OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on the U.S. App Store, according to new data from...
A Texas boot brand planting roots in the heart of SoHo is curious enough. But the real surprise inside Tecovas’ first New York store can be found towards the back: a full bar serving beers, bourbons and old fashioneds — all on the house, no purchase necessary. In fact, drinks are free at all but...
Unlike some people (snobs), I have never felt any apprehension about the food section at Marshall’s or TJ Maxx or Home Goods. In fact, I make a beeline there, eager to see what marked-down multicolored pastas and bargain-bin pseudo-gourmet cookies might await me. There is an art to buying food at Marshall’s; I’d never buy...
By Reuters Published October 1, 2025 Ingka Group, the biggest global IKEA retailer, has acquired a Manhattan property where it plans to open a new store as part of the furniture group’s expansion in the United States, it said on Wednesday. Reuters The 53,000 square feet property in New York City’s SoHo district will house...
Published October 1, 2025 Nine years after opening her first store in Venice, Los Angeles, eyewear designer Ahlem Manai-Platt will open a second location in Melrose Place in a few weeks, her fifth worldwide after Paris, New York, and San Francisco. Having partnered with investment group 1686 a few months ago, the designer has new...
Published September 29, 2025 Mango has doubled its presence in Wales, opening its first store in Cardiff at the St David’s Dewi Sant Shopping Centre. Mango The 5,300 sq ft flagship “brings Mango’s collection of contemporary and versatile womenswear inspired by the Mediterranean to Welsh customers” via latest womenswear collections, including clothing, footwear and accessories,...
Horace, the French men’s grooming brand, opened its first US retail location in the newly renovated MOMA Design Store in New York’s SoHo district on Saturday. Within the space, which has been closed for refurbishment since May, Horace will sell 28 of its core products, like its beard shampoos and face serums, as well as...
Finnish lifestyle design house Marimekko celebrates the official opening of a flagship store in Hong Kong on 16 October 2025. Located in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, a bustling epicenter of premium fashion and lifestyle brands serving both local and tourist shoppers, the Leighton Road Marimekko store originally opened in 2012 has found a new, refurbished...
US-based luxury accessories and ready-to-wear brand Michael Kors has announced the opening of a new flagship store on Regent Street in London. Focused on pared-down luxury and sophisticated glamour, the 187–191 Regent Street location reflects the brand’s latest store design concept. US-based brand Michael Kors has opened a new flagship store at 187–191 Regent Street,...
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section. The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool offering “hundreds or even thousands of dollars...