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Department stores bounce back

Written by Daniel P Dykes.

I’ve oft spoken about the ‘death of the department store’. The Wall Street Journal has countered, talking about a bounce back. Visualised as a measure of sales, the death of the department store looks as follows. The question it raises is whether the last point represents a bounce back or simply the reactionary bump that every large object endures having plummeted down to earth.

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Graph via WSJ.

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He was 5 when his teacher wrote on his report card “Daniel can’t sit still.” Taking it as a compliment, he’s been on the go ever since. Having flown over 590,000 kilometres in a single year (2012), he’s done much to push the boundaries of a fashioniser, always looking to fold one extra Tom Ford suit into his set of Samsonite cases and for one extra occasion to tie a tie for. As much an editor-at-large as he is Fashionising.com’s Editor in Chief, when he's not travelling to all the fashion weeks his passports will allow him to, Daniel works on guiding this publication’s editorial and trend views. He is one of Fashionising.com’s co-founders.