Category: menswear
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Judging begins for the VMRD Retail Design Awards 2022
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, fashion accessories, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, home, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, luxury, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store experience, store layout, store theatre, technology & electrical, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, windowsIt is that exciting time of year again, to begin judging the entrants for the 2022 VMRD Retail Design Awards. From experience as an awards presenter, I know that the ceremony itself is a great spectacle and a place of high excitement and emotion. These awards mean a lot in the retail industry in Asia…
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Remake – circularity for the beauty & indulgence of fabric
Let me introduce Remake to all you fashion followers. This brand lacks nothing in innovation and creativity but has an extraordinary backstory. Remake STHLM started in 2002. It designs and produces fashion that is sustainable for both people and the environment. The materials they use come from gifts donated to the Stockholm City Mission. All…
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.2 Product Assortment Strategies
The Product Assortment. ‘The Crowning of the King’ ‘The Product is King’ or so the old-adage goes. It seems strange to doubt this statement. After all, retail is the process of bringing the product and the customer together. Product is still at the heart of retail, of course, but its role as ‘absolute king’ is…
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What are retail’s 6 ‘Astute Strategies‘
in accessories, analytics, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, fast fashion, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, location strategy, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, pop-up stores, pre-loved, preorder, product suppliers, pureplay, re-sell, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, secondhand, shop of the future, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store operations, store operations audits, store operations compliance, store theatre, supply-chains, sustainability, technology & electrical, town centre planning, value retailing, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operationsCreating a balanced organisation, flexible process flows, and a culture for change will benefit you little, unless you channel these attributes correctly into the brightest opportunities. Every retailer will have different opportunities that will depend on the product and service sectors that they inhabit, the markets in which they operate, their level of ambition and…
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Zara: moving stylishly from linear to lateral processes
Zara: moving stylishly from linear to lateral processes Linear processes push product through the system and into shops. They make money from buying & supply efficiency. Lateral processes consider at every stage the qualitative attributes of the product. They enhance and add-value to the assortment. They make money from selling. From selling more, and selling…
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Spanish Statement: Primark’s Pinnacle of Pre-eminence
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, fashion accessories, fast fashion, footwear, home, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, location strategy, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandisingThe 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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Packing the Hackett Punch: Attending to Vending Detail
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, footwear, in-store services, leisure & sport, luxury, menswear, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingValue 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 enhance…
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Primark Weighs in State Side: Entry of a Fashion Heavyweight
In a statement of international intent Primark fired its first style salvo into the soft belly of the US value fashion market with the opening of its 8,000 sqm Boston flagship. Truly a shopping space full of superlatives, the four floors are home to 530 mannequins, 84 fitting rooms, 73 cash registers and a myriad…
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Personally Speaking: Anthropology for the People
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, footwear, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, menswear, multi-category, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail strategy, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsBy name and now by nature, Anthropology is a retailer for the people. There may be more commercially obvious operators who adorn their assortment with monograms and a monotony of namesakes but Anthropology is carefully personalising its parchment, customising its cushions whilst maintaining its decidedly desirable approach to product design and display. See the image…
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Vintage Velocity: Barbour Not just for the Weekend
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, fashion accessories, footwear, internationalisation, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, menswear, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail strategy, store experience, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingThe new Barbour concept store seeks to redress the misconception that Barbour is a brand that simply supplies the country folk of the world with its quality quilted jacket available in a variety of natural colours but fundamentally green and lined in its familiar check. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase…
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