Rachel Rodi Personalizes the Company’s Heritage Store in Honor of
its Hometown
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
Manhattan Beach-based brand Skechers
USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX) recently commissioned renowned mosaic artist
Rachel Rodi to create two intricate stained glass mosaics in tribute to
its hometown. The mosaics were installed along the newly renovated
heritage Skechers store, and were unveiled to the community at its grand
opening celebration this week.
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Skechers Unveils Mosaics in Tribute to the Manhattan Beach Community (Photo: Business Wire)
“Manhattan Beach has been at the heart of the Skechers brand throughout
our entire 26-year history – from our first days designing utility shoes
in a beach house, to our current corporate offices,” said Michael
Greenberg, president of Skechers. “This incredible community has
fostered and supported our growth, every step of the way – and we wanted
to thank its residents with vivid art pieces that reflect the remarkable
beauty of this wonderful town.”
Located in the cultural center of Downtown Manhattan Beach, the
large-scale mosaics total 230 square feet of outdoor art depicting the
city: an abstract interpretation of Manhattan Pier’s sunsets on
Manhattan Avenue, and an underwater gallery highlighting the region’s
unique sea life on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, in honor of the Roundhouse
Aquarium.
“This is the first dual-sided mosaic installation that I have had the
pleasure of creating on a retail store, and once I met with Skechers, I
instantly understood why they call Manhattan Beach home,” added Rachel
Rodi, who attended the unveiling. “It was an opportunity to share two
personal stories about Manhattan Beach: to foreshadow its iconic pier
down the hill, and celebrate the local sea life that is celebrated in
the town’s Roundhouse Aquarium.”
Mr. Greenberg established the Harrison Greenberg Foundation Roundhouse
Aquarium Beautification Project (http://roundhouseaquarium.org/)
and is working with the City of Manhattan Beach to revitalize the town’s
landmark Roundhouse Aquarium at the end of the pier, restoring its
renowned architecture as it transforms its facilities into a
groundbreaking interactive aquarium for future generations.
Just a few feet from its original location in 1994, the Company’s
original store has also been updated to reflect Manhattan Beach’s iconic
look – with a newly expanded exterior designed to appear as three
separate shops to maintain the town’s village atmosphere. Now
approximately 4,800 square feet, the new flagship store will be state of
the art – a mid-century modern audio/video showcase offering dedicated
Skechers lifestyle and performance shops, a fitting room for the brand’s
growing apparel division, and diverse collections for men, women and
children.
The Skechers heritage store featuring Rachel Rodi’s mosaics is located
at 1121 Manhattan Avenue, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. Patrons can view
Rodi’s famed art collections at www.rachelrodi.com
and http://www.rachelrodi.com/blog/.
About Skechers USA, Inc.
Skechers
USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX), based in Manhattan Beach, California, designs,
develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle footwear for men,
women and children, as well as performance footwear for men and women.
Skechers footwear is available in the United States and over 170
countries and territories worldwide via department and specialty stores,
2,570 Skechers Company-owned and third-party-owned retail stores, and
the Company’s e-commerce websites. The Company manages its international
business through a network of global distributors, joint venture
partners in Asia and the Middle East, and wholly-owned subsidiaries in
Canada, Japan, throughout Europe and Latin America. For more
information, please visit skechers.com and follow us on Facebook
(facebook.com/Skechers) and Twitter (twitter.com/SkechersUSA).
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include,
without limitation, Skechers’ future domestic and international growth,
financial results and operations including expected net sales and
earnings, its development of new products, future demand for its
products, its planned domestic and international expansion, opening of
new stores and additional expenditures, and advertising and marketing
initiatives. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of
forward-looking language such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,”
“estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “will be,” “will continue,”
“will result,” “could,” “may,” “might,” or any variations of such words
with similar meanings. Any such statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected in forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause
or contribute to such differences include international economic,
political and market conditions including the challenging consumer
retail markets in the United States; sustaining, managing and
forecasting costs and proper inventory levels; losing any significant
customers; decreased demand by industry retailers and cancellation of
order commitments due to the lack of popularity of particular designs
and/or categories of products; maintaining brand image and intense
competition among sellers of footwear for consumers, especially in the
highly competitive performance footwear market; anticipating,
identifying, interpreting or forecasting changes in fashion trends,
consumer demand for the products and the various market factors
described above; sales levels during the spring, back-to-school and
holiday selling seasons; and other factors referenced or incorporated by
reference in Skechers’ annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2017. The risks included here are not exhaustive. Skechers
operates in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New
risks emerge from time to time and the companies cannot predict all such
risk factors, nor can the companies assess the impact of all such risk
factors on their respective businesses or the extent to which any
factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Given
these risks and uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Moreover,
reported results should not be considered an indication of future
performance.
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Contacts:
Skechers
Jennifer Clay
310-937-1326
jennc@skechers.com
Source: Skechers USA, Inc.
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