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bcd-W WEEKLY CURRENT
brands, commerce and design connect worldwide.
Relaunch Issue · October 21, 2026
WHAT'S NEW
bcd-W Is Now a Weekly Magazine
Brand, Commerce, Design and Connect, from the cities of Asia and the Americas. The relaunch is still under way, and you're reading the first letter.
bcd-W is being rebuilt, and we're doing it in the open. Menus, lanes and pages are still changing, so expect the magazine to look a little different from week to week while the work goes on.
Here's what's settled. From now on, bcd-W publishes as a weekly magazine in four sections:
Brand. Where a brand, a person or a city meets another.
Commerce. Where business actually moves in a city: market entries, retail landings, deals and investment.
Design. How it was made, and the new ideas behind it.
Connect. Events, fairs, conventions and exhibitions, the places where brands and people meet.
Read the name and you have the sentence: brands, commerce and design -connect Worldwide. City isn't a section any more. It's the lens on every story. Worldwide, our daily desk, files news across those four lanes. This letter, the Weekly Current, picks the best of it every Wednesday.
bcd-W is a digital magazine operated by IWBFD Studios.
WORLDWIDE
This week's picks from the daily desk, one from each lane.
BRAND · Singapore
G-Dragon's label brings Woody and Buzz to Clarke Quay
PEACEMINUSONE, the label founded by G-Dragon, brings its Disney·Pixar Toy Story collaboration to Southeast Asia for the first time. It's staged at CQ @ Clarke Quay with Singapore's Mighty Jaxx and runs until 11 November.
Why it matters: A Seoul label, a Hollywood cast and a Singaporean maker shake hands on one floor, and the whole handshake runs Asia to Asia.
COMMERCE · Shanghai
NikeSKIMS picks Shanghai for its first room in China
The Nike and SKIMS joint venture opened its first physical destination in China at HKRI Taikoo Hui. It's a months-long residency, built with local touches, that runs into February 2027.
Why it matters: A brand this new has few stores anywhere, so choosing the city for its first room in China is the strategy.
DESIGN · New York
Moncler Turns Fifth Avenue Into a Living Room
Moncler's largest store worldwide fills two levels and 23,680 square feet of the General Motors Building. A made-to-order atelier and a second LoveFrom collaboration share the same roof.
Why it matters: The flagship becomes a room that makes and personalises rather than only displays.
CONNECT · Detroit
A Detroit museum turns Anna Sui's world into rooms you walk through
Cranbrook Art Museum opens 'The World of Anna Sui', a retrospective of the New York designer that stays on view until 28 February 2027.
Why it matters: A designer's label meets a city's cultural institution instead of its shops, and becomes something to read like an artist's body of work.
More commerce this week
Mexico City: H&M Enters Mexico Through a Mexican House
And where people meet this week
Singapore, 21–23 October: Singapore enlarges the table where Asia decides its next gathering
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FROM IWBFD STUDIOS
✦ SIM ETERNAL CITY
The same question, in the future tense: what can a city become?
Sim Eternal City is a long-term project from Paul at IWBFD Studios: a four-ship model of an "18-minute city" for a world reshaped by climate and technology. The magazine records cities as they are, and this project asks what they could become next.
THIS WEEK Picturing a Future City in the Waters Off Red Hook in New York
Chapter one of the New York story imagines a floating city off Red Hook, Brooklyn, where climate-displaced elders and humanoid neighbours live and work together, close to the ferries, port and hospital already there.
WRITE WITH US
Is your city missing from this map? We're building a network of local contributors across Asia and the Americas: people who live and work inside the cities they write about. City writers, talents, partners and friends are all welcome. Tell the story from where you are.
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