Following Poland in December 2011 and Brasil in early February 2012, Nike Football will unveil a series Away National Team Kits to showcase the latest innovations in football apparel.
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Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy has released its 2nd annual global report dedicated to the retail sector. The Best Retail Brands report ranks the top 50 U.S. retail brands by brand value, as well as the top retail brands from the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, and the Asia Pacific region.
Coca-Cola has teamed up with French DJ and producer David Guetta to create a new signature bottle, limited edition Club Coke, which comes as a tribute to the culture of night life and clubbing. This strikingly vibrant Club Coke line, which was launched in 2005 with the M5 designs, already includes bottles developed by Justice and So_Me (2009), Mika (2010) and Daft Punk (2011) to name but a new. The collectible Guetta bottle was created with respect to the Club Coke’s visual ‘tradition—the piece got a luminescent twist, which allows it glow mysteriously in the semidarkness of night clubs.
Yesterday, Net-a-Porter, an online luxury retailer launched a new collection designed by Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld that was announced at Le Web in Paris in the end of the last year. Five augmented reality-enhanced shopping events across the globe took place at window locations in Paris, New York, London, Berlin and Sydney.
IKEA believes that its stores are not the only space where the brand’s houseware goods can be showcased and often takes them to city streets, opera or underground to demonstrate that IKEA goods perfectly fit any settings and can create proper atmosphere anywhere. Now, the international furniture retailer has come to a metro station in Paris again to promote its items with a new twist: the brand is not just exposing sofas and bookcases—it got five Parisians to spend almost a week in a small apartment fully furnished with IKEA pieces. The new live installation, which is developed by the UBI BENE agency, is currently on display in the Auber metro station.