\n\tAlejandro Porras, founder and chief executive officer of Alohas, said in a statement that Paris<\/a> has been a \u201ckey city\u201d for the brand since it launched in 2015.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe response to our first store confirmed the connection between the brand and the Parisian audience,\u201d Porras noted. \u201cOpening a second location, this time in Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s, allows us to consolidate our presence in the city while reaching a new community.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBack in the States, Alohas lands in San Francisco for the first time with a new store at 2208 Fillmore Street. Both this new store and the second Paris location now offers the Barcelona-based footwear brand\u2019s range of sneakers, sandals, ballet flats and more.<\/p>\n \n\tFor Porras, San Francisco is a \u201cgreat representation of the type of city where Alohas wants to be: international, creative and open to new ways of consuming.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe United States is one of our strategic markets<\/a>, and this opening is an important step in our expansion, but also an opportunity to build a closer relationship with our local community and allow them to discover Alohas in a much more complete way,\u201d Porras added.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tInside the Alohas Paris store in Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tESTELLE LEFEVRE<\/p>\n \n\tThese openings expand the brand\u2019s physical presence in key markets and follow its recent arrival in Vienna, where it opened its first store in Austria.<\/p>\n \n\tIn May, the company opened its second permanent store in New York City and its first pop-up in Los Angeles. Located at 400 Bleecker Street in NYC\u2019s West Village neighborhood and at 1410 Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Calif., the two stores marked a big moment for the brand, which had only just arrived in the U.S. with its first physical location in 2025.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cNew York is the most important city in the world for us in terms of online sales, and is where we have most customers,\u201d Porras told FN in an interview in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tInside the Alohas Paris store in Saint-Germain-des-Pr\u00e9s.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tESTELLE LEFEVRE<\/p>\n \n\tIn terms of other U.S. locations, Porras noted that he has been looking at storefronts in Miami, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Boston and San Francisco \u2014 the latter of which was not confirmed at the time of the interview earlier this year.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe will continue to keep opening stores, but it\u2019s a matter of having the patience to find the right opportunity and the right spot,\u201d the CEO said in May. <\/p>\n![\"Alohas,](\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-wwd-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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