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Editor’s Note: Once in awhile we come across something noteworthy and we want to share it with our readers. However, due to a variety of reasons (it’s too new to obtain research, it’s in a far-away land that we can’t quite reach, etc.) we don’t quite know what to do about it other than tell you “Hey. This is amazing and you should know about it.” Show & Tell is a collection of those recent things.

1. The Limited is launching new plus-size brand, Eloquii, on Wednesday, October 26. The online-only (for now) collection will offer plus-size women the same classic, chic, professional attire that has made The Limited famous. Interestingly, they partnered with plus-size fashion bloggers Gabi Gregg of GabiFresh.com and Nicolette Mason of NicoletteMason.com for research. We’re excited to see what this brand has to offer and we’re happy that plus-size women are getting more choices in finding the fashion they deserve. Learn more from Racked and brandchannel.

2. Fashion retailer, Paul Stuart invited bloggers and stylists to create the brand’s four Madison Ave. window displays. The one guideline was to incorporate tweed. Esquire‘s “Need for Tweed” window, created by fashion editor of Esquire, Nick Sullivan, features a plaid cityscape. See for yourself.

3. Parisian brand Ladurée comes stateside with its first retail store on Madison Ave. Now we don’t have to fly to Paris for a fix, a short trip to NYC might be in our future to visit the macaron maison. Read more here and here.

4. Simple and smart, Eye Candy in Belgium uses product packaging as part of the store design. Color-blocking the boxes and utilizing them to display the glasses is genius. Check out more here.

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With amenities named Yobot, Studiyo and Dohyo, this is not your typical NYC hotel. Recently opened in New York’s Theatre District, Yotel brings its white-on-white, future-funky Eurostyle to The Big Apple.

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I got in. Or rather, I got a ticket. My friends in Chicago somehow won the “lottery,” and got four tickets. And they asked me to join them. So, you’re thinking, I must be referring to a U2 concert, or a World Series game. Not exactly. I’m talking about tickets to a restaurant. But it’s more than a restaurant. It’s NEXT.

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NEXT is the brain/lovechild of celebrity Chicago chef Grant Achatz. The press and praise have been pouring in since NEXT opened in April 2011. After training under the legendary Ferran Adria at the dearly departed El Bulli in Spain, and then starting his own tour de force at Chicago’s Alinea, Mr. Achatz and his partner started NEXT as an entirely new endeavor. In order to avoid the age-old restaurant conundrum of stale menus and bored chefs de cuisine, Achatz dreamed up NEXT to be a rotating, ever-changing blank canvas on which he and his cooking staff can create an entirely new genre and theme every three months. It’s a culinary marketing cadence calendar, with menus developed, tested, and debuted on a temporary basis, then retired for the next. Get it? NEXT.

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During our Monday morning studio meeting, our VP of Visual Strategy inspired the team with a presentation on the unique and ever-changing storefront of Galeria Melissa in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Galeria Melissa sells very trendy plastic footwear and is located on Oscar Freire street (São Paulo’s Rodeo Drive). The interior is futuristic with globe-style fixtures “growing” out of the ceiling. Shoes are encased in clear bubbles and there’s a plastic cactus zen garden out back.

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