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Braun Buffel has launched its new store concept at Ion Orchard in Singapore, creating a brand experience with multiple physical and digital touch-points. The store’s facade features Champagne-gold fonts against soft white frames. To create a modern look,…
Crate & Barrel Singapore will close its flagship store at Orchard Gateway. The 25,000sqft five-story outlet has operated at the location for five years, but will close on November 10. That will leave the US home furnishing brand with just one store, at Ion…
The Bottega Veneta Singapore boutique at Ion Orchard has undergone a major makeover. The 255sqm store has been fully renovated in time to celebrate the arrival of the first Bottega Veneta collection designed by new creative director Daniel Lee. Under the…
Multi-brand concept store Manifesto has opened a new flagship store on Singapore’s Orchard Road. Manifesto’s new space in Mandarin Gallery envelopes guests in “the stark and abstract beauty of the Saharan landscape”, featuring sand colours and organic…
Design Orchard mall is set to open on January 25 hosting 61 homegrown labels. The new Orchard Road mall, a joint venture between the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), JTC Corporation and Enterprise Singapore, is conceived of as a home and exhibition space for…
Italian fashion label Marcelo Burlon has launched a Singapore flagship store on Orchard Road. The Marcelo Burlon Singapore store – the brand’s first in Southesast Asia, will offer a comprehensive range of the brand’s most recent collections, as well as the…
The Orchard Road retail vacancy rate has dropped to 5.6 per cent in the second quarter. According to a report by CBRE, the rate is the lowest in 14 quarters and well below 2016 figures. CBRE’s head of research for Southeast Asia Desmond Sim said, “On the back…
Just one of Japanese department store chain Takashimaya’s three overseas stores is currently trading at a profit. But the company says it believes it can make them all profitable by 2023, including a fourth store set to open in Bangkok late this year. The…
The Dark Gallery has launched a second cafe and boutique on Orchard Road, featuring a menu that differs from its debut outpost at Millenia Walk. In the basement of Takashimaya Shopping Centre, The Dark Gallery is set up to tempt window shoppers with its…
Desigual Singapore reopens its Orchard Road store today, the first to feature the fashion brand’s new design concept with its customer-oriented shopping experience. The 300sqm space will also be the first Singapore outlet for the brand’s sports category,…
Orchard Road has had many incarnations. It got its name from the many nutmeg and fruit orchards that existed in the last century. It has always been an important street, connecting the residential area of Tanglin to the business and commercial areas of…
Following a holiday in Singapore last year, a restaurateur couple has returned to open a casual gourmet burger restaurant, Hans Im Gluck, in Orchard Road. The brand’s 50th outlet and first outpost in Asia, it specialises in vegan, vegetarian, beef and chicken…
A Singapore Minions Cafe has opened at Orchard Central – the first one to trade outside Japan. Minions, the yellow cartoon characters who made their debut in the Despicable Me movies and have now spurned their own films, will host diners on the mall’s third…
Drawing inspiration from Europe, a Singapore Christmas village featuring pop-up stores from 25 brands, will make its debut at the annual Orchard Road light-up this year. Outside Ngee Ann City from November 25 to Christmas Day, the village will feature such…
A “design incubator” to showcase home-grown brands and designers will open in the heart of Orchard Road by the end of next year. This was revealed by Trade and Industry Minister S Iswaran at the Singapore Retail Industry Conference on Friday. He said the…
Smoking will be prohibited in all public spaces in the Orchard Road area — from Tanglin to Dhoby Ghaut — from July 1 next year, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on Friday (June 30). The existing 16 smoking corners, which exist within food retail…
