Category: health & beauty
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Body Beautiful: Selfridges Studio of Serenity
Selfridges opens its biggest ever department, Body Studio, encompassing everything that is exciting and inspirational about London’s leading department store. Never the laggard Selfridges is ahead of the trend as its manoeuvres gracefully to gain a fitness foot hold in the fastest growing area of fashion – Athleisure. The department brings together an intimate…
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Kiehl’s University: Skeletons Alive and Kicking
Swimming against the trend tide of sterile store environments of purity and prepared perfection Kiehl’s comes out all glamour guns blazing in a dynamic and inspiring store concept in the pulsing heart of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Never a brand for understatement Kiehl’s has however largely adhered to the established etiquette of sterility with its…
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Deadly Seduction: Oiling the Sabon Wheels of Success
Bringing your product to life, particularly when its inspiration lays literally in the world’s deadest sea, is an essential for oiling the wheels of success of any toiletries retailer, and entering any Sabon store is certainly an assault on the senses. With truly international inspiration two Israeli brothers combined Aboriginal ingredients and processes with…
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Extra-Sensory Perception: Selfridges Sniff an Opportunity
As part of the recent Hello Beautiful event extravaganza at London’s Selfridges customers were invited to explore the world of personalised perfume at The Fragrance Lab. Individual profiling promised each participant a unique scent, created from the smells and aromas of childhood memories and adult experiences all combined, bottled and labelled with love. Dedicated window…
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Hidden Benefit: Beauty on a Different Level
Something beautiful happened on the way to Carnaby Street. Benefits abound in this destination cosmetic store which hides its beauty bushel beneath the streets of London. The inviting staircase leads to the hidden delights of the basement bars. From brows to nails, from body waxing and spray tanning to blow drying and champagne sipping…
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Splendid Isolee: Courting the In-Crowd
The re-invention of the department store, a place that selects the best from the rest, finds another incarnation in the distinctly desirably shape of Isolee. A generation on from the ground-breaking Colette, beckoning the Parisian partisan into a world of the coolest brands – the bijoux boutique, beauty emporium and couture cafe combination shows…
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Kaleidoscope Kiko: Colour with Confidence
The Kiko Kaleidoscope engulfs the assortment of sunglassed shoppers, adding sparkle and excitement, converting bright young things into dark heroines. Colour blindness soon recedes to an appreciation of order and authority in regimented rows of ranges and categories coordinated and segmented by size, colour and collection. Kiko carefully controls its space avoiding the chaos…
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Hidden Benefit: Beauty on a Different Level Pinterest Gallery
Something beautiful happened on the way to Carnaby Street. Benefits abound in this destination cosmetic store which hides its beauty bushel beneath the streets of London. The inviting staircase leads to the hidden delights of the basement bars. From brows to nails, from body waxing and spray tanning to blow drying and champagne sipping no…
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Cool Cat in the Capital: Tiger Earns its Stripes
Tiger has been slowly prowling the streets of the world for a while, with its irresistible proposition of impulse product, low prices and beautiful, attractive designs. Its latest incarnation is its first attack into the streets of London with a bright bold yet typical store on Tottenham Court Road. The assortment creams the impulse element…
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Wicked Company: An Invitation to Indulge
The White Company No longer Whiter than White. Invitations abound and temptations await around every corner as The White Company urges its customers to wallow in the beauty of its assortment and experience first hand the softness, the quality, the fineness and the sheer irresistability of its products. A formal invitation seems hardly necessary with…
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