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24. December 2008 at 14:04

UK MARKET CHANGE

Retailers Aldi, Walmart, Best Buy, Inditex, Apple and Ikea will go head to head for 'The International Retailers of the Year’ at the Oracle Retail Week Awards 2009. Hosted by UK's leading provider of retail industry celebrate the excellence in retail.

ZARA

Being judged by the big names of the sectors, retailers have the opportunity to show what differentiates them from other retail companies.
Their are various categories addressing all aspects of the retail market from Retail Advertising Campaign of the Year to Store Manager of the Year.

With US retailers becoming increasingly prominent on the British high street, the landscape of the UK retail market is changing.

ANGELS KNIT

MAGICALLY DESIGNED BY Sandra Backlund

The 2007 Hyeres Grand Prize winner who has been quietly impressing with her exaggerated, complicated and ultimately beautiful knits, whilst lacking big shows or retail presence is a rarity in fashion.

TOP SHOP'S KNIT

SIMONE SHAILES who graduated from Central Saint Martins MA this year, who also won a Chloé Scholarship and more recently the L'Oreal Professionnel Fashion Design award has reproduced her graduate collection for Topshop.

It represents something of a high street first to reproduce a fresh graduate's collection for the buying public and could well pave the way for future designer x high street collaborations. The collection features the distinctive chunky loopy knitted dresses and capes as well as the wide metal plate belts to contrast with the soft textures.

Susie Bubble: How did the collaboration between you and Topshop come about?
Simone Shailes: I met with them after applying for Topshop New Generation Sponsorship at which point they proposed the collaboration, which I was delighted about!

21. December 2008 at 20:50

Design Prize Winner

Pop Onward Design Prize 08
Cool Japanese brand with shop in Paris

That must be angels!

21. December 2008 at 20:48

You can still shock with printed Ads

Leute wollen dieses Werbesujet als Plakat.

Der Schweizer Verlag Kein&Aber hat es mit einer doppelseitigen Werbung in der "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung" (FAZ) die "geilste Anzeige des Jahres" zu schalten. Dieser Ansicht ist zumindest die "Bild-Zeitung". Die FAZ hingegen hat sich bei den Lesern für das Inserat entschuldigt.

Keinen Grund für einen Rückzieher sieht Kein&Aber-Verleger Peter Haag: "Ich finde die Anzeige gar nicht schlimm". Sie sei witzig und intelligent gemacht, sagt er gegenüber tagesanzeiger.ch. Es sei überhaupt nicht seine Art mit derben Sprüchen Werbung zu machen. "Wir wollten nicht provozieren", so der Verleger.

THAT'S STYLE!

THIS IS A PROTOTYPE BY IFM - INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE LA MODE

don’t copy or develop from this design, JUST ENJOY

07. December 2008 at 12:57

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

"AN ART PIECE YOU CANNOT BUY" says Olaf Breuning about his Sand Sculpture

The official public opening of Art Basel Miami Beach is in a few hours, but the satellite shows around town are already up and running, says the NYTimes journalist Mark Ellwood, and: The Sagamore Hotel – which has a year-round arty edge thanks to owner Marty Taplin showcasing his private collection onsite – has another public art project under way following last year’s Spencer Tunick-directed mass strip-off. The impish Swiss artist Olaf Breuning, tapped as this week’s guest creative, is ramping up the raunchiness with an abstracted 150-ton sphinx-like sand sculpture of a reclining woman. “Miami has something, not sleazy or cheesy about it, but you see people walking around in very tight bathing suits, big breasts, plastic surgery so I thought I’d make something about the relationship between sexuality and art history,” he said.

A fleeting masterpiece, it will vanish within days, eroded by wind and sea, but Breuning is not worried. “I’m very proud to be making an art piece you cannot buy. In our time, it’s actually really perfect.” Don’t tell that to the dealers when the fair opens tomorrow.