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The Best Luxury Stores
The Best Luxury Stores is a quality mark awarded annually to the best Russian boutiques. The Russian Buyers Union together with the industry leaders selects the awardees and publishes The Best Luxury Stores book listing all the winners.
Award Ceremony

The Union brings together Russia’s top retailers in premium segment for the Best Luxury Stores Awards which takes place every November in the Lotte Hotel Moscow and features a gala-dinner, fashion shows, star performances, and the award ceremony. The Best Luxury Stores awardees include TSUM Moscow, Bosco di Ciliegi, Aizel, Babochka, VIP Group, LeForm and other top stores of Russia.

The Forum

The Best Luxury Stores Forum is the business part of the event dedicated to panel discussions and talks given by the industry leaders. In 2017 the expert pool included fashion guru Aliona Doletskaya, Konstantin Andrikopulos (Bosco di Ciliegi), Helen Sac (WGSN), Alexander Bichin (Aizel), Rodion Mamontov (LeForm), Alexander Shumsky (Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia), Marina Kazakova (M&W School), Laura Montrasio (Mantero), fashion connoisseur Elina Halimi, Vesna Grbac (Tatras), and Marie-Christine Statz (Gauchére Paris).

The 2017 edition was attended by more than 500 buyers and store owners as well as guests from 50 Russian regions and cities as diverse as Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Perm, Stavropol, and Yekaterinburg.