Tag: London
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS | SELFRIDGES
Best in show by a country mile! Because Selfridges really said if there is a prize I am taking it. I AM TAKING ALL THE PRIZES. I would imagine sitting round the table in the visual merchandising strategy meeting for Christmas, no ideas were off limits. It came, it ate and left NO CRUMBS. Selfridges,…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS | CARTIER
If fantasy was a watch word, Cartier reinvented the wheel; because few brands evoke fantasy like they do every freaking Christmas season and it is always, always magical. It understands proportions and its relation to emotions so very well. As a single brand that does items in the really, really, really high price range for…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS- ANNABEL’S MAYFAIR
If ever there was an award for places that absolutely smash Christmas each year, Annabel’s would take the top prize every single time because I am mesmerised by what they do with the front of the private members cub, smack in the middle of Mayfair where precious few would deign to enter. Bear in mind…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS – DIOR
Oh Dior… I don’t know that I like this. Yet I know that I don’t not like it. On the one hand, it feels lazy because what we have here is a massive butterfly thingy on the façade of the store warmed it up with gold and hope for the best. On the other hand,…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS – LOUIS VUITTON
At first when I saw this, I wasn’t too sure about it; I was in two minds, because I thought they played it safe, but then the more I stood to look at it, the more a theme emerged at play. I like the clean lines of it without it being austere, it is still…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS – HARVEY NICHOLS
The merry go round that is Christmas. This is too high octane to be Christmas it is more suited to New Year’s Eve. I think it’s the colours, actually I know it’s the colours. Christmas wonderland which is reminiscent of the winter wonderland not five minutes from the store but where is the warmth? It’s…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS- LIBERTY
Liberty. Oh Liberty. I always feel sorry for Liberty because it has those pokey windows and not a lot of real estate to play with in comparison to say Harrods or Selfridges or Harvey Nics. But I think this is where it could lean (for fuck sake with that expression but it works) into that…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS – RALPH LAUREN
This is not so much a window as it is a store front because brands, especially with their stand alone stores are often at a disadvantage somewhat because of the range of products to play with; as opposed to the department stores that can flex their muscle which is why I am always harder on…
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CHRISTMAS WINDOWS – HARRODS
We’ve been here before. Where’s the story? What is the narrative? This feels cold as cold as the gold and clinical, sterile even. Yes we know; Harrods is the home of extraordinary luxury, unparalleled if you ask me, and it will not be bested on that front by a mile, but this is a Christmas…