Lucy & Yak to open Chester store


The opening comes as Lucy & Yak builds up its bodily retailer portfolio, with two extra retailers because of launch earlier than Christmas. “Proper now we’re our UK presence and discovering cities and cities that provide the best area for us,” it mentioned.

The brand new retailer has a softer, extra muted pink shopfront, to align with the constructing laws and historic nature of the world, quite than its signature vivid pink. The inside includes a pastel color palette and picket furnishings. Lucy & Yak is working with a neighborhood mural artist for mural portray to the partitions behind the until level.

The shop is totally accessible from avenue stage and contains 5 altering rooms and one accessible altering room.

Lucy & Yak presently has 11 different UK shops in places together with Bristol, Norwich, Nottingham, Canterbury, Manchester, Cardiff and Exeter (pictured). Its flagship retailer is in North Laine, Brighton, and it has a sustainability flagship retailer in The Lanes, Brighton.

“These twelve shops mirror Lucy & Yak’s ambition to construct a stronger bodily presence throughout the UK, providing extra alternatives for face-to-face reference to the Yak neighborhood,” it mentioned in an announcement.

Every store serves as a Re:Yak hub, supporting the model’s circularity initiatives – together with a buyback scheme referred to as PreLoved – and offering area for purchasers to recycle, restore or upcycle their garments.

“The groups are presently working laborious to deliver extra localised occasions and neighborhood meet ups to our little pink retailers,” mentioned Lucy Greenwood, co-founder of Lucy & Yak.