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Viral ‘cool girl’ fashion brand Sisters and Seekers to open exclusive pop-up shop in Manchester

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Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson - 18th October 2024

Online sensation fashion brand Sisters and Seekers is opening a pop-up shop right here in Manchester city centre.

The self-proclaimed ‘cool girl’ label, famed for its sporty athleisure and everyday pieces, usually in soft neutral tones, will be inviting shoppers to browse the collections in person this weekend.

The exclusive pop-up shop is set to open in the Manchester Arndale for one weekend only.

When the Sisters and Seekers brand hosted a similar pop-up in Liverpool earlier this year, the queues stretched into the thousands.

Basically, it’s a very popular brand.

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Inside the Sisters and Seekers Manchester shop, you’ll find the online retailer’s core collections, including their signature women’s and men’s sweat sets.

On sale will be special pieces only available at the pop-up shop, plus other treats, and a chance to win exclusive prizes.

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The pop-up comes in collaboration with their menswear brand Brother & Kin.

Viral 'cool girl' fashion brand Sisters and Seekers to open exclusive pop-up shop in Manchester
Viral ‘cool girl’ fashion brand Sisters and Seekers to open exclusive pop-up shop in Manchester

Sisters and Seekers said: “We’re so excited to bring our Seekers Store experience to Manchester. This pop-up celebrates our brand and community, and we can’t wait to connect with everyone! 

“Join us for a weekend filled with fun, creativity, and fantastic shopping opportunities. Don’t miss out!”

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The brand was founded by sisters Alice and Maisie Jones in 2017 in North Wales, and has rocketed in popularity online.

Sisters & Seekers is associated with many popular influencers and celebrities alike and is also available in select TOPSHOP stores across the UK, with the e-commerce site serving the sisterhood worldwide. The company has huge plans and ambition for growth which is driven by the ever-growing support and hunger for Sisters & Seekers from you, our customer. Watch this space.

The Sisters and Seekers Manchester pop-up shop will be open from 10am to 7pm on Saturday 19 October, and from 11.30am to 5.30pm on Sunday 20 October.

You’ll find it next to the Apple Store in Manchester Arndale.

Early bird tickets which guarantee entry are £5 and the price is redeemable against any in-store purchase.

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There’s also a general admission queue with free entry, which will be operated on a first-come, first-serve basis. Admission is not guaranteed without an Early Bird ticket.

Inside the Sisters and Seekers Manchester pop-up store

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IKEA are hosting a wide range of FREE Christmas activities this winter

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The flat-pack champions are putting on lots of fantastic events for IKEA members and customers to get involved with this Christmas.

What better way to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year than to get stuck in with some festive arts and crafts while spreading Christmas cheer?

Even better still, it’s all free!

IKEA have hosted many free events across the holidays and they’re back again this December running a whole host of holiday craft and creative workshops over at their big Ashton-Under-Lyne branch.

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Although there may be no seats left at Santa’s breakfast table on Saturday, 7 December, visitors who book now can expect to decorate some delicious decorations at their ‘Gingerbread Creations’ workshop from 11:30am to 4pm.

The following day, you can try your hand at sprucing up your own Christmas tree (once again 11:30am-4pm) by making personalised ornaments with the help of their ‘Tree-rific Decorations’ event on Sunday, 8 December.

There’s also a chance you can show off your ultimate seasonal style in another free festive event which is even suitable for those who might not have a creative streak in them.

Start curating your best snazzy outfits and frocks this festive period, with the homeware retailer putting on a weekend set to feature more Christmas jumpers than any fashion week ever has.

If you aren’t all Christmas-sed out, from 13 to 15 December, you can also embrace the festivities by sporting your best seasonal stuff in-store from 9am until 5pm for their ‘Festive Wear Weekend’.

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Once again, all these free festive activities are suitable for everyone, especially families, so why not treat yourself to a nice day out and embrace the holiday season in true Swedish fashion? Quite literally.

You’ll have to act fast if you’re planning on getting involved though, as the Scandinavian furniture company is making way for a total of seven free Christmas activities; their ‘Saint Lucia’, ‘Santa’s Christmas Eve Plate’ and ‘Winter Wreaths for Adults’ workshops are all fully booked already.

Anyone looking to stock up on Christmas activities and squeeze in some quality time in their ever-so-hectic December calendar can do so on IKEA’s website HERE.

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Bents Garden Centre – the Christmas wonderland that everyone, including Molly-Mae Hague, obsesses over

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Don’t ask us when it happens, but there’s a point in life where you favourite place on earth becomes a garden centre.

And garden centres don’t come much fancier than Bents Garden Centre, an enormous sprawl of a building filled with the obvious stuff (like, you know, garden plants) but also so much more.

The Warrington favourite is never more popular than at Christmas, when it turns into a twinkling wonderland and people from across the north west make the pilgrimage.

There are colourful decorations spilling out from every corner, from themed baubles to fairy lights to festive soft furnishings.

Bents Garden Centre does not hold back on its decorating – this year alone there are Alpine dining scenes, a life-size car with presents spilling out of the boot, and an arctic landscape with polar bears and igloos.

That’s on top of a whole display inspired by an ice cream parlour, and others that take inspiration from woodland and The Grinch.

There’s also a winter food market, where wooden lodges sell everything from Yorkshire pudding wraps to bratwurst sausages to beef brisket sandwiches.

Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas. Credit: The Manc Group

In the outside space there are heated dining globes, decorated with plants, blankets and bunting.

Bents garden centre is so popular, it even had a fairly famous visitor a couple of years ago, when Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury popped in for a day out, documenting the whole thing to her (at the time) 1.7m YouTube subscribers.

She proudly showed off a trolley piled high with food-themed baubles, in the shape of cakes, doughnuts, gingerbread men, candy canes, and even a giant pink lollipop.

She said: “Don’t ask me why we’ve never come here before. It’s SO cosy.”

Molly-Mae added: “This garden centre, Bents, in I think Warrington, it’s unbelievable. I don’t know why we’ve never come here before.

“It’s kind of like a farm shop too, they’ve got food and food stalls. I am so excited to come back here with a baby next year, like it’s so special.

“It is quite expensive I’m not gonna lie, to get all the decorations and things, but we’ll keep them each year and reuse them.”

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