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Palace and Burberry Bring Skate Energy to Heritage Tailoring at a New London Flagship

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November 11, 2026

Burberry flagship window, Regent Street, London

The Burberry flagship window on Regent Street, London. Photo by markhillary, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Two very different corners of British style have collided in the best possible way. Palace Skateboards has released its collaboration with Burberry, and the collection did not arrive quietly online. It launched exclusively at Palace’s brand new flagship store on Poland Street in London.

The capsule blends the skate brand’s signature streetwear graphics with Burberry’s heritage outerwear and famous check patterns, bridging two distinct eras of British style in a single drop. It is the kind of pairing that would have sounded unlikely a decade ago and feels completely natural now, as luxury houses continue to court the energy and loyalty of skate and streetwear audiences.

Standout pieces from the collection include a plaid overcoat and a hooded jacket emblazoned with the Palace x Burberry emblem, along with a toile inspired trench coat finished with matching graphics. The trench is the statement piece of the range, taking one of the most recognizable garments in British fashion and running it through Palace’s graphic, irreverent lens.

The setting matters as much as the clothes. Rather than splitting the launch across stockists, Palace kept the release exclusive to its new Poland Street flagship, turning the store opening and the collaboration into a single event for the brand’s London faithful. Flagship exclusives like this reward the local community that built the label, and they give a new store an opening moment that a standard first day of trading cannot match.

For Burberry, the collaboration is another step in speaking to a younger customer without letting go of the codes the house is known for, from the check to the trench. For Palace, it is a statement of how far a skate label founded on wit and graphic punch can travel. When the doors opened on Poland Street, both brands got exactly what they came for.

Cartier Opens Its Largest Western Japan Flagship in Osaka Shinsaibashi

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November 11, 2026

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A Cartier boutique in Aoyama, Tokyo. Photo by Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Cartier has planted its biggest flag yet in western Japan. The maison opened the Cartier Shinsaibashi Boutique in Osaka on Friday, November 6, 2026, a three level flagship inside Quartz Shinsaibashi that now stands as its largest store in the region.

The boutique carries Cartier’s full range of categories, including high jewelry. The ground floor permanently displays high jewelry alongside iconic jewelry, leather goods and accessories, with a private salon space for clients. The second floor offers watches, diamond creations, bridal and fragrance, plus an after sales service counter. On the third floor sits the Residence, a private space for the maison’s most valued guests. It is only the second Residence in Japan, following the Cartier Ginza 4 chome Boutique in Tokyo.

Design is where French and Japanese craft meet head on. Architect Yuko Nagayama designed the facade and the third floor Residence, while Barcelona based g4 group handled the interiors of the first and second floors. Nagayama drew on Osaka’s history as a city of water, building the facade from the flowing lines of the traditional tatewaku pattern under a delicate mesh that recalls guilloché, one of the maison’s own traditional techniques. Inside, a straw marquetry art wall by Lison de Caunes depicts the panther, the house emblem, and a second art wall in Nishijin ori weaving pays tribute to the animals and plants behind Cartier creations.

The opening began a day early. On November 5, the boutique hosted a high jewelry model show, with actors Yui Sakuma and Ayumu Nakajima modeling pieces inside the store. “The moment I put it on, I could feel the value that only high jewelry has, on my skin,” Sakuma said of the experience.

The boutique, at 3 12 14 Minamisenba in Chuo Ward, Osaka, opens daily from 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM.