Our regular feature celebrates memorable scenes, moments, launches and campaigns related to the global aviation and travel retail sphere.
AUSTRALIA. Today’s selection comes from Sydney Airport Terminal 1 where as reported a dazzling new luxury precinct was inaugurated on Thursday alongside Heinemann Australia’s luxury beauty, fashion and accessories store.
The zone includes 17 designer stores with two more (Cartier and Versace) to follow later this year. Our pictures show the extraordinary Gentle Monster boutique, which already shapes as becoming a blockbuster success story.
The South Korean luxury eyewear brand, founded in 2011 by Jay Oh and Hankook Kim, is renowned for its vision of ‘weird beauty’ through ‘high-end experimentation’. And that vision is certainly to the fore in a store that is stopping people in their tracks thanks to the presence of a kinetic art installation called ‘The Giant Head’.
This show-stopping piece allows viewers to experience mysterious emotions through its indecipherable facial expressions. The two-metre high robot is designed to blur the lines between retail and art space and to ponder the future of the human-robot relationship. ✈
