retail tip

Exactly 50 years ago, the first Dille & Kamille store opened in a shipyard cellar on the Oudegracht in Utrecht, the Netherlands. There are now 47 stores in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

“People who like to wear black clothes often live very colorful lives,” is the slogan of the WOLFGANG brand.

The Nine Streets is Amsterdam’s trendy area, made up of nine narrow, picturesque streets, which captures the hearts of visitors with the unique charm of its authentic surroundings and special product mix.

Typical, traditional items from stationery, ceramics, food, textiles, games, and toys to cosmetics and perfumes that have long been forgotten and are still fondly remembered can be found in the heart of the Vieux Nice district.

The name comes from Torquato Tasso, an Italian poet from the 16th century. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made Tasso the focus of a work in five acts that premiered in Weimar in 1807.

In 2023, you can’t miss the 150th anniversary of Kastner & Öhler in Graz, especially if you were born in this beautiful city and have spent much of your life there. The “Kastner,” as it is often called, has been where people go for fashion inspiration and spend time with family and friends for generations. But K&Ö is also a guarantor of carefully selected goods from the fashion capitals in high quality.

If you want to give yourself a present as a brand for your 20th anniversary, it has to be something special. This was the approach of the founder of Rituals, Raymond Cloosterman, who gave himself his own house – the House of Rituals, in Kalverstraat, Amsterdam’s most prominent shopping street.

Anyone strolling through Stuttgart cannot avoid Tritschler, a fundamental institution in the city’s specialist retail landscape. The company offers an almost unrivaled selection of tableware and lifestyle products across 3000 sq m on four floors in the middle of the market square.

The largest outdoor store in Europe occupies a space of 7000 sq m spread across four floors right in the heart of Cologne. Globetrotter is defining the term “experience” in a new way.

The first shop in the reshuffling of stores in the center of Vienna has now opened its doors: Louis Vuitton has moved into the former headquarters of Julius Meinl (since 1999; next door, at Am Graben 19, the delicatessen has been open since 1950).

Over the past few decades, the fashion industry has been characterized by its rapid pace and constant repetition. It was clear to everyone that such a situation would prove unsustainable in the long term. Now, fortunately, awareness has changed in the sense that we are more questions and are more conscious of the things that we buy. Our goal is to live as sustainably as possible in order to achieve balance.

In the future, cities will have more green spaces than parking spaces for cars. New models of use such as subscription models or special leasing options are already being offered by some providers, the call for more efficient use of vehicles is becoming louder and louder.

London’s scene has a new favorite neighborhood that has long been considered trendy: the multicultural quarter of Shoreditch in the Hackney district in the northwest of the center.

What does a family business based in St. Veit an der Glan in Austria, roughly 20 km from Lake Wörthersee, do that has been concerned with time for over 45 years? It creates a paradise of deceleration.