Posts Tagged ‘Retail’

Don’t get me wrong. Everyone at WGSN is crazy about what they do, it’s part and parcel of working in this business. And then there’s Jen Sherrin.
Jen  is National Sales Manager for  Australia and New Zealand and she is particularly passionate about what she does, who she meets and what she can do to help [...]

Blame it on my being Canadian, but for years I didn’t think London’s Christmas windows came up to scratch. Lack of investment meant that the best people seemed to be able to do was put mirror balls in the windows, change the gels on the lights to purple, or red, and throw tinsel everywhere. Ok, [...]

Retail Safari this morning to Uniqlo’s London flagship to look at the launch of Jil Sander’s new range. By 8am there was a queue at the door as the design obsessed of London turned out to see the first collaboration between two modern design greats. At first glance the combination seems unusual, but Uniqlo’s ability [...]

Amanda Carr, our Senior Editor of Visual Merchandising has come in this morning buzzing about creativity on a budget. Plywood and vinyl are the materials du jour she says: “Let’s face it, visual merchandising budgets were never that big in the first place, so VM staff are well used to being creative on a budget, [...]

The WGSN team have been writing and talking about Merci, the cool Parisian boutique-department store since it opened last Spring. In fact What’s In Store Senior Editor Francesca Muston has never been so passionate about a new launch. I got to see it first hand on Saturday and was knocked out too. My Friday post [...]

Tough market, tired customers, changeable weather, it’s a retailers nightmare out there right now. These days the increasingly savvy customer – and yes this is a global phenomenon - shops the web first, knows to wait for the ‘secret’ discounts that are increasingly prevalent, and if worst comes to worst is willing to wait until [...]

We’ve been talking about Lululemon at WGSN for a few months now, thanks to my Senior Business Editor Angela Rumsey. With over 100 stores across the world, this sports lifestyle retail concept sits in a crowded market, and yet it has a handwriting all its own that lifts it above the rest. A blog isn’t [...]

I was in Australia a few weeks ago for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week giving a talk at their business conference (more on Australia over the weekend when I finally have some time to write!) and found myself talking a lot about the importance of stylists today – after all, if we aren’t spending quite so [...]

In Seoul for a few days seeing clients and giving presentations. Am knocked out, yet again, by the quality and the imagination of retail in this town. My latest favourite is The Queen. Four floors of cafe, gallery, clothing and accessories. Each room has a laid back aesthetic which is a perfect evocation of our [...]