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The Harrods Express Christmas 2013 , at London's Harrods

The Harrods Express Christmas 2013 is ready to go

November 15, 2013 by The CoF

The Christmas mood always start when shops around the world put their best clothes on because the best way to create that festive mood is through the shops’ windows. It is already mid November , 40 days until Christmas and fashion retailers are the first to open their “windows” to let in the spirit of Christmas in the most original ways. The London’s luxury department store Harrods invites you this holidays in a mystical and luxurious travel. To get there it […]

Categories: Design • Tags: Christmas, Department store, Harrods, Harrods Express, Holidays 2013, LONDON

N°21 sweatshirt for British retailer,Selfridges

October 31, 2013 by The CoF

N°21 gives exclusively about its exclusively creativity to one of the world’s major department stores. The brand has created for the British retailer,Selfridges a limited edition piece .It is a sweatshirt with printed logo and sleeves decorated with lace. On sale in the store from November 4 at the price of 230 pounds. Related articles Selfridges apologises after friend of EDL leader Tommy Robinson is refused service (thetimes.co.uk) Bright Young Things 2013 (stylebubble.co.uk) Modernising Selfridges (beforeitbegins.wordpress.com) Selfridges ‘burka raid’ detectives arrest five men in […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Department store, limited edition, LONDON, N°21, Selfridges

Neiman Marcus Has New Owners

October 29, 2013 by The CoF

The famous retailer Neiman Marcus has new owners.The company is now owned by Ares Management LLC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Buying cost, $ 6 billion The new owners plan to pay more attention to the expansion of the network, both offline and online. Remember that Neiman Marcus has long been famous for amazingly high standards of service. It was they who in 1984 introduced the industry’s first loyalty program , and in 2000 the first of the luxury […]

Categories: Fashion, News • Tags: Ares Management, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, CPP Investment Board, Department store, Neiman Marcus

A visual from the Prada and Printemps collaboration.

Printemps Paris wears Prada for Christmas

October 17, 2013 by The CoF

The Christmas Wears Prada, at least in Paris, where the department store Printemps has chosen the Italian brand as a partner to decorate the store for Christmas 2013 that will be unveiled in early November. Meanwhile, it is anticipated that ” the facades of Printemps Haussmann will be the backdrop to the magic of Christmas Eve when , aboard his 16-meter sled driven by the legendary reindeer , Santa Claus will take off into the sky amid a cloud […]

Categories: Design, Fashion, News • Tags: 2013, Christmas, Department store, Paris, Prada, Printemps, Shopping

Sofia Coppola designed the windows for Le Bon Marché Paris

Sofia Coppola for Le Bon Marché, the oldest Parisian department store

September 24, 2013 by The CoF

The oldest Parisian department store Le Bon Marché invited film director Sofia Coppola to work on the design of its windows. It was done in honor of launching an updated model of SC bags especially for the department store – the original version of the bag was created by Sofia Coppola for Louis Vuitton in 2009.The limited edition of SC bags model will be available in dark cobalt calfskin with fluorescent fuchsia trims applied by hand. It will retail for 2,420 euros, or $3,275, for the […]

Categories: Design, Fashion, People • Tags: Department store, Le Bon Marché, Louis Vuitton, October 2013, Paris, SC Bag, Sofia Coppola

A Little Sun For Christmas At La Rinascente Milano

December 11, 2012 by The CoF

By Cynthia Martens A view of La Rinascente’s holiday windows, featuring Little Sun solar-powered lamps with posters and videos showing the countries where people are using them.Photo By Courtesy of La Rinascente Temperatures have dropped here in Milan, but warmth and light remain at La Rinascente, which has decked out its Christmas windows with dozens of small, solar-powered lamps from the company Little Sun, and massive posters and videos showing the countries where people are now using them. Danish-Icelandic artist […]

Categories: Fashion, News • Tags: Christmas, Department store, Duomo, La Rinascente, Milan, Olafur Eliasson, Sun, Tate Modern

A 3D Spectacle At Saks Fifth Avenue

December 8, 2012 by The CoF

Every year New Yorkers look forward to the spectacle that is the unveiling of the Saks Fifth Avenue Christmas windows. This year they were not disappointed, with the legendary department store putting on a breathtaking display by transforming the front of the entire building into a giant 3D screen with sequences featuring Christmas wreaths, gifts and ice skaters. The windows themselves showcase the latest ready-to-wear collections with a little help from the Saks Christmas yeti.

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: Christmas, Department store, Design, Fashion, Holiday, Retail, Saks Fifth Avenue, Shopping