus rounds up the month's essential edit.

Retail City Guides

Retail Joins the Family

Retail Joins the Family Retail Joins the Family As new, fluid definitions of the modern family emerge, retailers and brands are working hard to respond with both products and services that provide connection and support. The retailer’s goal is to become a dependable friend – thoroughly integrated into everyday family life.

Insight & Innovation

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.

Retail Joins the Family

Retail Joins the Family Retail Joins the Family As new, fluid definitions of the modern family emerge, retailers and brands are working hard to respond with both products and services that provide connection and support. The retailer’s goal is to become a dependable friend – thoroughly integrated into everyday family life.

Insight & Innovation

LDF 2018: Brand-Ready Spatial Inspo LDF 2018: Brand-Ready Spatial Inspo Spaces and installations at London Design Festival offer creative suggestions for future retail – from emotion-controlled experiences, to community-focused social hubs. Here's our pick of the best.

London Design Festival 2018

Must-See Retail Spaces: Top 20

Must-See Retail Spaces: Top 20 Must-See Retail Spaces: Top 20 Stylus showcases the most impressive physical stores to open this year, representing the very best in contemporary retail design. From beautiful concepts to exceptional experiences, we highlight 20 great spaces from around the world.

Retail Joins the Family

Retail Joins the Family Retail Joins the Family As new, fluid definitions of the modern family emerge, retailers and brands are working hard to respond with both products and services that provide connection and support. The retailer’s goal is to become a dependable friend – thoroughly integrated into everyday family life.

Insight & Innovation

Tech. 2018: Retail’s Digital Transformation

Tech. 2018: Retail’s Digital Transformation Tech. 2018: Retail's Transformation Retail Week’s annual Tech. conference is a two-day show dedicated to transformative digital retailing, now in its second year. It unites global brands, investors and technology suppliers, including a mix of start-ups. Discussion this year was dominated by voice commerce, AI, robots, and how to structure vast amounts of data.

Digital Commerce

Luxury Youth: Selling to Gen Z

Luxury Youth: Selling to Gen Z Luxury Youth: Selling to Gen Z Are luxury brands doing enough to prepare for Gen Z shoppers? These consumers, currently aged nine to 23, could redefine what luxury means. We report on how industry leaders are planning for the future.

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, October 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, Oct 2018 October in New York is brimming with fresh department store concepts and community-focused retail hubs for Gen Zers, along with a luxury lifestyle pivot for the Seaport District. Elsewhere, hotels are installing art exhibits, while museums take a stand on hot-button issues. Stylus rounds up the month's essential edit.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: London, October 2018

Retail City Guide: London, October 2018 Retail City Guide: London, Oct 2018 October arrives with an influx of apartment-style fashion formats, a Heatherwick-designed shopping street called Coal Drops Yard, and new Soho streetwear stores. There's also a slew of exciting art exhibitions including the Turner Prize 2018, the annual Frieze Art Fair, and a Barbican show celebrating creative artist relationships.

Retail City Guides

Retail City Guide: NYC, September 2018

Retail City Guide: NYC, September 2018 Retail City Guide: NYC, Sept 18 The month of September in New York sees the arrival of niche multi-brand retailers and international names offering affordable basics, plus an array of new restaurants that are about more than just dining. Meanwhile, museums tilt towards retail, with exhibits that merge art and commerce. Stylus selects the highlights.

Retail City Guides

LDF 2018: Brand-Ready Spatial Inspo LDF 2018: Brand-Ready Spatial Inspo Spaces and installations at London Design Festival offer creative suggestions for future retail – from emotion-controlled experiences, to community-focused social hubs. Here's our pick of the best.

London Design Festival 2018

Tech. 2018: Retail’s Digital Transformation

Tech. 2018: Retail’s Digital Transformation Tech. 2018: Retail's Transformation Retail Week’s annual Tech. conference is a two-day show dedicated to transformative digital retailing, now in its second year. It unites global brands, investors and technology suppliers, including a mix of start-ups. Discussion this year was dominated by voice commerce, AI, robots, and how to structure vast amounts of data.

Digital Commerce

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 Storytelling: Ntwrk App Taps Episodic Live Content

Retail Storytelling: Ntwrk App Taps Episodic Live Content Ntwrk: Live TV Meets E-Commerce Retailers are transforming into media entities and turning to broadcasting to reach those four out of five millennials who consider video content when researching a purchase decision (SMT, 2017). Ntwrk – dubbed “QVC meets Comic-Con” – is a new player that wants to redefine commerce’s modus operandi by melding TV, retail and the gloriously nerdy enthusiasm of convention culture.

Digital Commerce

Dress for Success: Affordable Interview Dressing

Dress for Success: Affordable Interview Dressing Dress for Success Dressing appropriately for a job interview is a key concern for jobseekers – as well as a financial burden. Charities in Britain and the US are empowering job hunters by providing low-cost and rentable clothing and accessories for interviews.

