Dior Unveils New Beauty Look at Selfridges

Dior Unveils New Beauty Look at Selfridges

LONDON — Dior is uniting its fashion and beauty business with one retail vision. At Selfridges, the brand has unveiled its first new look for its perfume and makeup spaces, which will be implemented globally with other wholesale partners. The concept is centered around Dior’s couture universe with golden hues visible everywhere, from the display … Read more

Selfridges Hosts Event for Perfect Moment, Johnnie Walker Collab

Selfridges Hosts Event for Perfect Moment, Johnnie Walker Collab

ICE ICE BABY: Three luxury lifestyle names are teaming on an experience meant to tickle the senses, and send chills up the spine. Johnnie Walker Blue Label and fashion skiwear brand Perfect Moment have created an ice chalet in the Selfridges hotel space, which is located next to the store on Orchard Street, and is … Read more

Selfridges’ Former CEO Andrew Keith to Revamp Historic Scottish Site

Selfridges’ Former CEO Andrew Keith to Revamp Historic Scottish Site

LONDON — Andrew Keith, whose past roles include chief executive officer of Selfridges and president of Lane Crawford and Joyce, will take on the challenge of transforming the historic Jenners department store site in Edinburgh into a new retail and hospitality hub. Keith has been tapped by the building’s owners, AAA United, to lead the … Read more

Fashion designers turn old car parts into clothing as part of a recycling revolution

Fashion designers turn old car parts into clothing as part of a recycling revolution

If you believe BMW development director Frank Weber, the car is on the verge of yet another revolution. In addition to digitalisation and electrification, he says, circularity will become an increasingly important feature of vehicles. That means reusing materials that go into making cars. Motor manufacturers are slowly running out of the raw materials needed … Read more

John Skelton is EBIT’s New Cultural and Creative Director

John Skelton is EBIT’s New Cultural and Creative Director

LONDON — John Skelton has been named cultural and creative director of EBIT, a clothing brand founded by Simon Whitehouse that aims to spark conversations about mental health. EBIT, which stands for Enjoy Being in Transition, taps the creativity of designers, musicians and artists and works across different mediums, including gaming. Skelton’s appointment marks his … Read more

Cartier Shows Off Its Accessories With Selfridges Pop-up

Cartier Shows Off Its Accessories With Selfridges Pop-up

LONDON — Cartier is slowly gearing up to take over London, but for now, it’s starting with a pop-up at Selfridges. The Richemont-owned brand has taken up space in the Accessories Hall of the luxury department store until Nov. 3 to showcase its stylish selection of leather goods, eyewear and silk scarves. Cartier’s Panthère de … Read more

Can Instore Sex Therapists, Skate Ramps Save Luxury Department Stores?

Can Instore Sex Therapists, Skate Ramps Save Luxury Department Stores?

BERLIN — As one attendee put it succinctly, there’s “buying” and then there’s “shopping.” Attendees at the World Department Store Summit, held in Berlin late last week, are definitely all about the latter. Last Thursday and Friday, more than 310 delegates, many of them chief executive officers and senior managers, from 50 high-end department stores … Read more

Could Modest Fashion Be the Answers to Luxury’s Slow Down?

Could Modest Fashion Be the Answers to Luxury’s Slow Down?

LONDON — Hemlines are dropping to the floor and modesty is back in fashion as a consequence of a weak stock market, a cost of living crisis, the quiet luxury trend and tradwife content on social media. Economist George Taylor came up with the hemline index in 1926, predicting that when hemlines rise, so does … Read more

Selfridges Turns Blue for Tiffany & Co.’s Redesigned Store

Selfridges Turns Blue for Tiffany & Co.’s Redesigned Store

LONDON — Selfridges this week turned blue for a brief moment to commemorate the opening of Tiffany & Co.’s revamped, upsized space inside the upscale department store’s London flagship on Oxford Street. The 3,788-square-foot space on the ground floor showcases the brand’s latest design concept, inspired by the renovated Fifth Avenue flagship designed by Peter … Read more