Week in Review | Warby Parker Opens Offline, Uniqlo’s Evolutionary Approach, Want Les Essentiels de la Vie
Warby Parker Flagship, Soho, New York | Source: Warby ParkerBoF editor-in-chief Imran Amed recaps the week in the business of fashion.
Warby Parker Flagship, Soho, New York | Source: Warby ParkerRetail Recon | Inside Warby Parker’s First Offline Flagship
Warby Parker Flagship, Soho, New York | Source: Warby ParkerAfter experimenting with a series of offline “showrooms,” trendy online eyewear company Warby Parker has launched it’s first physical flagship, complete with sensors that replicate online analytics, in New York’s Soho. BoF investigates.
Week in Review | Sarah Rutson-Pang, Introducing Alexander Lewis, Offline opportunities, BoF celebrates in Florence
Week in Review June 18 - 22Sarah Rutson-Pang (The Creative Class) “With her striking looks and impeccable taste, it’s no surprise that Sarah Rutson-Pang is a permanent fixture in the front rows of Paris and Milan… As the fashion director of the highly influential Hong Kong-based luxury department store Lane Crawford, Rutson-Pang has the important — and sometimes difficult — job of educating and enticing the world’s largest group of luxury
Online Fashion Retailers Tap Offline Opportunities
LONDON, United Kingdom — Over the course of the last decade, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, from Neiman Marcus to Macy’s, have seized the digital opportunity and built impressive online businesses, with web sales of apparel and accessories currently growing faster than any other e-commerce product category and expected to reach $40.9 billion in 2012, up from $34.16 billion in 2011, in the US alone, according to eMarketer.
