Fashion
Loewe opens first Austrian flagship store in Vienna
Published
August 18, 2025
Loewe has launched its own retail destination in Austria: The Spanish luxury brand recently opened its first store in Vienna as a flagship location in the country.
In the middle of Kohlmarkt, one of Vienna’s central shopping streets known for its luxury stores, Loewe presents a comprehensive range of women’s and men’s fashion, bags, accessories, shoes, small leather goods, glasses, and jewellery as well as scarves and shawls in a sales area measuring 347 m².
The interior of Loewe’s new store mixes textures, colours, and shapes with handmade ceramic tiles in shades of brown, green, white, and silver which harmonise with tactile marble. Other materials used, such as oak, brass, and concrete, contrast with the soft opulence of linen and velvet textiles.
In store, a curated selection of furniture rounds off the space: the organic shapes of chairs by George Nakashima and filigree N33 and Akari 1A lamps by Isamu Noguchi complement the angular lines of Utrecht chairs by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld.
The store also features Berin Club armchairs and antique Spanish ceramic vessels. Signature Loewe designs, including a table made of recycled leather and a bench made of quilted leather, are intended to underline the brand’s focus on high-quality manufacturing. Custom-made wool carpets from Spain, featuring reproductions of abstract landscapes by British textile artist John Allen, round off the interior.
In the new Vienna store, Loewe also presents a selection of pieces from its own art and design collection: these include four paintings by Canadian artist Silas Borsos, whose softly coloured fruit still life renderings – “The Misunderstanding”, “Marmalade Muses”, “Green Orchestra”, and “Sundial” – play with the boundary between abundance and the threat of decay.
A series of seven works by British potter Ian Godfrey playfully stages a questioning of ritual and form. Ten sculptures by Korean metalworker Jaiik Lee (finalist of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2023) glow as if each piece is in the midst of a transformation. Elsewhere, the painting Adoration (2024) by American artist Ian Felice is reminiscent of a fragment of a dream.
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In a press conference organised yesterday by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Bangladesh and 15 other trade bodies, ICC Bangladesh president Mahbubur Rahman said: “Our entrepreneurs and business chambers strongly support graduation. However, we stress the need for a three- to five-year extension.”
Top trade bodies in Bangladesh have called for delaying the country’s scheduled graduation from the LDC status by five to six years.
Though Bangladesh has fulfilled all three UN criteria, the graduation will bring with it new responsibilities and risks, and therefore, careful preparation is needed to ensure the transition leads to lasting success, ICC Bangladesh president Mahbubur Rahman said.
Though Bangladesh has fulfilled all three UN criteria—gross national income, human assets index and economic vulnerability index—in two consecutive reviews, such a graduation will bring with it new responsibilities and risks, and therefore, careful preparation is needed to ensure the transition leads to lasting success, Rahman said.
Risks include the possible loss of duty-free market access in key export destinations where tariffs of up to 12 per cent could be imposed, and that may lead to a 6-14 per cent drop in exports, he said.
“The press conference expressed optimism that the extended period would provide greater scope for export diversification, development of skilled manpower in automation and artificial intelligence (AI), and building capacity to face future challenges, thereby ensuring sustainable competitiveness in the global market,” the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) posted on Facebook.
The business leaders also raised concerns over the end of special and differential treatment by the World Trade Organization (WTO). “This will make patent rules stricter for the pharmaceutical sector and increase compliance costs,” Rahman cautioned.
Rahman noted that several countries had deferred their LDC graduation in the last.
The proposed five- to six-year deferment would offer Bangladesh the time to secure trade deals with several countries and economic blocs, he added.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
Published
August 28, 2025
The British Retail Consortium is getting a female chair for the very first time with former Matalan and Co-op exec Jo Whitfield to take over from Andy Higginson in early October.
Whitfield has a quarter of a century of experience in retail and is currently a non-executive and audit chair at Asda, a non-executive and chair of the ethics committee at Factory International, and host of the Manchester International Festival.
She also played a leading industry role campaigning alongside the BRC to achieve better safety recognition and a change to the law to protect retail shopworkers.
She’ll be joined by Eve Williams, as a new non-executive director on the BRC board. Again, she’s hugely experienced and is VP and general manager of eBay UK as well as having held executive marketing and customer roles in both eBay and at ASOS, before being appointed to her current role.
Whitfield said: “I’m honoured to be joining the BRC as its first female Chair, and to be supporting Helen and her team at such a pivotal time. Retail is an incredibly valuable industry, employing over 3 million people who support their families through their work. It’s also uniquely inclusive and many of us have built our careers from the shop floor or from working-class backgrounds, rising into leadership roles and enjoying fulfilling careers.
“Retailers are at the heart of communities, and we’re acutely aware of the many government policies currently under consideration that could either support or hinder our industry. This is a critical moment for us all and now more than ever, we need a strong, united voice. I look forward to working closely with Helen and the team to ensure the interests of our industry are championed and protected.”
And Helen Dickinson, BRC CEO, added: “Jo and Eve join the board as we deal with multiple public policy headwinds and more to do on big issues like climate change, inclusion, and creating the right environment for growth and investment. I know how passionate they both are on these areas and particularly on people so it’s great to welcome two more women to our board and our first female chair.
“It has been a pleasure working with Andy and I would like to thank him for his pragmatic, down-to-earth advice, leadership and support over the past two-and-a-half years. We are a stronger organisation for it.”
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The factory is likely to create 2,000 direct jobs and export nine-tenths of its production abroad.
SCZONE chairman Waleid Gamal El-Dien said the Qantara West Industrial Zone now hosts 34 projects with investments worth $859.3 million, providing over 48,000 direct jobs.
Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone has signed a deal with Turkiye’s Nil Orme to set up a $35-million textile-clothing unit in the former’s Qantara West Industrial Zone.
Meanwhile, Turkiye’s Sahinler Holding Group is planning to expand its operations in Egypt, investing over $41 million to expand its garment manufacturing and planning to complete its third sportswear factory in Egypt by the yearend.
Meanwhile, Turkish conglomerate Sahinler Holding Group is planning to expand its operations in Egypt with investments exceeding $100 million, according to an Egyptian media outlet. It is now investing over EGP 2 billion (~$41 million) to expand its ready-to-wear garment manufacturing.
This includes the completion of its third sportswear factory in Egypt by the end of 2026. It will raise production lines to 34 from the current 10.
A fourth garment factory for the Zara brand is also being planned in the third phase of Robbiki City, east of Cairo.
Founded in 1982, Sahinler now operates two sportswear factories in Egypt with a total investment of $50 million, alongside five additional facilities in Turkiye, Bulgaria, Germany and France.
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