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About Me
- Lydia_Rose
- Hi, thank you for checking out my blog, on here I post my own photos and write about trends I am observing within VM, also anything that interests me and most recently adding photos of things I buy. I am a recent graduate having studied Fashion Marketing and Communication at Nottingham Trent University and work as a visual merchandising manager...Please if you wish feel free to follow my blog or contact me.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Posers
Mannequin inspiration from Interior Design Magazine:
Taken from: http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6652122.html
Taken from: http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6652122.html
Innovative Interior
In Vino Veritas
For Madlab's LEED-accredited partner Petia Morozov, considering the environment is an ethical position. "It's about taking whatever's already in the waste stream and extending its life in a playful form," she explains. A prime example of that philosophy is Le Vigne, a New York wine shop designed by Madlab in collaboration with the artists' collective Spurse, of which she's also a part.
The budget was $40,000 for the 600-square-foot space. "When we realized that there wasn't money to start with raw materials, we very quickly shifted to the idea of secondhand furniture," she continues. The next stops were the warehouse-size Goodwill and Salvation Army stores of Newark. After three trucks returned to Manhattan—filled with dozens of wooden dining sets, coffee tables, and dressers, $600 worth—everything was sanded, primed, and painted white. Legs, drawers, and tabletops, disassembled and reassembled on-site, created three displays for the shop's specialty, Italian wine. The centerpiece, a 26-foot-long abstraction of Italy, was especially helpful to Le Vigne's owner, a former sommelier who categorizes his wine according to region.
"That shape wasn't predetermined," Morozov adds. "It's the sort of happy accident that happens with us, having confidence that things will come together." A similarly lucky surprise was the 35 square feet gained in gutting the 1902 space, a former travel agency: There were 6 inches of paneling on the walls and 4 inches of carpet on the floor.
Taken from: http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6702061.html?industryid=48740
For Madlab's LEED-accredited partner Petia Morozov, considering the environment is an ethical position. "It's about taking whatever's already in the waste stream and extending its life in a playful form," she explains. A prime example of that philosophy is Le Vigne, a New York wine shop designed by Madlab in collaboration with the artists' collective Spurse, of which she's also a part.
The budget was $40,000 for the 600-square-foot space. "When we realized that there wasn't money to start with raw materials, we very quickly shifted to the idea of secondhand furniture," she continues. The next stops were the warehouse-size Goodwill and Salvation Army stores of Newark. After three trucks returned to Manhattan—filled with dozens of wooden dining sets, coffee tables, and dressers, $600 worth—everything was sanded, primed, and painted white. Legs, drawers, and tabletops, disassembled and reassembled on-site, created three displays for the shop's specialty, Italian wine. The centerpiece, a 26-foot-long abstraction of Italy, was especially helpful to Le Vigne's owner, a former sommelier who categorizes his wine according to region.
"That shape wasn't predetermined," Morozov adds. "It's the sort of happy accident that happens with us, having confidence that things will come together." A similarly lucky surprise was the 35 square feet gained in gutting the 1902 space, a former travel agency: There were 6 inches of paneling on the walls and 4 inches of carpet on the floor.
Taken from: http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6702061.html?industryid=48740
Pick of the Bunch
My favourite windows from today:
Accessorize - a simple idea of hanging trees and hearts makes a cheerful and colourful window.
Topshop - more card tree cut outs from Topshop, making another simple window
I am really liking the Reiss window this season, the small silver baubles hanging down makes a really interesting window. Once again a success from Reiss.
Accessorize - a simple idea of hanging trees and hearts makes a cheerful and colourful window.
Topshop - more card tree cut outs from Topshop, making another simple window
I am really liking the Reiss window this season, the small silver baubles hanging down makes a really interesting window. Once again a success from Reiss.
Christmas Shoppingham
Here's a sneak peek at what the stores of Nottingham are doing for their Christmas windows.
Kitsch - a vintage clothes store. With gorgeous vintage furniture pieces and quirky merchandising this store has a unique feel in-store. The windows are more a winter one than Christmas, with falling leaves, logs and gnomes. I liked the handwriting on the blackboard advertising the boots - an example of a good display on budget.
Zara - I must have photographed this hundreds of times! But I like the coiled wire, its simple at effective.
G-Star - an innovative window, combining the illustration trend with the recent trend of using porclain plates on walls. Making a simple montone window that catches the eye.
Oasis - cut outs as I have mentioned before are being used in VM, you can just about make out in this photo the cut-outs of candle-light lamps.
Vivienne Westwood - the simple use of a tree and baubles sets the christmas theme.
More baubles used here at Diesel, though given a tougher image with studs and chains.
Jigsaw uses trees again with fake snow, making a pretty traditinal christmas scene.
Links here cleverly brings in the trend for antlers in its VM, playing with the back drop in the background.
Jack Wills - brings the window outside with the use
Kew - using oversized presents in their window
I simply just liked the styling of these Karen Millen mannequins - its not too christmassy!
Oasis again - this time using a black fence/gate
CC here using a wire chandelier - simples, on trend and has a christmas feel with the small bauble stream hanging off.
Kitsch - a vintage clothes store. With gorgeous vintage furniture pieces and quirky merchandising this store has a unique feel in-store. The windows are more a winter one than Christmas, with falling leaves, logs and gnomes. I liked the handwriting on the blackboard advertising the boots - an example of a good display on budget.
Zara - I must have photographed this hundreds of times! But I like the coiled wire, its simple at effective.
G-Star - an innovative window, combining the illustration trend with the recent trend of using porclain plates on walls. Making a simple montone window that catches the eye.
