Category: store experience
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Putting the Pieces Together: Jigsaw’s Picture of the Future
Within a jewelled cupcake’s throw from Selfridges an emporium of class and style opened its three doors to the fine people of Duke Street. A Jigsaw solution. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays & customer experiences. Classic retail spaces with forever lessons.…
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Legs 11: Selfridges Denim Devolution takes Shape
Selfridges destination denim stretched its legs and stepped out as the World’s largest dedicated denim studio. No idle fascination this 2500 square metres throws a curved ball at the conventions of category collections with Selfridges claiming jeans from £11 to £11,000 in a range of over 11,000 pieces. Denim journeys unfold past acrobatic mannequins…
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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. Inspired by the denim decoration of 1950s America where cotton…
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Diplomatic Dichotomy: Puma Pins its Colours to the Gender Mast
Between craftsmanship and sportsmanship, allegiance and acceptance, Puma playfully picks its way between its iconic Italian heritage, an empathy with the new world order of soccer and the need to be an all encompassing world-wide, world cup commercial entity. Priority position passes to the replica kit of the competing nations in the king of…
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The Streets of London – Primark paving Oxford Street with gold!
OMG for HMV. 9000sqm of fashion oxygen was injected into the East side of Oxford Street with the opening of the retailers second flagship store in central London on the site of what was once HMV. One year on, and with an extension looming the Primark band-wagon shows little sign of slowing, and why should…
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Penneys from Heaven: In Dublin Fair City, Girls are so Pretty
No excuse for any girl not to look her best with the recent multi-million refurbishment of Penneys in central Dublin. For Penneys in Ireland read Primark for the rest of us, but the fashion, fun and fabulous prices are familar to all. However here Penneys show another facet with the structural work not only…
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Lululemon Squeezing Life to the Full: Pinterest Gallery
Shops don’t just sell and retailers don’t just retail in the passionate world of modern consumer brands. Talking the talk has moved to walking the walk and now to dreaming the dream, where assortment and retail store portfolios are simple the essential baggage required to living the life of the brand. Yoga inspired Lululemon is…
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Hidden Benefit: Beauty on a Different Level Pinterest Gallery
Something beautiful happened on the way to Carnaby Street. Benefits abound in this destination cosmetic store which hides its beauty bushel beneath the streets of London. The inviting staircase leads to the hidden delights of the basement bars. From brows to nails, from body waxing and spray tanning to blow drying and champagne sipping no…
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And the Brand played on…merchandise and music in several movements.
And the Brand played on…merchandise and music in several movements. Whether composing displays or composing ditties, coordinating the blues, or singing them, the artistic side of retail life has invariably struggled to make its musical ends meet. “Art for Art’s Sake Money for God’s sake” are a relevant, if somewhat dated testament to…
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Fender Casting: Vendor-Varvatos in the Stratosphere
Jon Varvatos lays its musical card on the multi-channel table. Cool by association as the brand immerses itself in the world of music. Green Day collaborate on fashion campaigns whilst Paul Weller performs exclusively in the Bowery Store. What the retailer lacks in genuine personality is more than made up for as it rubs up…
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