Author: Tim
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Personal Spaces: A Meeting of Monsoon Minds
Monsoon and Accessorize, although long time co-inhabitants of the same family home, have rarely and inconsistently been seen out in public together. However lifestyle changes and a move towards the evolution of an intimate third place for women have resulted in a more common and strategic crossing of paths, with not only shared store…
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Debenham’s Designer Diet: Fashion Food for Thought
Fashion week has stimulated the creative juices to flow through the hearts and veins of London’s window dressers and creative merchandisers. From monotone and monochrome to coordinated costumes and colour explosions the windows of the city vie for visual supremacy and a slice of the passing traffic. More ingenious than most is the clever…
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Passion Fruit: Lululemon Squeezing Life to the Full
Shops don’t just sell and retailers don’t just retail in the passionate world of modern consumer brands. Talking the talk has moved to walking the walk and now to dreaming the dream, where assortment and retail store portfolios are simply the essential baggage required for living the life of the brand. Yoga inspired Lululemon…
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Tiger in your tank: Pinterest Gallery
Tiger, with its impulse offer and low prices, is thriving and turning up not only in secondary locations and low-rent backwaters but on some of the most expensive streets in London. After a trial in Tottenham Court Road, the Danish destination has opened its doors on Oxford Street, rubbing shoulders with value giants such as…
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal: Tune in to Tiger
Flying Tiger is not just another Rock ‘n’ Roll animal Tiger is not just one of the coolest brands around, with an amazing assortment of quirky, original and beautifully designed products, but is embracing a holistic brand message through its involvement with world music. Always certain to surprise is a rich vein in…
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Tiger Earns Its Stripes: The Cat In Search of the Cream of London
Natural survivors evolve and expand beyond their traditional habitats widening their historical distribution. Tiger, with its impulse offer and low prices, is thriving and turning up not only in secondary locations and low-rent backwaters but on some of the most expensive streets in London. After a trial in Tottenham Court Road, the Danish destination…
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Should VM be “as good as possible?” or “as good as it needs to be?”
As a firm believer in the mantra “Things should alway be as good as possible” I have always been a little unnerved by those who work by the alternative principles of “things only have to be as good as they have to be” The problem with the second way of viewing visual merchandising standards is that…
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Soho Alive & Kicking: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Soho returning to its roots as the 21st Century Jimi Hendrix experience returns to its streets, for a few weeks at least. “People, Hell & Angels” is the latest and most authentic posthumous album from the 60’s guitar hero. And to launch the album a unique Pop-up shop has arrived just off Carnaby Street,…
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Monki Mania: Refreshing Fashion in a Stagnant Sea
The sum is often bigger than the parts, although in the case of Monki it is the fascinating and intriguing parts that very much bring the Monki world to life. On the one hand the carefully conceived store concepts from the Forgotten Forest where shoppers walk on a floor of flowers, becoming lost in…
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Irregular Heartbeat: The Life & Soul of Footwear
In the heart of Carnaby Street, at the centre of Soho is a footwear store that embodies and embraces the entrepreneurial spirit and ethos of excitement of the area like no other. Irregular Choice will set the pulse racing of anyone on the prowl for individual and exciting footwear. 600 footwear ideas a year come…
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