Category: ladies fashion
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Freestanding Fashion: Tesco oFF & Running
An established attraction within Tesco stores the familiar face of F+F now has a fascia, proud and prominent in the Earls Court flagship store. A mezzanine with meaning. Womenswear takes the stage with a friendly functional fit-out clearly segmented in formal casual and lingerie. The mezzanine situation provides a welcome firebreak from the frantic food…
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One Seagull Makes an Evisu Summer: Hand Painted Pocket Poetry
The intimate environs of Boxpark create the perfect setting for the individual art of the exclusive denim brand. Obsessive in detail the manufacturer maintains its personalised proposition through the option of hand-painted pocket designs from its iconic seagull to a variety of signature signs. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of…
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Pitch Perfect: Sports Direct Playing the Field
Pitch Perfect: Sports Direct Playing the Field If you want to see some clues as to what the new Mike Ashley House of Fraser might look like, then a good starting point are the new Sports Direct/USC/Flannels superstores. One of the latest is at Lakeside where a 10,000sqm sports and lifestyle experience has taken shape.…
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Nudie Jeans: The Antidote to Mass Merchandising
If you want to experience something which is so far away from mass merchandising as it is possible to be then look at Nudie Jeans, and if possible, visit one of their stores. Nudie Jeans is a Swedish clothing brand originating in Gothenburg, founded in 2001 by Maria Erixon, a former employee and AD…
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“Commercial Retail” Overstocking & Under-Valuing the World?
I remember a comment from a best practice range review from some years ago. Having spent a couple of days reviewing the client’s own assortment and comparing with detailed visuals of best practice and competitor ranges, the chairman sighed and leaning back in his chair exclaimed “Who buys all this stuff?” At the time…
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John Lewis: The Revolutionary “Loved & Found”
Still my retail highlight of the year for many reasons was to see the opening of the new John Lewis at the Westfield London extension. But whilst the popular headlines latched onto the innovative and original idea to train the store personnel with actors so as to be able to engage and sell more successfully,…
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Maxximising Potential: TK Putting on the Style
TK Maxx is now so central to so many customers’ buying plans that it’s difficult to remember the huge strides it has taken over the recent decade to propel its proposition into the mainstream and its results into the realms of high street fashion fantasy land. It’s original UK arrival was so American and…
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Spanish Statement: The Primark Pinnacle of Pre-eminence
The last decade has seen the rise of Primark as a tour de force in the world of value fashion as it strides from the UK and Ireland across Spain, Germany, Italy and now to the United States. It is easy but incorrect to brand Primark as simply low prices. These it certainly has through…
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House of Hackney: passionate people producing amazing experiences
To step off Shoreditch High Street into the House of Hackney is a journey into such a wonderful world of sumptuous colour and texture that a visit to Narnia itself would be no more astounding. And that is not to sleight Shoreditch but to extoll the voluptuous virtues of this home emporium that it so…
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Sustainable Selfridges: Natural Partner for a Material World
Time never stands still for Selfridges. The dawn of every day is reason enough to energise the store with new messages, products and brands to perpetuate its reputation as one of the world’s most exciting retail experiences. When seasonality subsides for a second Selfridges fills the void with self-generated events bringing every aspect of…
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