It’s by design that Faherty’s newest store in Montecito feels like a home away from home. The 75th location for the sportswear brand is not only housed in a two-story building that has a bungalow feel, it’s situated on Coast Village Road — a destination that chief executive officer and cofounder Alex Faherty often explores … Read more
Rodd & Gunn is making its way uptown. Six months after planting a stake in Manhattan with a store in the Flatiron district, the Auckland, New Zealand-based men’s brand will open a unit at 555 Fifth Avenue on Dec. 10. The space, at 46th Street, will total 3,378 square feet with 1,870 square feet on … Read more
While Jil Sander is undergoing a change in its C-suite — with chief executive officer Luca Lo Curzio exiting the company and landing at K-Way last month — its retail rollout hasn’t stopped. The OTB-owned fashion label has just unveiled its biggest store yet, opening a flagship in Tokyo’s Ginza district that is building on the brand’s … Read more
Tommy Bahama is committed to Sarasota, Fla. The company has had a presence in the city’s commercial center, St. Armands Circle, since 1996 when a store and restaurant debuted at 300 John Ringling Boulevard. Since then the popularity of the restaurant prompted the company to convert the space to the restaurant only and the store … Read more
Gymshark is inching closer to opening its first permanent U.S. store. The U.K.-based fitness brand opened a pop-up at 105 Wooster Street in New York’s SoHo on Saturday that will remain through the end of January. The company has said it will open a flagship in New York in 2025, although the location and timing … Read more
In this day and age, the words stress and travel go hand in hand. And, often, travel stress begins with packing — but Calpak is aiming to alleviate that with the arrival of its first brick-and-mortar store. The travel essentials brand has opened its first retail store in Los Angeles at Westfield Century City mall, allowing … Read more
Brooks Brothers has returned to downtown Boston. On Friday, the company opened a new three-story location at 109 Newbury Street. The retailer has been in the Boston market for 92 years and still operates several stores in the area, including units in the suburbs of Chestnut Hill, and Natick, Mass. But the 3,000-square-foot Newbury Street … Read more
Frère has had a number of iterations over the years, but it’s now found a new partner and some investors. For five years, the Haitian American designer and tailor Davidson Petit-Frère worked with Aleks Musika on a bespoke men’s suit brand called Musika Frère. When that brand closed in 2019, he ventured out on his … Read more
Massimo Dutti is returning to physical retailing in the U.S. by opening a store in the Aventura Mall in Florida that will sport the company’s latest store design. The Spanish brand, which is part of the Inditex Group, has also used the design concept at its stores in Paris, Madrid, Milan, London and its hometown … Read more
Don’t tell Vuori the athleisure market is softening. The Encinitas, Calif.-based brand on Friday said it has received an $825 million investment led by General Atlantic and Stripes, two global growth investors, along with a collection of other investors that now values the company at $5.5 billion. The investment, structured as a secondary tender offer, … Read more
