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Business
A letter from London on the temperature of the UK’s post-Brexit creative industries. Plus: news reports and Q&As from Hong Kong to the US.
Let’s talk shop
The future of retail has never seemed so uncertain – so who is staging a successful fightback and what have they learnt along the way?
A 12-point plan for making department stores worth visiting again
Department stores have been around for 150 years but their standing has slipped of late. Yet, as the best of their kind still show us, it’s a versatile format that can deliver the goods.
Business
Business big-hitters, how Austria’s retail landscape is evolving and selling tea to coffee lovers in Italy.
Well kitted out
We visit the shops that are getting us moving, from skiing to surfing – all while looking our very best in athletic wear.
Talking threads
We brought together a fashion designer, a PR guru and a menswear buyer to discuss the fashion industry's direction and challenges, from sustainability to the fate of runway shows and department stores.
Fashion
A Stockholm sportswear emporium, a new Milan flagship for Tod’s and pulling on Portuguese socks.
Talking shop
From Tokyo's Isetan to Bogotá's design studios, the world's most forward-thinking retailers are proving that bricks-and-mortar shopping remains indispensable — for neighbourhoods, culture and commerce alike.
Texans in town
Dallas’s department-store stalwart Neiman Marcus and leading fashion boutique Forty Five Ten have rolled into the Big Apple with huge new spaces. It’s a bold move when bricks-and-mortar openings are a risk.
Little treasures
We're having children later in life, which hopefully means our bank balances are more handsome. The outcome: a lot of money to spend on our kids.
