Nike Town embraces the World Cup cavalcade with team strips, superstar shoes and dazzling celebrity endorsement. Take a tour…
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His Magista is in Town: Nike’s Beast of a Boot
A beast awaits for the unwitting soccer star too big for his boots. The Nike Magista.
In Nike Town there’s only one hero in a store that celebrates many, waiting to catch any passing would-be superstars tempted in by the promise of miraculous skills, fabulous footwork and a future in the fantasy world of football footwear.
The Magista is the new “super-boot” from Nike, worn by the rich and famous from the privileged echelons of the glorious game. With World Cup fever raising the temperature Magista takes centre stage, as a cunningly created giant spider, fresh from the forests of the Amazon, the backwaters of Brazil.
Fluorescent windows, inspired by the supernatural sci-fi B-films of the fifties, give the boot an almost supernatural persona as it promises to “Create” & “Attack” in the best tradition of out-of-this-world encounters.
From weird and wonderful, to gargantuan graphics here is one world superstar who has timed his run to perfection!
How is your World Cup going?
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 cups. Centre stage to Azzurri blue, Italian kit supported by sports tops and casual Ts. Left of centre, Senegal and Ghana add colour and pace from the emerging African climes, whilst the Latin latex of Uruguay adds balance and symmetry of speed with a cool blue show from South American skies.
Beyond the competitive displays the store is emblazoned in pink and blue, across feature displays, merchandise schemes and a play area with a two- toned table football temptation enticing all to compete in an atmosphere of fun and friendship where the sides are neutral and sport for all is the only winner.
Selling the symbols of nationality in a colour concept to embrace the world, Puma pulls off a stunning performance to wow! an adoring crowd of millions.
Are your customers enjoying the World Cup?
Soho Alive & Kicking: The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Soho returning to its roots as the 21st Century Jimi Hendrix experience returns to its streets, for a few weeks at least, with the Jimi Hendrix Pop-up
“People, Hell & Angels” is the latest and most authentic posthumous album from the 60’s guitar hero. And to launch the album a unique Pop-up shop has arrived just off Carnaby Street, in a music launch that captures the life & spirit of that bygone, psychadelic age.
The store is home to the entire Hendrix catalgoue collection, merchandise and memorabilia, but to really soak up the Hendrix experience visit the basement. Here Fender, the instrument of choice for the guitar great, has taken its home for 2 weeks, displaying its range of guitars, with hourly masterclasses on re-creating the Hendrix sound for any budding guitar greats.
A fitting tribute to Soho, and a fitting tribute to Hendrix, brought together again 50 years after.
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Polarizing Opinion: RayBan’s Interactive Experiences
Function or Fashion – The Rayban site cuts through the murk to herald on of the worlds strongest brands.
The world’s most desirable sunglass brand wades in with interactive films and imagery to explain and demonstrate the power and benefit of its polarizing lenses. The user can not only control the view, and the angle to the sun, but then apply and remove the polarizing filter for the user to experience the difference in glare & clarity. And never a snrinking violet the Rayban site shows off its fashion and styles with limited edition styles inspired by the brands rich heritage.
Having trouble communicating your product?
Perhaps you need to show off a little more!
Summer Loved: Kidston Calm & Collected
Cath Kidston captures the calmness and coolness of a British summer like no one else.
The mood and feel is sublimely caught from every polka dot top of the home page to every striped bottom of the blog postings. And whilst every detail is in character the site also packs a commercial punch, with drop-dead, drop-down menus opening up the best seller assortment, summer edits and fashion highlights.
Instagram is chosen as the social channel of choice and works well in warming the spring souls as the stepping stone into the summer season. Cath’s stores involved in the fray as the emotional vehicles preparing for seaside fun. The site also hides some exceptional selling tools, with guides on buying the perfect summer bag, as well as excellent product pages where reviews are stand out features in convincing the coyest of customers to dive in.
Cath Kidston is a brand on top of its game, and looks well prepared to join in the summer fun.
How is your summer shaping up?
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Take a visual tour through “Hackett’s Special Place”
Hackett’s new home is where the heart is.
Join me on a visual tour of the London flagship store
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 game; and it plays to win. A selection of seductive services supply the brand soul, from the Beefeater Gin Bar, quenching the dry thirst, to the tailoring shop, and personalised monogram bar, wetting the appetite for that unique purchase. From top to bottom, a basement boutique for “young Britons” furnished with an ornamental tree whose live branches mark the seasons, a second floor Saturday shoe shining experience, the store pulls out the stops as it starts to create the very British buzz that is Hackett.
Amber Nectar Creates Sticky Windows: RayBan Votes with its Feet
Window-Framed!: Virtual Mirror becomes a RayBan Reality
Innovation & imagination driving brand curiority, footfall and pounds in the till.
Crowds of curious shoppers jostle for a place in front of the virtual mirror outside the handful of Rayban Stores worldwide. Technology that has been a favourite online feature allows the willing to select their favourite classic Rayban shape and apply to their face. Once fixed to the face the frames follow the model as they twist and rotate their face in front of the camera.
The result is magnetic and instant window promotion, and in-store fame for the unwitting participant.
Having trouble getting passers-by to stick to your windows?
Reveal the Mystery: Swatch & Learn
The price of competition,
… may be a Swatch watch but the price of success is repaid many times in customer loyalty and social network buzz. Clever Swatch calculate the cost of a mystery watch giveaway in a sealed box for £25 with any regular purchase.
No watch is worth less in the assortment, so the customer always wins, whilst the transaction rate goes through the roof, around the clock in a win, win situation. The store is turned into one promotion with vibrant graphics, emotive messages and at the centre of it all the mystery boxes in their resplendent spectrum of colour. Commercial success or marketing hype? Only time will tell.
…is your return on investment undervalued when it comes to your competitive spirit?