Category: visual merchandising
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The Monaco Book Club: Faded Fashion & Yesterday’s News
Taste is not an option for the ever over-performing Club Monaco. Store and stock in faded harmony as sun-bleached beauty is applied to fixtures and fashions, to windows and wardrobes. Yesterdays news is scattered with precise abandon, in picture frames, focal walls and POS where clean & corporate is disguised as disarray and disparate.…
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Urban Inspiration: “Your Coolest friend’s new place!”
Wandering around Urban Outfitters, for its customers, is like wandering around your coolest friend’s new pad – their bedroom, their living room, their record collection, their kitchen and most importantly their wardrobe. The defining attraction of Urban Outfitters is its distinct personality expressed through its often random but always eclectic mix of fashions, home accessories, music…
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We are all Retailing in a Hostile Environment?
When it comes to turning your stores into selling machines, one solution rarely fits all. If you sell through wholesale or are in partner with franchisees you’ll know only too well about the challenges of working in a “hostile environment.” “Hostile” of course covers a multitude of sins, and it has to be said, sometimes…
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Take a tour around Uniqlo “the UFO that landed in NYC!”
The new 5th avenue Uniqlo store is as impressive a brand statement as you could ever wish to see. The store is spread over 4 floors which are used to create a jaw-dropping entrance where the full store height is awash with colour and excitement.
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“UFO lands in NYC!”: Uniqlo’s Universal Appeal
Uniqlo is on an international mission from its Japanese heartland to become truly an international fashion destination. It is already the 4th biggest fashion retailer after Inditex, H&M and the GAP. The new 5th avenue store is as impressive a brand statement as you could ever wish to see. The store is spread over…
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Fashion Forever: Walking in a Value Wonderland
Forever21 has become folklore for fun and budget fashion in its native US, and now throughout the UK, Europe and the Far East after its recent and rapid expansion. Although its original stores were only 100sqm its concept has blossomed to become “Fashion Wonderlands” of over 9000sqm. These huge stores are segmented into a…
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Take a Video tour – “Gone Fishing!”: Satisfying Eddy’s Eclectic Taste!
Fish’s Eddy feeds the growing appetite for vintage, individual cookware products as an antidote to modern mass commercialism and product standardisation.
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“Gone Fishing!”: Satisfying Eddy’s Eclectic Taste!
In one of the strongest retail sectors in the world which has spawned such benchmark companies as Crate & Barrel, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn with their precision space planning & slide rule store presentation, there is another homeware retailer whose apparently chaotic store environment masks an equally shrewd commercial strategy. Fish’s Eddy feeds…