Designing joy into luxury retail with Sybarite

This Summer, Sybarite Co-founder Simon Mitchell, was a guest speaker on the WGSN podcast, Create Tomorrow, where he joined WGSN’s Executive Editorial Director Bethan Ryder and Insight Senior Strategist Laura Saunter ⁠to discuss how retail brands are exploring the value of IRL experience and shaping a new more meaningful retail landscape.

“Creating a sense of discovery, is almost like one of our ten commandments of retail design. It’s intrinsic, it’s part of the process, it’s what, in the end, the customer craves. It’s that hope of newness that will be imparted by their visits, it’s the promise. You know, dare I say, the delivery time and time again of that newness is what brings the customers back time and time again. You know, retail at the end of the day is theatre.”

Listen to the episode on Apple, Anchor or Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6NCh9NmrGLilL91H0oLxcI?si=T7IWYe-xRYe8vWIzIl6ivw&nd=1