Europe’s biggest shopping mall Westfield London is now open

It is official – Westfield London is open! With 265 shops and 49 restaurants it is set to excite shoppers and diners in England’s capital. The dining offering is something completely new to the UK with no McDonalds or plastic trays – just great food, healthy food, new concepts, michelin starred restaurateurs, a street of 17 restuarants, 13 culinary counters in a shared dining environment – so as well as a retail feast, Westfield London offers a shoppers a never ending culinary feast.

A NEW LIGHTFOR LONDONLondon’s retail landscape changes forever as Westfield London opens its doors to shopperstoday after almost four years in the making.Westfield London is an architecturally stunning showcase for five anchor stores: Debenhams,Next, Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser and Waitrose. This iconic building, with its undulating glass roof, is home to more than 280 luxury, premium andhigh street retailers from more than 15 countries, together with 47 places to eat.

The WestfieldLondon site in W12 spans nine postcodes and is the largest city-centre shopping mall in Europe.Fourteen retailers today make their UK debut and dozens of others are creating stores that willset new standards in retail design.More than 21 million people are expected to visit Westfield

London each year – some 60,000 a day. The centre will employ 7,000 people, which together with substantial investment in transportinfrastructure, will contribute to the regenerative impact Westfield is having on Shepherd’s Bushand the surrounding communities.Attention to great service is paramount: a concierge and valet team have been trained to 5-starhotel standard, and will help create an environment where shoppers’ needs come first.

New York Openings: Frye, adidas SLVR, Carlos Campos

Frye (Soho) - Civil War-era bootmaker still going strong, will have you rekindling those horse-country fantasies.
● adidas SLVR (Chelsea) - Men's shop from eco-friendly adidas line.
● Carlos Campos (Lower East Side) - Rising-star designer drops trim men's line on Orchard.

Luxe is back for good…and profit – Honey Replica Handbags – Brands Designers Handbags And New Products

Luxury is back on fashion as predicted in a May report by Bain & Company. The document advanced that global luxury goods sales would increase 8 percent in 2011 in part because of renewed demand in the U.S., where department store sales are increasing and Europe, where tourism is strong (Bain expected the large Japanese luxury goods markets to recover soon from the effects of its recent earthquake).

Also, a Northeastern American University report showed earlier this year, many affluent Americans sidestepped the recent recession and, according to David Arnold, publisher of the luxury magazine Robb Report, the wealthy are no longer as embarrassed about flaunting their wealth as they were in 2009.

The Bain report also cited continuing growth in emerging markets like China, Russia, Brazil, and the Middle East. The Chinese market “skews very young (the average Chinese luxury consumer is around 30, whereas the average western luxury consumer is around 55),” the paper explains. “Thus, what happens there often affects what will happen in older (i.e. European and American) markets later.”