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Japanese cosmetics giant Kosé opens flagship day spa and retail store

05 Jul 2017 Japan-based Kosé Corporation has opened the first flagship day spa and retail store operated under its luxury brand Decorté.

Maison Decorté, located at the large-scale Ginza Six retail development in Tokyo, features three treatment rooms, each with its own theme and created to match the different treatment concepts offered by Decorté products.

Designed by Dutch product and interior design Marcel Wanders, the three treatment rooms have been named after the environments they seek to create.

The Calm offers a soothing interior with toned-down lighting and a grey colour scheme, while Frozen features mood lighting and crystals, reflecting a feeling of a cool space. The third room, Shield, has floor to ceiling curtains, offering a feeling of privacy and security.

Other spa facilities include a large beauty salon.

The day spa will offer Decorté’s full menu of facials, body treatments and beauty journeys – as well as the signature “ Rejuvenating Holistic Treatment (RHT).

Each RHT begins with a consultation – in order to create a specific, bespoke treatment for the customer – and has been designed to “bring every individual customer incredibly beautiful skin.”

As well as the day spa and salon area, Maison Decorté will include a large retail space.

A spokesperson said: “The Maison Decorté flagship store is an exclusive retail and spa experience haven, set within four themed environments and inspired by the effects of nature on the skin.

“Visitors are taken on a journey of the senses designed to completely renew the mind, body and spirit.”

The Ginza Six, which opened in Tokyo in April 2017, is an upscale retail complex developed by property giant Mori Building.

It features more than 250 high-end boutiques and outlets – as well as a traditional performing art theater, targeting both foreign tourists and domestic customers.

Kosé, owner of the Decorté brand, was founded in 1946 by entrepreneur Kozaburo Kobayashi and is currently one of Asia’s leading beauty product companies.

The group expanded into the European and the North American beauty market in 2014 when it acquired US-based Tarte Cosmetics.