My first visit to Bicester Village, a luxury shopping outlet near Oxford, was 20 years ago, not long after the village opened in April 1995, with 13 boutiques and one café. Next year the retail ...

After leaving Alexander McQueen, we wandered over to Gucci and Paul Smith, with stops at Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, and Vivienne Westwood in between. This wasn’t Madison Avenue or Paris’ Avenue Montaigne.

It’s a bright but perilously cold February day in England and I’m shivering at the back of an orderly queue made up predominately of Chinese tourists. A security guard is keeping an eye on the crowd ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Traveller, Londoner, trend-spotter. With over six million visitors in 2016, Bicester Village in Oxfordshire is—by some large ...

It was the most gorgeous of gifts. Not long ago, a thoughtful British husband decided to pamper his busy wife with a wardrobe reinvention. He booked a personal stylist at Bicester Village, the luxury ...

A global technology company will soon be the latest to open a store at a designer shopping outlet in Oxfordshire. Dyson, ...

A luxury skincare brand has opened its first-ever outlet store at a designer shopping village in Oxfordshire. Aesop, renowned for its cult-favourite apothecary-style sink condiments, has opened its ...

Photo Caption: Bicester Village outlet mall near London. Photo Courtesy Bicester website. Shopping for designer brands is a huge part of travel for newly rich emerging economies, and for foreign ...

The company has approached agencies about the brief, which is understood to include the advertising for each of its shopping village locations. Creativebrief is working with Value Retail on the pitch ...