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  • Experience Nature and Luxury: Dior’s Botanical Pavilion Debuts in Tokyo

    Experience Nature and Luxury: Dior’s Botanical Pavilion Debuts in Tokyo

    Dior, a renowned luxury fashion brand, is poised to establish an immersive, botanical-themed pavilion in Tokyo. This development is in line with the brand’s previous initiatives of similar nature in Bangkok and Seoul.

    A Glowing Facade with a Parisian Touch

    The exterior of the new store takes its cues from Dior’s Paris flagship location, integrating elements of the original design into a stunning, bamboo-inspired golden facade. This captivating design not only embraces the brand’s roots but also assimilates local aesthetics, creating a harmonious blend of French elegance and Japanese simplicity.

    Embracing Nature and Art

    This project’s heart lies in a massive 19,000 square feet indoor green space, conceptualized by floral artist Azuma Makoto. The space features a tranquil Zen garden by landscape architect Seijun Nishihata, alongside a terrace and a pond populated with luminous glass koi carp. The interior design includes Versailles parquet flooring, washi paper-clad walls and ceilings, and lanterns that pay homage to the iconic Lady Dior bag.

    A Showcase of Dior Collections

    Within the pavilion, visitors will have the chance to explore Dior’s women’s and men’s collections, crafted under the direction of creative director Jonathan Anderson. The range extends from ready-to-wear clothing to leather goods, shoes, accessories and jewellery. An exclusive area will also be set up for customers to personalize their Lady Dior and Book Tote bags.

    More than Retail: A Gastronomic Experience

    In addition to offering a shopping experience, the pavilion will feature Café Dior, where visitors can dine on an exclusive menu curated by Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic.

    Art and Design Collaborations

    The boutique will also serve as a gallery, showcasing works by contemporary designers and studios such as Takt Project, Sho Ota, Ayumi Shibata, We+, Hana Mitsui and Chikaken.

    Questions & Answers

    What is the theme of the new Dior store in Tokyo?
    The store will have a botanical theme, with design elements inspired by bamboo and a large indoor green space.

    What unique features does the store offer aside from retail?
    Apart from shopping, visitors can enjoy a meal at Café Dior, which features a menu developed by Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic. The store also features works from contemporary artists and designers.

    What special services will be available for customers?
    Customers will have the opportunity to personalize their Lady Dior and Book Tote bags in a dedicated space within the store.

  • Officine Panerai makes debut in Malaysia

    Officine Panerai makes debut in Malaysia

    Officine Panerai Malaysia has opened its first store. The Italian luxury watchmaker’s new boutique is the brand’s 81st worldwide and fourth location in Southeast Asia, forming part of Panerai’s strategy to boost its market in the region. It was designed by Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola to depict Panerai’s naval and wartime heritage.

    “Together with partner Swiss Watch Gallery, we look forward to providing an exceptional experience for our clients and conveying our values and Swiss know-how”, said Panerai Southeast Asia and Oceania MD Giacomo Cinelli at the launch.

    “It’s a little exhausting for the local watch collectors here to keep having to travel to a Panerai boutique, so we are here for our existing clients and we provide an entrance and platform for the new ones as well”, he said.

    Submersible timepieces feature prominently in the store’s range, retailing from RM57,700 (US$14,180) to RM168,470 ($41,400).

  • Lancome pop-up store opens in Pavilion KL

    Lancome pop-up store opens in Pavilion KL

    Lancome is set to launch its first exclusive pop-up store at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. The Lancome pop-up store will open from January 7 until February 15 in celebration of the Chinese New Year and be promoted via a “Wish Big” campaign offering limited edition beauty products alongside other prizes, including a grand prize trip to Paris.

    Store visitors will be able to sample Lancome’s Advanced Genifique product as well as send personalised CNY e-greetings and enjoy various interactive activities. Shoppers will be able to buy from several limited edition Lancome bestsellers.

     

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  • Cle De Peau Beaute opens first Malaysian store

    Cle De Peau Beaute opens first Malaysian store

    Luxury skincare and makeup brand Cle De Peau Beaute Malaysia has opened its first boutique, at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur shopping centre. The store features a makeup gallery which tells the story of Pave-Diamond particles while a skincare gallery showcases La Creme.

    The store has consultation tables with personal beauty specialists available to help customers choose the most suitable products for their skin types.

