Kate Spade
The holiday season is over us and the designer boutiques and department stores have started rolling out their christmas and winter displays. Some are really subtle, some are really in your face, whilst some are so plain that you can’t really tell it’s a christmas window. More pictures after the jump.
I’ve been having some real difficulties lately taking pictures of the fashion windows here in Oslo. Maybe it’s the light, maybe it’s the camera, maybe the photographer is incompetent or perhaps it’s a combination of all three. The window glasses are reflecting a lot of light so it’s difficult to take good pictures. Today’s been really cloudy though so I thought I’d use the opportunity to take a few snaps in my lunch break.
Louis Vuitton in Oslo, August 2010
Spools of golden lace in the windows at Louis Vuitton. The reels double as a table for the merchandise. The golden lace has also been used to embroider “Maison fondée en 1854″ on the back wall of the display chambre. I love the reels, but I feel more could have been done with the display . I’m all for keeping things simple, but I would have loved to see more merchandise on display and perhaps stuff which isn’t monogram (since they have that in the other windows too).
More pictures from Louis Vuitton, Hermès and Hugo Boss after the jump
Last post from this side of the Atlantic as I head back to the Old World stupidly early tomorrow morning. Anyhoo, here’s more fashion windows from Dallas. This time from the NorthPark mall.
Versace
More pictures after the jump…
So I’m in Dallas at the moment after having helped my better half move from Houston. Today we went to the Galleria mall here in Dallas. It’s a lot smaller than it’s namesake in Houston, but they did have a few high-end fashion shops – including Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Thomas Pink.
Thomas Pink’s windows are inspired by London. More pics from Thomas Pink and other stores, after the jump.
Right now I’m in Houston, visiting my better half. Earlier today we went to Galleria and I popped by the main Louis Vuitton shop there since they carry the ready-to-wear collection at that branch. I was on a quest. A quest to find the coat.
Unfortunately they didn’t have it in, but they did have a lot of other nice things. I didn’t want to get kicked out of the shop for taking pictures, but I managed to take this quick snap before leaving the store.
People who know me know about my slight obsession (understatement) with shoes. I’m always taking pictures of pairs I like and my iphone is full of photos of my own shoes, shoes friends are wearing, shoes I like in shops, shoes random people on the street are wearing etc. So I thought I’d put up a collage with some of these pictures.
A few days back Qing and I were talking about adding some regular features here – one of the ideas we both agreed on was posting pictures of interesting shop windows. I’ve always been fascinated by visual merchandising and how designers present their creations to customers – both in the shop and in the shop windows. As a fashion student I used to go on excursions to New Bond Street, Selfridges and Sloane Street to snap pictures of the shop windows. The pictures I would save in my sketch books for inspiration.
A couple of weeks ago I was in Barcelona, and here’s a few snaps I took of some of the designer shop windows around Passeig de Gràcia.
Trussardi
More pictures after the cut
Maybe it’s because of all the recent hype surrounding The September Issue, Valentino: The Last Emperror and The Day Before, but as of lately I have a new addiction – watching fashion documentaries. What I love about documentaries like the ones listed below is that you get to see what things are really like behind the scenes. You get an insight into how the designers work and what inspires them. Here’s a few of my favourites from YouTube:
BBC: The Secret World of Haute Couture >> Playlist
Loïc Prigent: Signe Chanel >> Playlist (episode 1 – 5)
Loïc Prigent: Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09
Masters of style: John Galliano >> Playlist
Vivienne Westwood >> Part 01 | 02
Yves Saint Laurent >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06
Although I do like to watch fashion reality shows and find them entertaining, I find it kind of sad that a lot of people seem to think that reality shows like Project Runway is what fashion is really all about. As Loïc Prigent told Maya Singer in a recent interview:
I’ve seen a little bit of these reality shows, and whatever they’re about, they’re not about fashion. Competition, making fun of people, but not fashion. It’s very hard to convince people to do a real fashion show— there’s a prejudice against fashion people in TV, even in France.
I really hope that the recent popularity of the fashion documentary genre will help change this and that people realise that there’s more to fashion than creating dresses out of chocolate wrappers (heads up to Hershey’s for the great PR effort though!).
Photo source: NY Magazine/Christopher Anderson
