Category: menswear
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Maxximum Potential: TK Putting on the Style
in accessories, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, footwear, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, luxury, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store layout, value retailingOn the back of surging sales, TK Maxx plots its path to bargain brand domination with a central London flagship store in the heart of fashionista Covent Garden. The selected assortment tailors to the trendy and the cash-strapped coveters of current labels. New to this store is the Goldlabel departments where only the very best…
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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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Crew Cut: Subtle Snapshot of What’s-in Store
Baited breath awaits the arrival of the much vaunted J Crew flagship store on Regent Street. However for the impatient and curious a subtle appetizer awaits amidst the stylish surroundings of Lambs Conduit, number thirty eight. In keeping with its history of opening specialist stores in its native New York the London store is a…
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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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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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Selfridges Designer Street Room: A Pavement Perspective
As you’d expect there’s been a bit of a media blitz surrounding the appearance of a Skate Bowl in the middle of Selfridges flagship store on Oxford Street. Never one to shy away from innovation it is nonetheless a refreshing story, a positive spin on the department store sector. Whilst the Skate Bowl is sensational…
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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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Great Yarns: The Untold Riches of a Humble Past
The last decade has shown us that brands need to connect very strongly on an emotional level with their customers in order to survive and flourish. New brands arrive with a fanfare of future expectations, but equally valid and valuable are the stories behind the brand evolution and history. It almost seems that the more humble…
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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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Rock ‘n’ Roll John Varvatos: Pinterest Board
John Varvatos, with its synonymous synergy between fashion and rock and roll, replicates its Bowery NYC formula in the more sedate streets of Central London. Conduit Street adjacent to Regent Street is the venue of choice for a three floor flagship store combining all the elements of the US menswear designer’s collection, from lofty…
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