Experience Retail Now
CONTENTS
JUNE 2 011
Vol. 142, No. 6
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COLUMNS
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FROM THE EDITOR VMSD EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD THE GOODS
Macy’s flower show RFIDs at Common People Guinness store debuts on Vegas strip IRDC session update GlobalShop highlights
16 DESIGN DETAIL
Kelley’s Kookies cooks up fun in L.A.
18 NEXT STORE
Get to know your tech-savvy shoppers
46 SHOWROOM
Fixtures
63 AD INDEX 64 CHECKING OUT
Two West’s Gavin Johnston
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F E AT U R E S
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Pierre Hardy creates a statement in glass, concrete and steel for its U.S. debut.
28
CITY BLOCKS
U.K.’s Dixons goes after a new kind of electronics shopper with the visually inspired Black concept.
34
THE COLORS OF BLACK
Urban Outfitters exposes the inner workings of its new Fifth Avenue location.
40
URBAN CANVAS
ON VMSD.com
Exclusives in June
BEACHY KEEN
Tommy Bahama combines retail and a restaurant in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Carlo Pazolini’s foot-inspired fixtures take home A.R.E.’s Fixture of the Year Award. Plus: all the fixture award winners.
On the cover An enlarged sketch by Pierre Hardy of details for a
THE SHOE FITS
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
woman’s shoe creates an eye-catching graphic for the designer’s new shoe boutique in New York.
PHOTOGRAPHY: ERIC LAIGNEL , NEW YORK
More insight on the design of Kelley’s Kookies.
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