Oasis - cut outs as I have mentioned before are being used in VM, you can just about make out in this photo the cut-outs of candle-light lamps.
Vivienne Westwood - the simple use of a tree and baubles sets the christmas theme.
More baubles used here at Diesel, though given a tougher image with studs and chains.
Jigsaw uses trees again with fake snow, making a pretty traditinal christmas scene.
Links here cleverly brings in the trend for antlers in its VM, playing with the back drop in the background. 
Jack Wills - brings the window outside with the use 
Kew - using oversized presents in their window
I simply just liked the styling of these Karen Millen mannequins - its not too christmassy! 
Oasis again - this time using a black fence/gate
CC here using a wire chandelier - simples, on trend and has a christmas feel with the small bauble stream hanging off. 
*Star Light Star Bright*
With Christmas approaching all stores now are focusing their displays on this festive holiday. A popular choice it seems is to use stars as a motif, wether they are vinyls on a window or paper stars crafted and hanging amongst the products in the windows; many stores are using them this season.
Examples below are New Look, Hobbs and Flannels, in Nottingham:
All in white and silver, this is perhaps a budgeted yet effective method in doing Christmas windows this year.
Examples below are New Look, Hobbs and Flannels, in Nottingham:
All in white and silver, this is perhaps a budgeted yet effective method in doing Christmas windows this year. Construction Trend in Action
Over the summer I said I was spotting what I called the 'construction' trend, this is the use of all things associated with manual labour being used in visual merchandising. From step ladders, mdf to rusty chains and hooks.
Here are some examples of the trend being put to use in shop windows. All Saints was also a great example for this, but sadly I couldn't get any shots of it :( But take a look at these examples from Bench and Kitsch, in Nottingham.
Notice the use of metal cages, concrete blocks, wire and bricks etc - these all come under what I call the 'construction' trend. Along with 'typewriter' font which we are seeing everywhere with the return to old machinery and traditional forms of production.
Here are some examples of the trend being put to use in shop windows. All Saints was also a great example for this, but sadly I couldn't get any shots of it :( But take a look at these examples from Bench and Kitsch, in Nottingham.
Notice the use of metal cages, concrete blocks, wire and bricks etc - these all come under what I call the 'construction' trend. Along with 'typewriter' font which we are seeing everywhere with the return to old machinery and traditional forms of production. Saturday, 28 November 2009
Tokujin Yoshioka
In London, Tokujin Yoshioka, Furniture Designer of the Year in 2007 Wallpaper* Design Awards, has applied his ethereal vision across the new Camper store on London’s Regent Street. Taking an altogether more natural approach, he's decked out the store in his now trademark material petals, finishing the theme off with his Bouqet chairs for Moroso.
See examples of his work below:
See examples of his work below:
United Nude flagship store, Amsterdam
A gorgeous, clean and simple modern layout. Modern and contemporary, a fresh approach to a shoe store. I like the shoes in glass boxes, part of the museum trend. Comme des Garcons Trading Museum, Tokyo
Whilst the creative minds at Comme des Garcons have never shied away from pushing the innovation envelope, the latest venture from Ms Kawakubo and her team looks set to raise the bar an extra few inches.
Kicking off the much-imitated pop-up trend with the Comme des Garcons guerrilla stores of 2005, the Tokyo-based house has since developed a whole host of innovative ways to engage. As such, this winter, Comme des Garcons have stepped their groundbreaking retail agenda up another gear, with the ‘Trading Museum’ concept store in Omotesando, Toyko.
Taking the well-trod museum format and artfully combining it with a more established Comme des Garcons retail platform - the Trading Museum is set to offer Comme des Garcons customers a unique opportunity to browse curiosity-lined cabinets amid rails of some of the fashion world’s most covetable items.
Running alongside an edited selection of Comme des Garcons key pieces, items from British designer Christopher Nemeth, shoes from Daita Kimura and made to measure Comme des Garcons shirts - there will also be an exhibition of hand-blown glass objects from Pieke Bergmans; a series of vintage Stephen Jones hats and a selection of vintage Comme des Garcons pieces from the past forty years - to name but a few of the attractions on show.
Hailed as a space in which the art of ‘Just looking’ will be encouraged - the evocatively titled Comme des Garcons Trading Museum looks set to see in a welcome new era of retail engagement.
http://www.wallpaper.com/gallery/fashion/comme-des-garcons-trading-museum-/17051515/23927#nav
Kicking off the much-imitated pop-up trend with the Comme des Garcons guerrilla stores of 2005, the Tokyo-based house has since developed a whole host of innovative ways to engage. As such, this winter, Comme des Garcons have stepped their groundbreaking retail agenda up another gear, with the ‘Trading Museum’ concept store in Omotesando, Toyko.
Taking the well-trod museum format and artfully combining it with a more established Comme des Garcons retail platform - the Trading Museum is set to offer Comme des Garcons customers a unique opportunity to browse curiosity-lined cabinets amid rails of some of the fashion world’s most covetable items.
Running alongside an edited selection of Comme des Garcons key pieces, items from British designer Christopher Nemeth, shoes from Daita Kimura and made to measure Comme des Garcons shirts - there will also be an exhibition of hand-blown glass objects from Pieke Bergmans; a series of vintage Stephen Jones hats and a selection of vintage Comme des Garcons pieces from the past forty years - to name but a few of the attractions on show.
Hailed as a space in which the art of ‘Just looking’ will be encouraged - the evocatively titled Comme des Garcons Trading Museum looks set to see in a welcome new era of retail engagement.
http://www.wallpaper.com/gallery/fashion/comme-des-garcons-trading-museum-/17051515/23927#nav
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