Unveiling a new Hogan to the world during Milan Design Week
The epitome of luxury Italian lifestyle
Founded in Italy in 1986, Hogan was the first retail brand to capture informal elegance in the form of luxury sneakers. A leader in luxury design and product excellence, this much-loved brand amongst Italian consumers wanted to grow its brand awareness globally. To support Hogan’s expansion into new retail territories, we created a new global store concept to help drive international growth.
Celebrating a new brand direction and positioning, targeting fashionable urban socialites, we blended classical Italian interior design cues with cosmopolitan lifestyle experiences, to create a retail concept that exemplifies “new luxury”. Central to the new retail identity design are sculptural interpretations of movement; drawing inspiration from one of the principle figures of the Italian Futurist movement, Umberto Boccioni. These bold ‘Gallery Plinths’ punctuate the luxury retail interior, presenting product in a minimal yet artistic fashion. Throughout the brand space, a series of elevated customer experiences are designed to service and indulge their luxury clientele. This includes a cantilevered marble counter which conceals their couture design service, where consumers can commission bespoke, made-to-order sneakers for the first time. At the periphery of their luxury brand space, experiential ‘Movement Walls’ create an enlivened ambiance with animated light patterns on digital LED mesh curtains, graphically expressing the dynamism of metropolitan life.
Re-launching their brand experience in style
Launched during Milan Design Week, Hogan’s new retail identity also marked the brand’s first foray into augmented reality experiences. Mimicking the journey of a photographer seeking inspiration around Milan’s design hot spots, these digital brand experiences drove awareness and traffic to their new store. Since launching in Milan’s famous luxury shopping destination, Via Montenapoleone, our global retail concept has since been rolled out to a number of luxury retail destinations in Rome, Shanghai and Beijing.
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