    A VIP-consultation space at the back of the boutique hosts signature facial treatments, which incorporate massage techniques by aestheticians.

    “The retail landscape has changed tremendously in the past 15 years,” said Hiroyuki Maeda, Cle de Peau Beaute global director of business operations with the group. “This change is not specific to just Malaysia but on a global level. As a brand, we need to continuously innovate and transform to make ourselves relevant to our customers.”

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  • Lego Malaysia opens seventh store

    Lego Malaysia opens seventh store

    Lego Malaysia has just opened its seventh store, a flagship on the sixth floor of the Pavilion Elite shopping mall on Jalan Bukit Bintang.

    “Lego has been a global household name for generations, taking creative play to new heights year after year,” said Tan Lian Ann, MD of ALJ Distributors, which owns the Lego store.

    “The brand has and continues to come up with interesting products for all ages.

    “We are thankful to Lego Trading Malaysia and Pavilion Elite for collaborating with us on this latest venture to provide consumers with a new shopping experience. Together, we look forward to continuously bring high-quality Lego Play experiences, not just to children, but also to adult fans and enthusiasts,” said Tan.

    The 279 sqm store aims to provide an interactive and vibrant shopping experience.

    Aside from showcasing innovative displays alongside its products, the store invites visitors to experience Lego Play – from building personalised mini figures to selecting specific bricks from its Pick-A-Brick wall.

    The flagship also offers products normally sold only at LegoShop.com or in Lego stores in the US and Europe.

  • JD Sports Malaysia opens first flagship

    JD Sports Malaysia opens first flagship

    JD Sports Malaysia has opened its first flagship store – on level 5 of Pavilion shopping centre in Kuala Lumpur.

    It is the British sportswear retailer’s largest store in Southeast Asia with a floor area of 13,590 sqft and opens following the success of the company’s Sunway Pyramid store.

    The biggest pure for customers is expected to be the extensive range of sneakers from multiple brands, including special editions.

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    “Sneaker culture is growing across the world, and JD Sports has been at the forefront of providing customers with exclusive, hard-to-get and desirable trainers in all of the markets we service,” said Peter Cowgill, chairman of JD Sports Fashion.

    “JD Sports carries large number of brands, which means we have something for everyone, from Nike to Adidas to Reebok, to our own in-house brands such Pink Soda, Supply and Demand and Sonnetti,” added Jaclyn Tan, senior manager brand marketing with JD Sports Malaysia.

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    The company says it plans to add more stores in the country and has this month organised recruiting days for prospective staff to join the team.

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  • Damiani Malaysia opens in Pavilion

    Damiani Malaysia opens in Pavilion

    Italian luxury jewellery group Damiani Malaysia has opened a boutique store in the Pavilion shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur.

    Damiani Pavilion Malaysia

    Precious materials are used in the store’s interior to create a sophisticated environment to enhance the tradition and modernity of Damiani’s jewellery. The interior features taupe satin wallpaper and bronzed brass details.

    Founded in 1924, Damiani designs, manufactures, distributes and sells jewellery and luxury watches. The company manages 55 direct and 20 franchised points of sale internationally.

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  • Two more Kuala Lumpur malls opening

    Two more Kuala Lumpur malls opening

    Two Kuala Lumpur malls, collectively offering more than 2 million sqft (185,806 sqm) in net lettable area, will open in Cheras, Klang Valley, by the end of the year.

    Moreover, the MyTown Shopping Centre (below picture) and Sunway Velocity Mall (above picture) will be just 800m away from each other.

    Cheras already has the Aeon Maluri shopping centre and Cheras Leisure Mall, with The Tun Razak Exchange also on the horizon, reports The Star.

    MyTown is being developed by Boustead Ikano while Sunway Velocity Mall is a Sunway Groupproperty. MyTown will be structurally linked to Ikea Cheras, the largest outlet mall in Malaysia.
    With a population of 800,000 people, Cheras is an “ample market”, says Sunway Shopping Malls & Theme Parks CEO HC Chan.

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    “Fundamentally, the real issue is the absence of lifestyle and experiential malls in Cheras – Sunway Velocity Mall fills this void. I am looking from a quality rather than a quantity perspective… we are addressing this from multiple angles.”

    Boustead Ikano GM Jo Hogsander agrees there is demand for more retail space, especially in Cheras. He says that when the MRT line opens it will ease traffic congestion and boost accessibility to the mall.

