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Restructuring at De Bijenkorf: scope of redundancies yet to be confirmed

Amsterdam - Dutch department store chain De Bijenkorf has announced a further restructuring, confirming a report by the daily newspaper Het Parool to FashionUnited. Positions are set to be cut at the company's head office and in its stores. The exact number of redundancies has not yet been disclosed. On Monday, employees and other company...

Fashion |In Pictures

This fashion week in pictures

Bella Hadid was of course everywhere this Paris Fashion Week from the now viral Coperni spray paint video to Victoria Beckham’s Paris debut, to Sacai to Thom Brown to Isabel Marant, no catwalk presentation was complete it seemed without an appearance of the 25-year old American (super) model. But there are more images that remain imprinted on...

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Bijenkorf buying director talks shift from loungewear to more fashionable pieces

De Bijenkorf, the biggest high-end retailer in the Netherlands and a subsidiary of Selfridges Group, is looking at the SS22 buying season with optimism. Not least due to its growing online business, which the company has in recent years expanded to Belgium, France, Germany and Austria. Buying director Ninke Gijzel oversees the buying for the...

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John Lewis steps into Europe with ‘capsule’ shop-in-shops in de Bijenkorf

John Lewis has finally landed in Europe - albeit in a slightly more edited and 'capsule' format. The British department store group has opened its first shop-in-shops with its debut European partner, de Bijenkorf in Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Through its exclusive partnership with the premium department store group, John...