Here is my Cityscape article on online perfumery Planet Prestige: Planet Prestige covers all the bases. As always: this article is copyrighted so please don’t post it elsewhere! [EDIT: Planet Prestige’s Berlin store has closed down!]
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Finally an exciting new retailer has come to Friedrichstrasse's Q205 shopping centre - @freiraumofficial opened its doors yesterday and they have an intriguing retail concept: niche and indie brands from the fashion, accessories, beauty, food and lifestyle sector can present themselves on some 500 sq m of stylish store space. The rest of the retail experience is fully digitalised: instead of paying for your purchases in-store and taking your shopping home you scan the respective QR code, complete the transaction in the #freiraum app or online store and get your purchases delivered to your doorstep. The Freiraum store (the name roughly translates as "free space" or "space for freedom") is located in three adjoining retail units on the basement floor of the shopping centre (if you're familiar with the layout of Q205: they're next to the Rewe City and opposite Tee Gschwendner, extending towards Q206). A fabulous selection of curated (and regularly changing) niche brands, mostly fashion and accessories but also cosmetics (and, incidentally, some interesting spirits as well 😉): beauty brands include US luxury indie brand @orpheus.skin (Pic 6), Berlin-based customised cosmetics brand @aveandedam (Pic 7) and the amazing @schwarzlose_perfumes. There's a cafe, @oromo_roastery, and the company is also planning special events, brand launches and networking events, to allow brands and their customers to connect in the real world. I'm so happy that Q205 seems to finally get on its feet again; ever since the adjoining Q206 luxury department store closed down a few years ago this part of Friedrichstrasse has been struggling. Hopefully the innovative (and very cool!) retail concept of Freiraum will help to change that. Who knows, it might even bring back memories of the old @quartier206's glory days... #newretail #retailreinvented #digitalretail #onlineoffline #retailtrends #trendhunting #berlin #quartier205 #friedrichstrasse #conceptstoreBrandenburg-based artisan flower jam manufacturer @von_blythen is an annual fixture at the @weihnachtszauberberlin Christmas market, and they're one of my favourite booths there! #vanblythen produce the most delicious flower and blossom-based jams, marinades, sauces, syrups and, new this year, edible flower-pepper/salt blends. Everything is hand-made with organic and locally-sourced ingredients and every year I spend a ton of money there 😍. Tonight I treated myself to the Cinnamon-Lavender Marinade (which I'll use as a sandwich spread!) and the Violet Jam which has a lovely delicate violet aroma. Van Blythen has no offline store in Berlin, their products are available at various Christmas markets, online or at their shop/café in Schöneiche bei Berlin, a small town in Brandenburg. #artisan #roseblossomjam #christmasmarket #gendarmenmarkt #berlinA seasonal #bentobox from @ginza_mitsukoshi for my last evening in #tokyo. #lovemesomebento #bentoboxesrule #japanesefood #foodporn #hotelroomdinnerA brilliant and thought-provoking new exhibition at @moriartmuseum in Roppongi: "Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow" takes a closer look at what the medium to long-term future of our world will (or might) look like. Exhibits included prosthetic limbs, robot puppies (Pic 8), architectural models of sustainable futuristic cities floating in the sky or on the water (Pics 2, 3 & 4) plus examples of already existing bio-adaptive buildings, visions of lab-grown foods, digitally created fashion, a digital interpretation of Chinese e-commerce giant @alibabagroup's ecosystem (including online customer interactions, deliveries, financial transations and information flow) in Alibaba's home city of Hangzhou (Pic 5); examples of bio-derived and intelligent building materials that adapt to changes in temperature or humidity (Pics 6 & 7), a model of 3D sushi printing machine, an intriguing thought experiment in