Category: luxury
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Wicked Company: An Invitation to Indulge
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, home, luxury, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingNo 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 irresistibility of its products. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase…
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Hackett’s Special Place: Popular Pinterest Gallery by Demand
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, food & drink, footwear, in-store services, internationalisation, kids fashion, leisure & sport, location strategy, luxury, menswear, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingHackett’s new home is where the heart is. Moving 200 yards along Regent Street has taken the lifestyle retailer a million miles to a three level elegant emporium combining space to breathe with intimate corners and surprises around every eloquent elevation. Flagship brand distinction, engagement on an emotional level is the name of the Hackett…
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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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Elvis & Kresse: Fighting Fashion Fire with Fire
Elvis & Kresse: Fighting Fashion Fire with Fire So much of the exciting retail scene of today is coming from people with a real passion. The passion is not necessarily for retail initially but comes as a natural evolution of a wider passion for a philosophy, for values and for life. Elvis & Kresse is…
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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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Le Labo: Scenting an Opportunity
Le Labo is one cool, expensive perfumery retailer. Its origins are in France – hence “The Lab” – and it draws its inspiration from the halcyon days of perfumeries of the 19th & early 20th centuries. However Le Labo is not just about exquisite scents & smells but is very cleverly put together. As…
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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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Packing the Hackett Punch: Attending to Vending Detail
Value is not a reality of price alone but the perception of benefit over price. Perception in itself can be the clear communication of reality or the addition of emotional attributes that ultimately constitute brand value. For a retailer like Hackett in a competitive swell of quality menswear brands using every available tool to…
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Fashion, Fusion & Follies: Selfridges Studio Experience
Building excitement and new physical experiences is transforming the third floor of Selfridges London into a must-see destination as it unveils a series of lifestyle studios to entice & enthral its adrenaline driven customers. The Design studio is the latest area to be unveiled and at over 1000sqm presents itself a home for innovative…
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