showroom

“We’re trying to find the small details,” Son, the women’s buyer, tells me in the carpeted bottom floor showroom of her store.

This week, the industry opened a new tower of toys, an office complex featuring 65 showrooms for toy companies to showcase their products and discuss design with their wholesale customers.

The elements are then assembled at the back of the showroom, in a skilled process that can take up to six months to complete.

For Thomas, there are never too many bags, as she’s constantly lending them to clients in her showroom, and each bag fulfills its own need, from errands to a night out dancing.

The VDA, Germany's carmaking trade body, has warned that the new rate will "cost the German automotive industry billions annually" – costs which will, inevitably, be added to the amount consumers pay in the showroom.