Until recently he also was president of IGDS, the Intercontinental Group of Department Stores, the world’s largest association of its kind. So many years back, a department store didn’t have restaurants, it didn’t have a cinema like Selfridges has now. A.M.: The competition is fierce, and it’s not just the other big department stores in Europe, and the world, that we compete with. We had more than 400 pop-ups and 650 events in our four Selfridges stores last year, the majority of which were at the Oxford Street flagship. André Maeder of Selfridges Jamie Stoker/WWDWWD: What’s your daily routine at Selfridges in London?