For those not out and about in town at the moment I just had to show the Bonpoint autumn windows.
I love the windswept elongated scarves and the swaddled baby on a sheep, so cute. Bonpoint have also just launched their own organic skincare travel kit for the holiday season.
Quick posts this week as I am off to CPH Kids on Thursday for the Copenhagen fashion fairs and I have lots to do!
Baby swaddled in Bonpoint autumn windows in Marylebone, London 2011
Sweeping scarves in Bonpoint's windy fall kids fashion 2011 window display
Sweeping scarves in Bonpoint's windy winter window display
Bonpoint skincare travel kit
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I went past Selfridges windows yesterday, another eye catching display from them for the winter season and good to see the focus is still on strong colour which seems to be a trend with legs. It will be interesting to see if the womens collections still have a bold vibrant palette for next summer too.
Bold bright handbags, tights and shoes gives the trend legs at Selfridges for their winter 2011 window display.
Bold playful window display at Selfridges for winter 2011
Eye catching display at Selfridges winter 2011 windows
Raffia gone mad at Selfridges Fall window displays for winter 2011
Innovative design ideas for a colourful background at Selfridges windows winter 2011
Love those metallic lip balloons, Selfridges autumn/winter window display 2011
Pick up sticks, giant version at Selfridges, autumn 2011 windows.
Fun landscape with James the Door stop at Selfridges winter windows 2011
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Great glasses display at Kirk Originals store
June 3, 2011
Love this glasses display for Kirk Originals eyestore on London’s Conduit St.
How modern and original is this! How out of date does it make so many other opticions look. No more to say really!
Except this is the company that makes Heston Blumenthal’s glasses and if they are good enough for him, they must be good.
Interior of Kirk Originals eyewear shop, Conduit St, London May 2011
The front of the store is pretty eye catching too! Kirk originals on Conduit St, London
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This might just be me but I keep seeing window displays where the head of a model has been substituted by a giant ball of foliage or flora. I don’t know wether they are a deliberate homage to the famous Salvador Dali picture below or just an unconscious dream.
I find them a little unsettling, what do you think?
Floral head display at Other Criteria, New Bond St, London W1, May 2011
Topiary heads on display in Yumi, Mortimer St London W1
Salvador Dali 1937 Untitled ( woman with flower head)
It stopped me in my tracks when I saw the fabulous display in Anthropologie’s windows.
How amazing are these vintage looking garment bags, and how simple to make yourself with old worn sheets and shirts. I love them all, especially the ones with the attached multi fabric tags, wish my wardrobe had such chic coverings!
How cute for a child’s wardrobe too, for those special party dresses or suits.
Anthropologie spring windows 2011 with vintage look garment bags
Close up detail, vintage look garment bags in Anthropologie windows
Anthropologie windows, I rather like the vintage scarf print top and chunky necklace too
The Lanvin menswear store in Saville Row also gave me a chuckle as I went past. Very Monsieur.
Lanvin menswear store windows in Saville Row, spring 2011
Lanvin menswear store windows in Saville Row, spring 2011
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Dolls at Chanel and Teddy Bear trees at Butler and Wilson, high fashion goes juvenile for Christmas.
December 14, 2010
Stopping by Chanel in Brompton Cross I had to snap these windows with a mini mademoiselle doll accessorising the models outfits. I started thinking about how many stores are producing child like toy accessories for adults now, and then I went down the Fulham Rd and saw these Teddy Bear trees in the windows of Butler and Wilson with crystal sparkling teddy bear brooches and key rings for sale.
Its a kind of nurserypedia, all things from childhood re-imagined for the adult whose inner child still wants that Christmas stocking.
Chanel doll in Brompton Cross windows for Xmas 2010
Chanel dolls in winter white match the trees for Xmas 2010
Mini Mademoiselle Chanel doll close up
Teddy Bear trees for Xmas at Butler and Wilson 2010
Teddy Bear trees with bejeweled decorations
Jewel teddy bears key rings and brooches on Teddy Bear Christmas tree
And for those with still lingering memories of the nursery sheepskin rug, rather fabulous reindeer skins covering chilly steel chairs for smokers outside a London restaurant,
Reindeer fur covered chairs for smokers in London's chilly winter weather
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Brompton Cross SW3 some really cute things for Xmas gifts for babies and big kids!
