De Bijenkorf news and archive

This fashion week in pictures

Bella Hadid was of course everywhere this Paris Fashion Week from the now viral Coperni spray paint video to Victoria Beckham’s Paris debut, to Sacai to Thom Brown to Isabel Marant, no catwalk presentation was complete it seemed without an appearance of the 25-year old American (super) model. But there are more images that remain imprinted on...

Fashion |Interview Featured

Bijenkorf buying director talks shift from loungewear to more fashionable pieces

De Bijenkorf, the biggest high-end retailer in the Netherlands and a subsidiary of Selfridges Group, is looking at the SS22 buying season with optimism. Not least due to its growing online business, which the company has in recent years expanded to Belgium, France, Germany and Austria. Buying director Ninke Gijzel oversees the buying for the...

Culture

'In the making': an exhibition exploring fashion behind the windows of De Bijenkorf

‘After an eventful year, spring inspires us with an appetite for something new. Something beautiful, something special that is lovingly crafted.’ Under that philosophy, De Bijenkorf presents the window exhibition ‘In the making’ from March 9 to June 9, 2021, according to a press release. De Bijenkorf is a chain of high-end department stores in...

Retail

Xupes partners with de Bijenkorf for pop-up

British-based pre-owned luxury e-tailer, Xupes, which specialise in vintage handbags, timepieces and unique luxury jewellery, is teaming up with Dutch high-end department store, de Bijenkorf to open their first pop-up. De Bijenkorf, owned by Weston family, which also owns Britain’s Selfridges, Canada’s Holt Renfrew and Ireland’s Brown Thomas,...

Fashion |REPORT Featured

Alexa Chung goes for Bingo at her second collection drop

London - For the launch of her second collection drop, entitled ‘Prom Gone Wrong’, fashion designer and style icon Alexa Chung organized a bingo-event at luxury department store de Bijenkorf, in Amsterdam, Thursday evening. “This is great, forget designing clothes. I think I missed my calling,” she exclaims, while calling out bingo numbers and...

Retail |INTERVIEW Featured

John Lewis steps into Europe with ‘capsule’ shop-in-shops in de Bijenkorf

John Lewis has finally landed in Europe - albeit in a slightly more edited and 'capsule' format. The British department store group has opened its first shop-in-shops with its debut European partner, de Bijenkorf in Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Through its exclusive partnership with the premium department store group, John...

Fashion Featured

Top 10 Fashion and Retail Trends for 2016

Transparent skirts, digital fitting rooms and Whatsapp becoming the newest social medium for sharing fashion advice: FashionUnited lists the top ten fashion and retail trends for 2016. #1 Slow Fashion Raf Simons departure from Dior in October sparked a ferocious debate within the industry surrounding the increasing fast pace the fashion world...

RetailFeatured

Liberty aims for overseas expansion prior to stock flotation

London - Before floating on the London Stock Exchange in 2018, London department store Liberty plans on spreading its wings into international markets overseas once more. The department store is set to launch its home-label merchandise in department stores in the US, Italy and the Netherlands in order to increase the brand's presence. It will...

Retail |UPDATE INTERVIEW Featured

'Ted Baker goes Dutch' ahead of Amsterdam store opening

The address of Ted Baker’s first store in Amsterdam has been confirmed by retail property company Vastned. Located on the bustling shopping street of the Leidsestraat, the retail unit at 64-66 is the ‘ideal location’ for the label debut flagship store in the Netherlands. Vastned is currently renovating the property and restoring the building’s...

People

Selfridges taps Chris May for new role

British department store group Selfridges has tapped Chris May as its first group business development director. May, who is the former business development director at Chanel, is set to take on his new role at Selfridges on December 1, when he will be reporting to Paul Kelly, group managing director. In his new role, May will offer support to...

Design

Topshop to open first standalone store in Amsterdam this fall

High-street fashion retailer Topshop is set to open its first storein Amsterdam, the Netherlands this October. The store will open its doors in the busy shopping street of de Kalverstraat, at the former location of bookstore chain de Slegte. The building offers 1400 square meters of retail space spread across 3 levels, with womenswear to occupy...

Design

Topshop to open first store in The Netherlands

High-street fashion retailer Topshop is gearing up to open its first stand alone store in The Netherlands. During the launch of Kate Moss's comeback collection for Topshop at the high street retailer's flagship store on Oxford Street, in London, news broke that the fashion retailer is set to open its debut store in Amsterdam this fall. Topshop...