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Lone Design Club launches shoppable window

London Design Club, the retail disrupter championing independent designers, has launched a shoppable window on South Molton Street in London as it looks to bridge the gap between the physical and digital with the use of QR codes. The “Phygital” store is the London Design Club’s latest innovation in retail in partnership with South Molton Street,...

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IKKS chief executive talks debut UK store

London’s South Molton Street, just off Oxford Street, is becoming an unofficial French quarter of fashion retailing, the area already boasts contemporary brands including Maje, Sandro, Gerard Darel, Claudie Pierrot, Comptoir des Cotonniers, and Zadig and Voltaire, and now there’s a new French label making its debut, IKKS, with the opening of its...

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Pinko pops up

Italian fashion label Pinko has opened a pop-up store on South Molton Street, London. The store, which will be open for four months, is the brand’s third stand-alone shop in London, and marks its first in Mayfair. South Molton Street is a pedestrian area known as the ‘Lanes of Mayfair’ and Pinko chose the area for its temporary store due to the...

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Chinese retailer Bosideng to launch in London

Leading Chinese clothing retailer Bosideng will launch its premium menswear brand in South Molton Street, London, in summer 2012. The multi-million pound store will open its doors in July, and will also act as Bosideng International Holdings Limited’s European headquarters, marking the company’s first investment in an overseas flagship store....

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South Molton Street store for The Kooples

Ultra trendy French fashion brand, The Kooples, has secured its fifth London store in as many months with a letting completion on chic South Molton Street, Central London. The 905 sq ft unit is due to open in 4 weeks time. Louisa Dalgleish, assistant surveyor at King Sturge, who advised the landlord, the City of London Corporation, says: “The...