Category: ladies fashion
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Underground Connection: A New World in Old Street
In an area of London not short of innovation, and with retail delights and surprises bursting out of every industrial alley way and distressed doorway, the newest players are moving underground, taking residence amongst the newsagents and cobblers of Old Street Station. Just arrived on the Northern line, F is the new pop-up store from…
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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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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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“UFO lands in NYC!”: Uniqlo’s Universal Appeal
Uniqlo is on an international mission from its Japanese heartland to become truly an international fashion destination. It is already the 4th biggest fashion retailer after Inditex, H&M and the GAP. The new 5th avenue store is as impressive a brand statement as you could ever wish to see. The store is spread over…
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Boardwalk Catwalk: H&M Turns over a New Leaf
Seven stories of summer heaven await the seasonal shopper at H&M, Oxford Circus. In another nod to the far away football festival in the jungles of Brazil H&M brings the fashion forest to Europe, adorning its store with a flourish of leaves and garlands of green. Every floor is home to a showcase display greeting…
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Amazon River Island: Blowing the Whistle on the World Cup
No stone unturned on the perpetually flowing river-bed of life at River Island. At a time when ladies fashion stores may have turned to licking their wounds from a month fighting the football distractions of the Brazilian jungle, River Island embraced the colour and culture of the region, putting up a typically topical performance.…
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Creative Souls of Fashion@ ASOS’s Fashion Finders
The mother of online fashion becomes a cradle for the daughters of today’s trends and looks. In the ASOS Fashion Finder what was editorial and schedules has become responsive and dynamic in what is becoming the most informative and engaging relationship between any retailer and its customers. Revolutionising and re-mixing the magazine formula the…
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Primania: Primark’s Personal Promotion Machine
E-commerce is not for every retailer, but social marketing certainly is. Primark has experimented with online selling in collaboration with ASOS, but with an average item value so low the economics just didn’t add up. So how can the Primark retail powerhouse engage with the digital world and sell to a wider audience? Along…
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Nike+Club: Running on Emotion
Find your way to the top storey of Nike on Oxford Street and find the Nike+ Club, a haven for all things feminine. As the tourist throng recedes floor by floor the atmosphere here is rarified, intimate and inviting. Nike leads the field in womens fitness and time spent here re-enforces not just the…
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