Gentle Monster

Retail Asia28/08/2017

Designer eyewear brand Gentle Monster from Korea will open its first flagship store for Southeast Asia in Orchard Road next month. With Samara (Sanskrit for “circle of life”) as its concept, the Ion Orchard space will off the brand’s full range, including its new collaboration with British actress/model/artist Tilda Swinton. Gentle Monster, which also has […]

Retail Asia27/01/2017

Korean eyewear retailer Gentle Monster is creating jaw-dropping retail executions across Asia and beyond. The images accompanying this story are of the equally unique Beijing flagship store, located in the Sanlitun retail precinct. Each Gentle Monster flagship features a completely different design format, inspiration and execution – it is the utmost opposite to traditional retail […]

Retail Asia04/11/2016

Luxury eyewear brand Gentle Monster from South Korea has opened a flagship store, The Artisan, in Shanghai. It is on a tree-lined stretch of Huaihai Zhong Lu, an artery road in the former French Concession. Gentle Monster has opened several flagship stores in the past two years, in Seoul, Beijing, Hong Kong and New York […]

Retail Asia01/03/2016

Chinese travellers have emerged as one of the few bright spots for Korean department stores suffering from dull domestic consumption. The arrival of a new demographic of consumers has prompted an all-out fight to attract deep-pocketed clients, industry officials told Yonhap. Sales at department stores inched down 0.4 per cent on-year to 29.22 trillion won […]

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Art feature of Gentle Monster flagship

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