Early Learning Center: Summer Fun on the Beach

Summer holiday (plus Islamic New Year holiday) already reaches its end for Indonesia from today with many offices, including mine, are starting open normally. However, the memory of the holiday will still remain on our head, and also on the photos of course. If you went to the beach on the last holiday, this Early Learning Center window display will make you miss the fun you experienced there. As it is a shop selling children educational toys and other equipments, the main object shown on the display is of course that goodies aforementioned. They are set and displayed in a very excellent arrangement as if we are on the beach side, playing with our children, and get dirty with the sands. I do not need to explain any further about the detail as you can observe from the photos above. Enjoy!

Galeries Lafayette: Play with Colors

Withing the count of days, Moslem people all over the world will celebrate their New Year including in Indonesia. All the shopping malls are now being decorated with Arabian themed or touch decorations and settings including Galeries Lafayette Jakarta. However, this Paris-based department store does not project the theme literally but in modern approach. Colorful panels with motif inspired by Middle Eastern culture are placed inside each window. Each mannequins inside the windows are wearing outfits with colors match to the color of the panel. Most of the outfits are Indonesian designer's work or brands such as Studio 133 by Biyan, or EdBe by Eddy Betty.

Chanel: Gloomy

 

Chanel is one of big French fashion brands that perhaps has a big big big marketing budget thanks to excellent number of profit from selling its bags and other accessories as well as perfume, Chanel No. 5 for sure. Every season, a mega fashion show with the most amazing decor and setting you could imagine is always held at Grand Palais during the Paris Fashion Week. Also, on the bridge season of resort and pre-fall, editors, clientele, and important buyers are taken to every corner of the world to see the fashion show. This Pre-Fall 2013 season, the ruins of Linlithgow Palace, outside Edinburgh, Scotland, becomes the dramatic set for the show that features Karl Lagerfeld's favorite models like Stella Tenant, Cara Delevingne, as well as Brad Kroenig with his cute little son. This show is now being used, as always, to become the inspiration for the window display. Mannequins wearing the immaculate tweed jackets stand in front of the giant image of the palace. Thick candles are everywhere around them, adding a mysterious atmosphere upon the dark scenery.

Hermes: Ribbons

Talking about luxury shopping in the South East Asia area, people will remember more of Singapore rather than Vietnam. However, Vietnam is now having all the big names of the luxury brands you ever know. One of them is Hermes that already had two boutiques, each in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, two major and main cities of this country. The one in HCMC is located at Vincom Cener A, a luxury shopping center with its beautiful French colonial style building inside the main district of the city. The window display of this boutique is surprisingly beautiful and creative. Ribbons become the main point of view of the main window area. They are flying and swirling around the, few, products displayed there. Hope one day I can visit this boutique by myself since the photos here were taken by my friend.

Luxury brands in Vietnam

 Ralph Lauren, Vincom Center A

 Dior, Vincom Center A

 Louis Vuitton, Vincom Center A

Finally I have a reason to visit Vietnam some day. My friend sent this photos of luxury boutiques in Ho Chi Minh City that make me curious about luxury business in this country. Louis Vuitton at the Opera View building might be the oldest brand that opens its door in this emerging country. Yet, nowadays it must face the competition with its LVMH brother brands or other groups'. A luxury shopping center called Vincom Center A is housing many fashion and jewelry brands, two of them are Dior and Ralph Lauren. The thing that makes me amaze about the Ralph Lauren boutique here is the availability of Ralph Lauren Collection gowns that I had seen on the runaway. We simply cannot ignore this city, or country, when talking about new wealth and luxury shopping heaven.

Raoul: Painter's (dirty) studio

 

Nowadays, the connection between the world of high fashion and the realm of art is getting more and more intimate with designers or fashion houses are making collaboration with painters or other artists, and releasing collection that is said as based on a work by someone. Raoul is doing this 'artistic' thing for its pre-Fall 2013 collection but not literally taking it on the collection. This Singapore brand takes us inside a painter's studio where sprays of paints, empty cans, and blank or used canvas and frames are everywhere. The situation here is not that minimalist and comfy thing as what you see in the art gallery, but more of dirty and messy one. However, this terrible background still provide the beautiful ambience for the collection itself.

Louis Vuitton x Eko Nugroho

I am not a fan of contemporary or modern arts that is now growing rapidly everywhere in the world since I am a fan of classic one. However, I am so surprised yet so proud to read the news about Louis Vuitton collaboration with Eko Nugroho, one of the young Indonesian artist. His works are deeply influenced by his Javanese cultural background and also affected with the contemporary street art, graffiti, and comics. Those influences can be seen in this Louis Vuitton Foulards D'Artistes scarf collection that now is being displayed at the window display of LV boutique in Plaza Indonesia.

For the visitors who want to know more about Eko Nugroho, I share an excellent biography about him by ARNDT Berlin http://www.arndtberlin.com/website/artist_8533

Kate Spade: Red carpet

Amid the month of rare window display update in Jakarta, Kate Spade gives a refreshing look for its window. There are three mannequins queuing in a red carpeted row. (Stickers of) photographers with their sparkling blitz lights become the background that make the window looks like a scene from a movie preview attended by movie stars.

Dior: Secret Garden 2

Earlier last month, Dior released the chapter 2 of its infamous Secret Garden short movie. After the bright and beautiful Galleries des Glaces of Versailles and its beautiful garden, the darker mood is now blanketing the video that is shot at Grand Trianon and the forest near this palace. The abstract story on the video is now can be found, or at least seen, at the Dior window displays. Geometric objects in the striking neon colors of pink, red, and orange catch the attention of all the passers-by. They are installed in the middle of the window that has hand painted imagery of a forest, or a garden, in dark green color. Unique, beautiful, edgy, and last but not least, unpredictable.