Loewe at Chengdu IFS — CASA LOEWE Chengdu (2023)

Chengdu IFS hosts the third CASA LOEWE in mainland China, a 460-plus-square-metre store combining fashion, art and design objects.

The venue

Chengdu IFS is a mixed-use retail complex on the Chunxi Road shopping district in central Chengdu, with a department store podium topped by towers. Its ground floor carries luxury fashion and accessories tenants across a continuous indoor concourse, where units open directly onto circulation that links the mall's entrances and upper levels. Foot traffic is steady through the day and heavy at weekends.

How the space was used

The expanded store occupies a ground-floor unit at Chengdu IFS, replacing and enlarging the brand's earlier space on the site. Open-plan selling areas carry menswear and womenswear, bags, small leather goods, soft accessories, fragrance, eyewear and jewellery, with artworks and design objects placed between displays, and furniture forming seating points along the route through the unit.

Why it works here

A luxury mall podium positions a store like this alongside comparable tenants and delivers an audience already shopping for high-end fashion. The ground-floor frontage lets the interior, visible from the concourse, act as the display. Room enough for artworks and furniture turns a retail unit into a sequence of rooms.