11TEAMSPORTS FLAGSHIP STORE, BERLIN

Berlin

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11teamsports flagship store, Berlin

11teamsports, Flagship Store, Flagship Store Design, Retail Design Germany,

THE NORTH FACE FLAGSHIP STORE DESIGN, MILAN BY GREEN ROOM

Milan

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green room

green room retail

Continuing our on-going work with The North Face, we worked with the outdoor apparel and accessories brand on their global retail definition strategy. Our first task was to use this new retail strategy to redesign their Milan flagship store.
The Challenge

As part of our work with the brand on their global retail definition strategy, The North Face tasked Green Room with bringing this vision to life through creative retail design in their Milan flagship. The Milan store was to be the first store to benefit from the refreshed look and feel, and needed to celebrate the brand mission of “Never Stop Exploring”.

Green Room’s key objective was to use retail and consumer insight to deliver an engaging, interactive and unique retail concept driven by experience, ensuring that each customer leaves the store empowered to “Never Stop Exploring”.

The Insight

Forming partnerships with retail platforms that have already harnessed the people power of online communities is increasingly important. Cultivating a presence on the social scene is essential to remaining visible to shoppers, while the data that underpins these social exchanges is invaluable in targeting the most relevant consumers.

The Solution

The new generation of The North Face stores need to become a ‘base camp’ for weekend warriors and hard-core explorers to plan their next outdoors adventure. To do this, we wanted the Milan store to act deliver much more than an engaging look and feel.

By focusing on community, engagement, and digital integration, the new store concept in Milan encourages shoppers to delve deeper into the TNF brand, the explorer community, and the news Spring Summer 2014 collections.

By humanising the TNF athletes, creating community boards, integrating localised design and through hero product placement, the new strategy encourages The North Face customers to use retail as a community hub where they can engage with like-minded explorers.

Equally though, we wanted to create an engaging and inviting retail space that performed commercially and encouraged shoppers to navigate around the store, browse products, and make an informed purchasing choice.

We used in-store zoning principals, striking shop windows, category focal points, and interactive elements to deliver a retail strategy that has transformed The North Face’s Milan flagship. Wayfinding techniques were employed to guide shoppers around the space, including a striking rope installation on the stairwell to encourage customers to head upstairs.

TNF’s Milan flagship is the first iteration of their new global retail definition strategy. We are continuing our work with the brand to roll-out the strategy across the brands’ estate and retail touchpoints.

Eric Pansier, Vice President of The North Face, says:

"At a time where we believe elevating the in-store consumer experience is an absolute must do for brand differentiation and consumer loyalty, the work that Green Room has done in our Milan store is future defining for The North Face. It has crystallized in one place an improvement path for our entire fleet of mono-brand stores: stronger brand story-telling, clearer navigation, first steps towards community building and retail digitalization, highlight of key product stories, new hard goods approach and stronger dial-up of colours. A very important step forward for The North Face brand."

Hugues Yo, says:
"We engaged with Green Room to redefine our retail brand experience based upon four key pillars: to tell big stories, to create an immersive brand experience, integrate digital and introduce local connectivity. The interaction between internal teams and Green Room for the Milan project gave birth to an advanced outdoor retail concept opening a new meaning of point of sale expression for The North Face."

The North Face, Flagship Store Design, Milan, Green Room, Global Retail, Magazin North Face, Creative Retail Design,

ACNE FLAGSHIP STORE LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles

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Bozarthfornell architects

superfuture.

It's official, downtown Los Angeles is a hipster haven now that Acne have opened up shop there. It's the swedish fashion brand's second store stateside, and at approx. 5,000 sq.ft. [465 sqm.] It's also its biggest yet. Situated on the ground floor of the eastern columbia building, a beautiful art deco-style highrise built in 1930 by architect Claud Beelman, the store bears all the hallmarks of a flagship.

The spacious dimensions are seamlessly compatible with acne's new minimalist retail aesthetic of steel paneling and concrete flooring, concocted by longtime collaborator Bozarthfornell architects. The store configuration is as such that open spaces are alternated with more secluded sections, each presenting a different part of acne's men's and women's collection.

Because of the store's spacious set-up, the visual layering with the mesh metal plates and concrete and stone flooring works more magic here than at the brand's other stores. An added statement is a mushroom sculpture on a circular, mirrored pedestal by belgian artist Carsten Höller. and as if to anticipate downtown L.A.'s golden future as a happening hub of anything cool, elsewhere on the premises Il caffè has opened, a branch of creative director Jonny Johansson's fav coffeeshop back home. An opening dinner and party was held at the eastern columbia building, attended by some of L.A.'s creative movers and shakers and acne dignitaries from Stockholm. location: 855 south broadway [downtown].

Acne Stores, Acne L.a, Flagship Store Design, Best Flagship Stores, Magazine Flagship, Interior Industrial, Metal Perforat, Butaforie Magazine, Acne Products Display, Hipster Haven, Swedish Fashion Brand, Claud Beelman Architect, Carsten Höller, Bozarthfornell Architects

ALBERTA FERRETTI STORES DESIGN BY SYBARITES ARCHITECTS

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Sybarites Architects

Sybarites Architects

We needed to create something as beautiful and sophisticated as Alberta Ferretti's collections. We designed the stores with the visual merchandising at the forefront of our minds.

The key design features of the new flagship store in Los Angeles are the flexibility of the magnetic display system, the disciplined continuity of the palette and the skilful use of lighting to create an atmosphere that is as sensual, airy and as ethereal as the clothes

Sybarite's approach was to strip back the building to its essential form, creating an extremely simple backdrop to highlight the femininity and lightness of the clothes

Alberta Ferretti, Store Interior Design, Store Designers, Sybarites Architects, Sybarites Concept Store, Flagship Store Design, Design Magazine Alberta Ferretti

JOHN VARVATOS NEW FLAGSHIP STORE NEW YORK

New York

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cppluxury

John Varvatos opens new flagship store on Madison Avenue, New York NY

John Varvatos, Flagship Store Design, Amenajari Flagship Store, Design De Magazine, Retail Designers New York, John Varvatos Ny