    “Game changer”

    Chan also sees the MRT as a “game changer”. “Two out of six MRT stations in Cheras will serve Sunway Velocity, which translates to a capacity of about 400,000 passengers a day.”
    He says Sunway Velocity Mall would not only compete, but also complement the MyTown Shopping Centre.

    “Competition is healthy, but in the longer term we will complement each other. Just look at the Bukit Bintang area and the number of malls there. It’s thriving because it gives consumers a choice.”
    Despite the number of malls in the Klang Valley, Hogsander says they are still crowded, even on a weekday afternoon.

    “I went to our competitors on a Thursday afternoon and couldn’t find a parking space. I then went to another competitor and had to do laps to find parking – and these are big shopping centres with more than 6000 parking bays.”

    Sunway Velocity Mall and MyTown Shopping Centre will open on October 28 and November 15 respectively, 18 days apart. Both malls boast 6500 parking bays.

    Sunway will have a NLA of 1 million sqft and accommodate 500 shops, while MyTown will have 460 stores on 1.1 million sqft of space.

    Sunway Velocity Mall’s anchor tenants include Harvey Norman, Parkson, TGV Cinemas and Toys’R’Us, while MyTown has secured such brands as Golden Screen Cinema, Mango, Uniqlo and Village Grocer.

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  • Malaysia malls target Vietnamese

    Malaysia malls target Vietnamese

    Representatives of Malaysia malls have been in Vietnam trying to drum up business via tour operators.

    But the Malaysians will face an uphill battle luring Vietnamese – Bangkok is only an hour away from Ho Chi Minh City and probably the best-serviced destination in the region, with at least seven airlines offering hour-long flights daily between the two cities.

    Retail and tourism representatives from Malaysia met with tour organisers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to introduce a campaign aimed at enticing Vietnamese to visit Malaysia to shop.

    Three specific annual sales campaigns were also being promoted by the group, including officials from the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (Tourism Malaysia) and Secretariat Shopping Malaysia(SSM).

    At an associated travel mart, 14 representatives of 10 malls and retail groups met with travel agencies to seek possible co-operation, reports TuoitreNews. In the delegation were representatives of such groups as the Batu Road Retailers Association, Fahreinheit88, Pavilion Kuala Lumpur and Sunway Putra Mall.

    Tourism Malaysia deputy-director general Chong Yoke Har says the sales campaigns are the 1Malaysia Super Sale for all of March, the 1Malaysia Mega Sale Carnival, from June 15 to August 31, and the 1Malaysia Year-End Sale, on the last two months of the year.

    Tourism Malaysia has also introduced Miss Shophia, the new shopping symbol for Malaysia and designed to help international tourists find shopping experiences.

    Shopping accounts for most of Malaysia’s tourism revenue. As of the end of September last, tourist spending rose 2.9 per cent from a year earlier to RM15.3 billion (US$3.8 billion), or 30 per cent of the total tourism revenue of RM51 billion.

    Last year, 229,626 Vietnamese tourists visited Malaysia, a 19 percent decline from 2014, when they spent about RM560.1 million. Chong is hopeful more Vietnamese will return to Malaysia for shopping as the two countries are relatively close and there are nonstop flights.

    Meanwhile, Bangkok is closer, accommodation is cheaper and shopping malls targeting foreigners and tourists are clustered close together and well served by public transport.

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  • KL Pavilion endures slowdown

    KL Pavilion endures slowdown

    Kuala Lumpur’s showcase Pavilion mall says it has weathered the sluggish retail market, posting increased earnings this quarter.

    Gross revenue for the first quarter of the current calendar and financial year was RM105.1 million (US$29.6 million) which translated into a net profit of RM60.5 million ($17 million).

    Revenue rose by four per cent year-on-year after renovations were completed last year, and due to an increase in service charges.

    The mall’s occupancy rates were stable and this year just 15 per cent of tenants leases are scheduled to expire. Pavilion mall management expects only a slight relocation and revision of the current tenant mix.

    Renovations are planned of restrooms, parts of level one in the foodcourt area and enhancements of the air conditioning system to reduce power consumption and air flow.

    Pavilion management reports tenants sales were stable through the quarter, but warned April sales are down due to the introduction of GST on April 1.

    In a research note, Hong Leong IB said it expected the slowdown will only be temporary.

    “Consumers will adjust their spending habits after a while.”