Lauren Mang

Portland

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Freelance writer and editor. Copy Manager at Fossil. Flashy dresser, raging liberal, mediocre tennis player, devoted Bearcats fan.

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2025 Retail Trends Forecast: What’s to Come

2 months ago | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

ABOVE PHOTO: Wu Jianquan, Shenzhen, ChinaTHE NEW YEAR brings new resolutions, new perspectives – even new memes (looking at you, TikTok). But there are also plenty of new and emerging retail trends to keep on the radar as we get underway with 2025.
Fountain of Retail Inspiration

Oct 15, 2024 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

TOP PHOTO: ISTOCKPHOTOKC, Here We Come!Mentions of Kansas City, Mo., likely conjure a certain football team with back-to-back Super Bowl wins, its tight end and his pop star girlfriend or maybe the occasional “Ted Lasso” reference.
La Sportiva, Boulder, Colorado

Oct 8, 2024 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

ITALIAN MOUNTAIN GEAR and apparel brand La Sportiva planted its first U.S. flagship in Boulder, Colo., a city surrounded by the Rocky Mountains, recognized as a haven for hiking, climbing and other outdoor adventures. For the family-owned brand, which has created its wares in the foothills of Italy’s Dolomite Mountain range for more than 90 years, Boulder was an obvious choice.
Portfolio: Kuiu, Dallas

Aug 1, 2024 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

WHEN DIXON, CALIF.-BASED hunting gear and apparel brand Kuiu was looking to open its latest flagship, a 4500-square-foot store in Dallas, it wanted to prioritize selling once-in-a-lifetime adventures, not products. From the outset, that meant greeting shoppers with dramatic images of mountain peaks, sweeping vistas and the brand’s wares in action via large lightboxes in the exterior windows.
La Collection Privée Christian Dior, New York

Jun 2, 2024 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

FOR ITS FIRST standalone fragrance boutique in the United States, LVMH-owned luxury French fashion house Christian Dior (Paris) opted for a location with no shortage of foot traffic: New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
EE Studio, London

Apr 8, 2024 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

A HEADY MIX of calm and excitement: That’s the feeling Richard Bennett, Creative Director at London-based Dalziel & Pow, hopes to elicit from guests entering the EE Studio for the first time. “Excitement at the scale, the interactivity, the cool product, the beauty of the space,” he says of the new 4230-square-foot flagship from U.K. mobile network operator and Internet Service Provider (ISP) EE.
Face Time

Feb 6, 2024 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

A RECENT REPORT from Coresight Research last summer showed foot traffic in U.S. luxury malls was up by 12 percent in 2022 compared to 2019, while lower-end malls saw a 10 percent increase – and mannequin manufacturers are taking note, creating works that offer customization, body representation and even iterations that are symbolic of IRL interactions.
Healthy Spot, Culver City, Calif.

Dec 5, 2023 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

PET HEALTH AND WELLNESS were paramount to Andrew Kim and Mark Boonnark who co-founded their company Healthy Spot in 2008. Since then, they’ve continued to expand their offering of natural, full-service pet stores across California. Yet there was still an opportunity to dive deeper – to tell the brand story and emphasize the company’s core values within the Healthy Spot store environment.
Bull’s-Eye on Retail

Oct 7, 2023 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

There’s still time to register for IRDC 2023! Scan the QR code or visit irdconline.com EXPECT A VISUAL FEAST this October 25-26 as the International Retail Design Conference (IRDC) lands in Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota, and one with no shortage of scenic prowess, thanks to its plentiful wetlands, waterfalls, creeks, parks and more. As for retail prowess, it’s got that in spades, too.
Visual Merchandising and Store Design

Aug 4, 2023 | vmsd.com | Lauren Mang

vm trends: The 2600-square-foot shop is the hub of the customer experience, where product demonstrations and recipe curation happen. TO FULLY IMMERSE shoppers within the experience at The Spice House (Skokie, Ill.), a new store from the fine spice purveyors of the same name, designers at Little Diversified Architectural Consulting (Charlotte, N.C.) went for sensory engagement.