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Cashmere cardigan
Leather gloves
Trolley tote
The Forecast 2025
December/January 2024/2025 - Issue 179
Konfekt - Winter 2024
Greece: The Monocle Handbook
Waxed-cotton jacket
Reversible gilet
Air jacket
Silk tie
Large weekender bag
Six-pocket tote
FreeWalker GL suitcase
Small tablet tray
Portobello small bowl
Salt mill
Pepper mill
Small A6 hardcover pocket notepad
Large B5 hardcover linen notebook
Drehgriffel pen
Pencil case
Candle One: Hinoki
Candle Four: Yoyogi
Calavria roll-on fragrance
Welsh Lavender foot cream
Porter
Comme des Garçons
Leuchtturm1917
Japan Collection
Darumas
London
Zürich
Tokyo
Hong Kong International Airport
Gert Voorjans is known for designing Dries Van Noten’s retail spaces but most of his energy is devoted to domestic projects. He takes us on a tour of his showroom-cum-office.
Dominique Bonnafoux, senior strategist at retail consultants Fitch, explains why our favourite shops can represent more than places to buy goods.
Freitag was launched in Zürich in 1993 by brothers Daniel and Markus Freitag and is known around the world for the messenger bags, backpacks and accessories that they make mostly from recycled truck tarps. The company has recently been working with trucking companies to create a more sustainable tarp, which can be fully broken down or repurposed after use, first on the highway and later as a bag.
In the early years of the internet and social media, many assumed that e-commerce would eclipse traditional retail. But today many brands are successfully shifting their focus away from the screen and back to the high street. We hear from four businesses invested in that change, from pop-up-space rental platform Appear Here and clothing labels Kotn and L’Estrange to Singapore’s We The People, a shop bringing crowdfunded projects to bricks-and-mortar.
Can Arket reimagine the way we shop? We take a tour of the H&M Group’s latest all-encompassing retail experience and consider how to revive the department-store model. Plus: we ask whether cities have been too quick to embrace the cycle scheme and extol the virtues of the humble carpark.
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