Retail design / Tokyo
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The skilfully designed and lovingly curated United Arrows flagship entices shoppers with its bazaar-style retail concept.
Now that beautiful clothes are available at the click of a mouse, retailers could be forgiven for questioning the point of a lavishly designed flagship. Thankfully there is no such reticence in Japan, where shop design continues to be an art form. Here the fashion empire United Arrows has just thrown its weight – and a substantial budget – behind a space that should thrill even the most hardened of online shoppers. Spread across two floors, this newly expanded and completely made-over men’s and womenswear shop in Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills is home to…