which an AI algorithm is put on trial (the premise: the algorithm is so complex and advanced that it acts like a human being and should therefore be treated as such); a digital data monolith (Pic 9) and a truly frightening AI facial recognition room where a multitude of cameras scanned the visitors that entered, zooming in on individual faces (Pic 10, which features me). Obviously the exhibition couldn't cover every aspect of such an enormous thematic scope - I would have liked to have seen more exhibits on #biohacking and #bodymodding, for example - but the sheer range of ideas and concepts that were presented was exhilarating. I took lots of pictures and will be doing some serious follow-up googling over the next weeks 😀. #moriartmuseum #roppongi #exhibition #futureandthearts #urbanplanning #citiesofthefuture #urbandevelopment #tokyoToday's Japanese artisan chocolate haul from @themeadow_jp in Shinjuku's #lumine2 department store! Actually, it's an Asian haul because I also bought bean-to-bar chocolate from the Philippines (!) but in this post I'll be focusing on #themeadowjp's amazing selection of domestic craft/niche chocolates. Pic 2: bean-to-bar manufacturer @minimal_beantobarchocolate from Tokyo; their bars are made with beet sugar and the 70% variant I selected features cocoa beans from Tanzania, in a collaboration with Tokyo-based breast cancer charity @maggiestokyo. Pic 3: four bars from #kongensweets; the company behind this brand, Yawataya Isogoro from Nagano, is actually a spice manufacturer who branched out into bean-to-bar chocolates this year. Yellow: yuzu; purple: perilla; green: shiso; red: the famous shichimi togarashi chilli powder. Love the retro-looking packaging! Pic 4: Choko Reko, a tiny raw chocolate brand from Saitama; (I selected the lucuma & caramel variant), the break patterns of these exquisite hand-crafted bars are beautifully embossed. Pic 5: @foochocolaters from Hiroshima; the sister brand of @ushiochocolatl; Cha+ is a hojicha-infused milk chocolate. Pic 6: Philippine brand @aurochocolate from Calamba City in Laguna. Auro sources its cocoa beans from small farmers in the Davao region of the Philippines. The Meadow Shinjuku is a fabulous store, it opened this March: the first international outlet of the Portland (US) based retail chain. Parent company @bittermansaltco is a salt manufacturer but in their retail stores they also sell fresh flowers, chocolate, spirits and cocktails bitters (what a great combination!). In addition to the Japanese/Asian niche chocolates the Shinjuku store also sells selected US and international bean-to-bar brands, a selection ofJapanese and international craft spirits and gins, a wide range of cocktail bitters and different salts. Plus freshly cut flowers. I've found a new favourite store in Shinjuku 😍. The Meadow is located on the street level/store front side of Lumine 2 department store in Shinjuku JR station. Highly recommended! #tokyo #shinjukushopping #beantobar #japanesechocolate #shinjuku@blueseal_icecream from Okinawa: The yellowy scoop is chinsuko ice cream (chinsuko is a sweet/salty Okinawan kind of crumbly shortbread cookie), the lilac-coloured one is beni-imo (purple yam). Both were delicious but my favourite is the #chinsoku! #blueseal has a small café in #ebisugardenplace; swipe left for a pic of some of their other flavours! @vanessaikou #okinawa #icecream #autumn #ebisu #tokyo #japanTokyo illuminations with @vanessaikou 😀 #ebisu #winter #tokyo #ebisugardenplace #illuminations #japanSome of the staples that I buy at @daiso_official whenever I come across one of their stores in Asia: stationery, travel goods, kitchen stuff, storage gadgets plus the occasional novelty item 🤣. This basket contains almost 40 items (many of them really small, like the adorable New Year's mouse stickers and seals. I also like to stock up on gifts when I'm at a Daiso). You do the math (and don't forget to add the 8% VAT) 😉. Daiso Giga Funabashi rocks!! #lifegoals #awesomeness #daisojapan #daiso #daisofangirl #tokyo #japan#fujisan #fuji #nocloudcover #holymountain #wow #joyful #blessed #hakone #japan
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