November 30, 2010
A visit to the shops around the Brompton Cross area inspired me as some I had never ventured into before, such as Skitsch, a new venture from Milan which combines great design interior pieces with fun and quirky decorative toys and has a specific kids corner full of design classics for toddlers.
Also a first time visit to the re-located Mint store from Wigmore St into a fresh new bright shop tucked around the corner from Brompton Rd and I also loved the Conran store white forest windows with wooden decorative recycled trees from a project in Hastings that helps the unemployed which customers can buy after Dec 20th.
I hope you like these Xmas finds as much as I do.
Recycled wooden pallets made into trees by the Hastings and Bexhill project
Trees are for sale from £19 for table top size after 20th Dec at the Conran shop Xmas 2010
More trees in Skitsch ground floor Christmas window entrance leading to a cavernous basement
Cute Angel baby rattle from Skitsch for Xmas 2010
Modernist Dolls house that can be customised in different sections to match your own home at Skitsch
Baby rattle and throws at Mint
Baby face cushion and baby rattles at Mint
Extraordinary quilted leather pig stools at Mint
Naive wood toys made from recycled road barriers at Skandium
Love this rubber puffer fish at Caramel Brompton Rd
Cute frog money box at Caramel
Last but not least, a little further out are these woven reindeer at Anthropology in the Kings Rd
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Harvey Nichols Christmas windows, just so weird! The aliens have landed.
November 25, 2010
What were they thinking?
I guess its good to cheer us all up and give us a laugh in the middle of recession but there is something really spooky about the alien models in Harvey Nichols Christmas windows.
Plus it all seems a little bit junky and tacky for such an upmarket store. Should provoke a lot of comment though, see what you think?
Jumbled up windows for Xmas at Harvey Nichols Nov 2010
Alien head models in Harvey Nichols Christmas windows
Harvey Nichols snow theme Christmas windows
Junky tinsel Christmas trees and chavvy house lights on the front of Harvey Nichols for Xmas 2010
Alien head models amongst the Christmas food
The Holly and the Ivy at Harvey Nichols
Let it snow - on Mars?
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Cute christmas paper cut windows in Marylebone Lane in London
November 17, 2010
I spotted a window display at KJ’s Laundry store that stopped me last week and I just had to take a photo of such a carefully cut out paper display. On enquiring as to who the talented shop assistant was that had created this I was pointed in the direction of Suzie McLaughlin who specialises in lazer cut paper displays and who decorated Harvey Nichols for Septembers fashion week covering the first floor in colourful foliage.
These really should be viewed up close but I hope you can see the general feel of the windows.
Lazer cuts from Suzie McLaughlin at KJ's Laundry in Marylebone Xmas windows
More lazer cuts for Xmas windows
I also loved The White Companies winter wonderland windows
More white delights from The White Company for Christmas
Then I saw Malene Birger's great baubles suspended on red ribbons
And in Covent garden the biggest baubles of all - so much nicer than the Oxford St and Regent St lights
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Selfridges Christmas windows for Xmas 2010 are such fun.
November 5, 2010
I briefly saw these at the beginning of the week and had to go back and snap them later as they are such fun and so inspirational.
The whole of the front facade of Selfridges is covered in lush green fir foliage with sparkling white lights and the store inside is decorated with giant bauble rings.
The windows are jokey and quirky with googly eyes, blow up Betty Boop figures and fairground and playground themes.
If these don’t entice customers inside this Christmas then nothing will.
Greenery covers the front of Selfridges windows and doors for Xmas 2010
The googly eyed shoe family in bed at Selfridges Xmas window
Putting the finishing touches on googly eyed Xmas Hampers
The circus comes to town
Fantastic Sylvanian families Caravan in Selfridges windows Xmas 2010
The Havaianas Arc sails into Christmas
Betty Boop blow ups enjoy muffins and macaroons
The Felt Mistress monster house
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