Tag Archives: Fashion

The Target Chalet

Department stores are famous for many things, but having an incredible team of in-house creatives is rarely one of them. Target, a mid-market department store in America, have bucked the trend – building a strong in-house marketing and advertising department. One of the most interesting things they’ve created recently is TargetChalet – a home-from-home for Target athletes. (Cheers, Jamie)

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Republic spaces

Entrepreneurial artists and designers have found e-commerce sites like Etsy and Bonanza invaluable when building up their brands and selling their stuff. But as far as having physical spaces for showing off their work, options so far have been limited.

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Pre-internet shoe

Diesel is trying a bit of reverse psychology by asking fans to refrain from posting on social media sites and sharing on Instagram. The prize? A shoe from 1993 which the brand proudly promotes as low-tech. To win it, fans have to go cold turkey on Facebook posts for three days or quit Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for two days. Twenty fans will win the shoe.

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Baddest shoes

How did footwear made by a Quaker firm in the quiet English village of Street, Somerset, become the ‘baddest’ shoes in Jamaica? (Nice one, Jamie)

‘Clarks in Jamaica’ is the latest book by DJ and designer Al Fingers, providing a colourful take on Clarks’ celebrated status on the island – where for decades they have ruled as the ‘champion shoes’.

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‘I still love NY’

Sebastian Errazuriz’s studio was paralysed after the hurricane. Unable to work and tired of watching the horrible disaster unfold on the news, Errazuriz decided to design something to help raise much-needed relief funds. This idea occurred to him after seeing the water line marked on the walls of the flooded galleries in New York’s Chelsea art district. (Nice one, Jamie C)

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Best night ever

Online retailer ASOS has launched its Best Night Ever Christmas campaign, featuring shoppable videos where you can click to buy clothing and instantly pin items to your Pinterest profile. Find out more here: http://youtu.be/JhetSyL_GO0

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Wear now, buy later

To maintain their premium image in India, Levi’s Jeans has had a great idea. Rather than reduce prices, they’ve partnered with local banks to offer payment plans so that people can pay for their jeans in three monthly instalments at 0% interest. There’s been terrific industry and consumer response, with lots of PR and buzz.

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Box clever

Beijing-based designer, Yoshimasa Tsutsumi, has created a pixellated interior using long cubed boxes for the Diesel Shibuya store.

The space is effectively moveable and many of the products are actually embedded in the wall: push and pull to your heart’s desire. This is a great way to customise a retail space and showcase objects of all shapes and sizes.

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Webistore

Piperlime, the e-retail site known for its smart blend of brands, price points and inspiring style guidance, is making a move to bricks and mortar.

The New York store will engage savvy shoppers by bringing aspects of its website into the real world through novel merchandising interpretations – for example a ‘trend wall’ will present the freshest looks and act as a ‘homepage’ for the store. Perhaps for the first time, an online brand has translated their audience’s online habits and expectations into something meaningful and useful in-store – an interesting development for retail.

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VIP retail

Selfridges has developed a novel concept in its personal shopping suites; a series of themed character rooms, each inspired by famous style icons of the past.

Called ‘the Personal Shopping salon’, each of the seven themed and two VIP suites is dedicated to a different stylish woman, from 20s siren Tamara de Lempicka, to singer Grace Jones and fashion designer Jeanne-Marie Lanvin. The suites filter out from a central salon, or ‘drawing room’, inspired by 20s legend Syrie Maugham’s Chelsea home, complete with a bar and a library.

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