Consumer Lifestyle

Consumer Attitudes

Debenhams Launches New Omnichannel Beauty Initiatives

Debenhams Launches New Omnichannel Beauty Initiatives Debenhams’ New Beauty Initiatives British department store chain Debenhams has launched a beauty initiative designed to improve its appeal among Gen Z and millennial consumers. Taking an omnichannel approach, it fuses online and offline channels via a loyalty-based digital social platform and two new discovery-led store concepts.

The Maiyet Collective’s Concept Store: Reshaping Ethical Lux

The Maiyet Collective’s Concept Store: Reshaping Ethical Lux This Store Reshapes Ethical Luxe Luxury ethical fashion label Maiyet is behind The Maiyet Collective, a new concept store opening in October inside a London members’ club dedicated to positive social impact. It will feature talks, activities and over 50 like-minded brands – just not its own.

FabFitFun: Branded Live Broadcast

FabFitFun: Branded Live Broadcast FabFitFun: Branded Live Broadcast The fine lines between selling, guidance and entertainment are being blurred, with brands now behaving like media entities to stand out and provide a more engaging route to consumption. Tapping into this trend, US beauty, wellness and athleisure subscription box FabFitFun (FFF) has launched a shoppable live show on Facebook to generate more digital interaction.

Digital Commerce

Amazon Uses Consumer Data as a Selling Point in Latest Store

Amazon Uses Consumer Data as a Selling Point in Latest Store Amazon Trades On What’s Trending An insatiable, social-media-fuelled appetite for everything new is driving the value of store concepts that resemble micro exhibitions of hyper-curated edits. Along these lines, Amazon is re-entering the physical retail space with a 370 sq m Manhattan store that makes high online ratings a key selling point – keeping consumers ‘in the know’.

Is a Subscription the Answer to Sustainable Toy Retail?

Is a Subscription the Answer to Sustainable Toy Retail? On-Demand Toy Library: Whirli, UK Many millennials expect sustainable practices from brands – arguably even more so when purchasing goods for their kids. Targeting an eco-conscious generation of parents, a soon-to-be launched on-demand toy library leverages the power of sharing through an easy-to-use website.

Digital Commerce

Dirty Lemon Lets You Pay Later by Text

Dirty Lemon Lets You Pay Later by Text Dirty Lemon: Text to Pay Trendy health-focused New York beverage brand Dirty Lemon has opened a checkout-free store in Manhattan's Tribeca called Drug Store, where it's trusting consumers to grab a drink, leave, then pay later by text at their convenience.

US Supermarket Taps AI to Better Serve the Visually Impaired

US Supermarket Taps AI to Better Serve the Visually Impaired In-Store AI for Visually Impaired American supermarket chain Wegmans has partnered with Aira (artificial intelligence remote assistance) to provide blind and visually impaired customers with a substantially improved shopping experience.

Insight & Innovation

Coty & Boots: AI Boost for Online Fragrance Sales

Coty & Boots: AI Boost for Online Fragrance Sales AI Boost for Online Fragrance Sales Consumers can't smell perfumes online. But an AI-powered fragrance finder, created by beauty giant Coty for UK retailer Boots, is finding a way around the problem – and reporting very promising results.

Brand Experience

Select Online, Try In-Store: Personalised Fitting Rooms

Select Online, Try In-Store: Personalised Fitting Rooms Personalised Fitting Rooms We highlight a slew of fresh retail concepts that merge physical and digital commerce in highly personalised ways, offering consumers speedy product try-on and tailored recommendations.

Shoppable Video: Making it Easier for Retailers

Shoppable Video: Making it Easier for Retailers Shoppable Video 2.0 Making sense of shoppable video is set to become significantly easier, thanks to a digital dashboard by Smartzer that will consolidate all social media metrics in one place. Here’s the lowdown.

Digital Commerce

10 Corso Como Anchors NY’s Next-Gen Urban Mall

10 Corso Como Anchors NY’s Next-Gen Urban Mall 10 Corso Como Lands in NY Milanese store 10 Corso Como, which famously blends art, fashion and food, has opened its first US shop in New York’s South Street Seaport – now rebranded as the Seaport District. The location is significant, with the former tourist spot vying to become a next-gen urban mall.

Asia: Malls Repurpose Limbo Spaces as Family Activity Parks

Asia: Malls Repurpose Limbo Spaces as Family Activity Parks Playscapes: Malls Add Family Parks As experience-hungry millennials come of age and start having children themselves, shopping centres are evolving ever more thoroughly into leisure spots for families. Two in Asia have repurposed under-utilised space as in-store amusement parks – playfully combining entertainment and education.

How the Resales Boom Is Evolving

How the Resales Boom Is Evolving Resales Retail: What to Watch Growth in the second-hand retail sector is faster than ever, from high-end to mass market. Here’s our update on a sector full of innovation.

Levi’s Customisation Pop-Up Predicts Denim Retail’s Future

Levi’s Customisation Pop-Up Predicts Denim Retail’s Future Denim Retail’s Custom Future Levi’s is targeting custom-hungry customers at its 10-week, invite-only pop-up in Los Angeles. Shoppers use the brand’s FLX laser-printing system to design their dream jeans in minutes.

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