Design
Retail
Report
Shopping heaven— Tokyo
Preface
Tokyo’s Ginza district is already one of Japan’s top spots for department stores and upmarket shopping. Now it has two very different new additions.
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01Michael Costiff’s World Archive
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02Cupboards designed by Michael Samuels double as fitting rooms
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03Louis Vuitton section on the third floor
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04T-shirt vending machine
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05Over 100 million UTs have been sold since 2003
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06Teruaki Matsumoto, store manager of the new Uniqlo in Ginza
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07UU collaboration
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0811th floor with view over Ginza
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