Shopping Lessons From Southeast Asia Alongside @Rena_Tom
Saturday, 10 September 2011
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I got dorsum from a whirlwind trip to Singapore, Bangkok in addition to Hong Kong this yesteryear weekend. It was a household unit of measurement vacation, precisely I couldn’t assistance doing this wallet afterwards reading that the designers are Harvard-trained architects precisely pattern in addition to create inwards Shanghai.
What else did I learn? There is a fourth dimension in addition to house for large retailers, in addition to I acknowledge to succumbing to the siren telephone telephone of Muji in addition to Uniqlo. Savvy smaller retailers (with cash behind them) tin acquire a infinite at the mall too, positioning themselves inwards front end of shoppers amongst laid upward money, such equally the street fashion construct Sugarman, right away amongst half-dozen boutiques inwards Hong Kong. This may non endure the agency for every store, precisely cannot endure ignored equally a path for those who desire to select handle of a shopper who is looking for unique designs in addition to a picayune local street cred.
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Rena Tom is a retail strategist for creative concern owners. She previously owned Rare Device, a boutique in addition to fine art gallery amongst locations inwards New York in addition to San Francisco that was renowned for its carefully edited collection of pattern objects, books, housewares in addition to accessories, in addition to for supporting small, innovative designers in addition to artists whose operate was non easily flora inwards stores. Rena blogs well-nigh personal projects equally good equally retail trends in addition to pocket-sized concern tips at renatom.net. She lives inwards San Francisco amongst her hubby in addition to babe man child inwards an story filled amongst likewise many laptops, Sprecher origin beer, half-finished arts and crafts projects in addition to overdue library books.