Open - The StoreBook, Volume One
“The World's Best New Fashion Stores”
by Sportswear International
Release Date: March 2008

Cathedrals of Commerce

B-to-B trend-fashion magazine Sportswear International presents the crème de la crème of contemporary retail store design in the last year and features visually driven portraits of nearly 100 outstanding new multi- and monobrand stores all over the globe in the newly released exclusive coffee table-style
book "Open - The StoreBook".

"It is your first-class ticket to a journey around the world of retail," says editor and publisher Klaus N. Hang of this new 192-page publication which contains more than 250 full-color photographs of the stores' interiors and provides valuable information about their locations, brand assortments, size, opening dates, architects and interior designers.

Commentaries come from respected architects, store designers and interior and lighting professionals such as J. Mayer H, Schwitzke Partner, Koncept, Syneo, Philips, L-PLAN, Jeffrey Hutchison, Giorgio Borruso, Material ConneXion's Dr. Andrew Dent, Liuligongfang and Vinyl Group.

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Available at selected bookstores, fashion trade shows, and online www.sportswearnet.com/open-thestorebook.

Further recommendations:

The Denim Bible - Jeans Encyclopedia II (published in October 2006)

Who's Who in Contemporary Fashion 2008 (July 2007)

The Sports Bible, a reference book covering the inextricably linked worlds of sports and fashion, will be released in December 2008.

About: Sportswear International was founded in 1975 as a trade publication for the emerging casual fashion market. Today Sportswear International is the magazine where you find professional information about young, casual, contemporary fashion. The magazin belongs to the German based publishing house Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, has its editorial headquarters in Milan, Italy and operates in offices across the globe. It publishes six global editions per year, along with numerous specials and region-specific titles.