Destination Dubai
Belgian luxury brand
Delvaux has made its first move into the Middle East with the opening of its store at Dubai
Mall on Thursday.
The Brussels-based house has found a home on the ground floor or the Fashion Avenue section of the Emirati luxury shopping destination, where its neighbors include Dior, Piaget, Alaïa and Bulgari.
Chief executive officer JeanMarc Loubier, who returned to the helm after the brand was acquired by Compagnie Financière Richemont in June 2021, stated it was “a pleasure and a commitment for Delvaux to be present in such a different and cosmopolitan city.”
The 2,100-square-foot unit has been designed in collaboration with Milan-based architectural bureau Vudafieri Saverino, who previously designed a number of Delvaux boutiques including stores in Rome and Milan.
Inside, the slick marble of the walls is counterbalanced by the oak Point de Hongrie parquet floor and wall units nodding to traditional Flemish furniture. Antique tools of leatherworking craft decorate an arch that separates a second space, home to a leather goods bar nodding to the European café tradition that will offer personalization options such as hot-stamping. A separate lounge can be used for private events.
To mark the opening, its windows feature a display nodding to the Atomium, an atomshaped landmark building that shares its 1958 construction date with the brand’s Brillant handbag.
Delvaux has 57 stores globally, including 34 in Asia, its main market, and six in its homeland of Belgium.
Its next boutique in the Middle East is slated to open in the second half of 2022 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. — LILY TEMPLETON a stylist and gift wrap, and also take in used clothing and shoes for donations to Housing Works, and empty beauty packaging for recycling.
In 2020 Nordstrom began offering same- and nextday delivery services to the Hamptons, as many urbanites flocked to Long Island’s East End due to the pandemic.
Nordstrom Locals are service hubs to make shopping more convenient and are not merchandised with products for shopping. There are seven permanent Nordstrom Locals — two in Manhattan and five in California, including two in
Los Angeles and one each in Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach and Santa Monica.
“Nordstrom Local service hubs play an important role in delivering on our Closer to
You strategy and our priority to win in our most important markets because they allow us to get physically closer to our customers,” Jamie Nordstrom, chief stores officer at Nordstrom Inc., said in a statement on the retailer’s website.
The Closer to You strategy leverages the physical assets of Nordstrom’s full-line department stores, Nordstrom Rack and Nordstrom Local to increase services, conveniences and merchandise choices, and speed deliveries. For example, shoppers can return items bought online or at Nordstrom department stores to a Rack or Nordstrom Local location, which may be closer to them. Nordstrom sees the strategy as strengthening customer engagement and the company’s customer-centric culture.
The New York metro area is one of Nordstrom’s largest markets with seven full-line stores, 15 Rack off-price stores and two Nordstrom Locals.
“New Yorkers have embraced Nordstrom Locals since we opened our first two locations on the Upper East Side and West Village in 2019,” said Chris Wanlass, vice president and general manager, New York City. “This summer at our Nordstrom Local pop-up in the Hamptons, we’ll continue to make it easy for our customers and expand how and where we serve them.”
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