(Sheneka)
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Key words
I´ve written down some descriptive sentences but for now, I´m just going to write some words associated with the different shops..
DSM: attraction, pretentious, expensive, different. For people with more money than personal style.
Hoxton Boutique: Cosy, small, affordable, trendy
B store: natural, clean, earth, rude
Oxfam: West London, organised, charity, cool
Browns: traditional, classy, elegance, middle-aged customers
Brown Focus: modern, youth, opposite to Browns
Matches: yummy mummies, expensive
Topshop: high-street, affordable, mass, everyone ends up looking the same
Selfridges: window displays, tourists, expensive
Liberty: luxury design, traditional
U.O: American cool, industrial, relaxed, youth
(Matilda)
DSM: attraction, pretentious, expensive, different. For people with more money than personal style.
Hoxton Boutique: Cosy, small, affordable, trendy
B store: natural, clean, earth, rude
Oxfam: West London, organised, charity, cool
Browns: traditional, classy, elegance, middle-aged customers
Brown Focus: modern, youth, opposite to Browns
Matches: yummy mummies, expensive
Topshop: high-street, affordable, mass, everyone ends up looking the same
Selfridges: window displays, tourists, expensive
Liberty: luxury design, traditional
U.O: American cool, industrial, relaxed, youth
(Matilda)
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Selfridges
(nadine)
Sara
- Selfridges is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom
- Harry Gordon Selfridge was the founder and opened selfridges in 1909
- 2nd Largest shop in the UK
- 3 other selfridges
- London Store designed by Daniel Burnham,
- The distinctive polychrome sculpture above the Oxford Street entrance is the work of British sculptor Gilbert Bayes.
- Selfridges in London was named world's best department store in 2010.
- High street brands to High end luxury brands
- Aimed at 20 year olds and higher
- Clothing for men and women, bags and accessories, electronics, furniture, make-up, cosmetics and fragrances.
- Staff are very welcoming and friendly and very attentive
- Recently opened shoe gallery.
- Bright, eye-catching window displays have become part of the brand image and always attract tourists and anybody passing by. Art Installations/ 3d visuals rather than mannequins displaying clothing.
- Eclectic market. Young edgy yet also a very old traditional feel to it.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Browns & Browns Focus
- Created by Joan Burstein in 1970
- Started as a small boutique at 27 Molton Street
- Individually handpicked items from the worlds top designers.
- Includes a personal Shopper service
- Older, Sophisticated market
- Simple, plain window displays for an older market
- Browns Focus
- Aimed more at a fashion forward crowd "For a woman that likes to dress with attitude"
- Aimed more at a younger market
- same price points as Browns
- Visual and display in the store is much more edgy and opposite of Browns, across the road. (Tiffany)
Matches - Ledbury road
- First Matches store opened in wimbledon in 1990
- Thirteen stores across Notting Hill, Richmond, Wimbledon, Mayfair and Marylebone
- Designers such as Burberry Prorsum, YSL, Diane Von Furstenberg, Azzedine Alaia, Sophia Kokosalaki and Alexander Mcqueen
- Cutting edge Fashion
- Sophisticated artistic interior and decor.
- Aimed at a higher market
- Very High end customers
- High fashion Designers (Tiffany)
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