Korean retail store

Image 7 of 19 from gallery of o’flower Shop / Plainoddity. Photograph by Yongjoon Choi

The Innisfree flagship store in Midtown Manhattan is a one-of-a-kind, New York City-centric retail experience for the Korean beauty brand. The store is visually divided into two stacked layers which emphasize the juxtaposition of the brand’s nat

-BoF’s Entrepreneurship Week kicks off with a report on South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster, which dodged the Warby Parker-clone trap with a design-led approach. SEOUL, South Korea — In 2011, the world was awash with Warby Parker clones: Brands that walked like Warby, talked like Warby and shilled like Warby. They capitalised on the buzzy start-up’s direct-to-consumer, buy-a-pair-give-a-pair model and borrowed heavily from the company’s visual identity with the hopes of capturing a…

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Completed in 2022 in Hong Kong, China. Images by Timmy Lo . Sitting at the bottom of a Chinese tenement building in one of Hong Kong’s most historic districts revitalized with handicraft shops as well as...

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