{"id":16260,"date":"2016-09-05T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=16260"},"modified":"2016-09-05T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:26:26","slug":"doutzen-kroes-named-hunkemoller-brand-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/doutzen-kroes-named-hunkemoller-brand-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Doutzen Kroes named Hunkem\u00f6ller brand ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch underwear label Hunkem\u00f6ller went both local and international when it came to finding its new brand ambassador: top model Doutzen Kroes.<\/p>\n

Last week, the frequent Vogue cover girl \u2014 she\u2019s been featured on five covers for the magazine\u2019s German edition, six for Vogue Japan and 38 for Vogue overall \u2014 former Victoria\u2019s Secret model, mother of two and 31-year-old Dutch native presented her first Hunkem\u00f6ller collaboration, \u201cDoutzen\u2019s Stories\u201d to journalists and bloggers in Berlin. Clad in a lace-accented black slip \u2014 one of the new collection\u2019s key items \u2014 Kroes and Hunkem\u00f6ller creative director Zo\u00eb Price-Smith gave a sneak preview of the romantically provocative range.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe historical influence is huge [and] on trend,\u201d noted Price-Smith, pointing to corsetry and caging constructions, a lavish use of eyelash lace and embroidery, and styles that include anything but basic: transparent high lace briefs, kittenish pink-and-black balconette bras, garter belts and a bra with a high lace neckline.<\/p>\n

Doutzen\u2019s Stories will be available online starting Oct. 27 and in Hunkem\u00f6ller\u2019s current 800 stores in Europe, the Arab Emirates and India as of Oct. 31. Prices range from 14.99 euros to 44.99 euros, or $16.70 to $50.15 at current exchange. Airport stores are part of the brands long-term plans as it bids to compete with US superbrand Victoria’s Secret.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew Hunkem\u00f6ller long before they knew me,\u201d the model said, recalling her infatuation with the intimates brand when she was a girl in Holland. And indeed, the label continues to have its main following with a younger fashion audience.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe provide a fashion product at an affordable price to a young audience, from roughly 18 to 29 years of age, with the biggest group aged 18 to 24,\u201d Hunkem\u00f6ller chief executive officer Philip Mountford told WWD. Assortments are updated every seven weeks, and the self-claimed bra specialist also offers a particularly broad size range that goes from 30 to 44, in AA to H cups. But \u201cthe big bulk of our business is from 32 to 36, though we do sell a lot of Ds and Es,\u201d Mountford noted.<\/p>\n

In the last seven years, Hunkem\u00f6ller has grown to a business of a half a billion euros, or $557.6 million.<\/p>\n

The long-awaited news of who would succeed Sylvie Meis in the brand ambassador role was made public in Berlin for the simple reason that Germany is Hunkem\u00f6ller\u2019s largest market, said Mountford. The brand has almost 350 stores in Germany and plans to bring that number up to 500 in the next two years. In general, 108 stores will be opened in 2016, with an ambitious retail roll-out plan of 120 stores a year thereafter in the brand\u2019s existing markets. The strategic plan, he summed up, is to open 550 new stores on top of the existing 800.<\/p>\n

Online is a main sales channel, and Mountford noted the company was \u201cone of the first to get into real social media. Over 70 percent of our Internet sales are driven through social media,\u201d he reported. \u201cAnd we have 1.5 million active members on our app, which is also a digital member card.\u201d<\/p>\n

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