Throughout the company's history, we have always presented our collections in contemporary settings and have developed, updated and expanded our stores. Both in Germany and internationally, our stores can always be found in central locations that are easily accessible or in attractive shopping centres where the focus in on fashionable brands. We consider it very important to ensure an inviting store design and to create high-quality brand stores that offer our customers a truly special shopping experience.
Since building the first international flagship store, the so called "Weltstadthaus" in Frankfurt am Main in 1988, we have designed many of our stores to a world-class architectural standard. These elegant buildings in prime locations reflect our superior standards and communicate the high quality of our products to the outside world. Their architecture blends harmoniously into the cityscape and attracts visitors with its unique style.
We currently have a total of six international flagship stores , located in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna, where there are two. Behind the construction of these iconic buildings are world-famous architects with progressive ideas, who have created distinctive buildings to fit in with the architecture of each city. These creative minds include the architects of RKW Rhode, Kellermann and Wawrowsky (Frankfurt Zeil, 1988), Professor Gottfried Böhm (Berlin Tauentzien, 1995), Herbert Müller-Hartburg (Vienna Mariahilferstrasse, 1998), Richard Meier (Düsseldorf Schadowstrasse, 2001), Renzo Piano (Cologne Schildergasse, 2005) and David Chipperfield (Vienna Kärntnerstrasse, 2011).