Michael Kors has compared visiting his new London store to eating “a delicious pizza”. The American designer, who has opened a store in London’s Regent’s Street, says it is the shopping equivalent of eating something that tastes good but is affordable, commenting: “I love indulgent caviar, but I also enjoy a delicious pizza – they’re just different experiences. The same goes for my new store.”
The designer, who already has a flagship store in London’s Bond Street, always insists on quality and value, no matter what the price point, and that goes for designing his stores too. Consequently, Clements Retail is the company he calls when he requires high quality workmanship.
In actual fact, Clements Retail has also recently completed work on Michael Kors’ 7000ft2, two-storey Paris store situated on rue Saint-Honoré; it is the largest in his 175-shop chain around the world. The Paris store, the opening of which was timed perfectly to celebrate the brand’s 30th anniversary, is decorated in gleaming white, glass and chrome, with zebra-skin rugs on the floors, and black and white blow-up photographs of celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Robert Redford on the walls.
Together, the London and Paris stores represent the culmination of six months’ work for Clements Retail, which regularly carries out projects for the world’s leading brands.
Clements Retail understands that store design is an important aspect of the shopping experience and, from its 35,000 ft.? Leicester-based in-house production facility, offers both retailer and designer a multi-discipline resource under one roof, comprising joinery, a full CNC capability, architectural metalwork, spray finishes, polishing, and a fully automated acrylics facility.
Core capabilities within the company include logistics and project management, design development, value engineering, stock control and installation: in fact, everything you need to successfully open a new store.
Of course, the design of a retail environment can sometimes mean the difference between business success and failure, so it pays to get it right first time. Your sales rely on it and the reputation of your brand demands it. That’s why Clements Retail is the first choice for many discerning retailers and the designers they trust to give them advice. That’s why Michael Kors relies upon Clements Retail.
