Cool case from Germany – they used packaged meat from prehistoric animals and placed them in the supermarket shelf space…
The take-out naturally is that it is still fresh even after thousands of years… They used QR codes to give more information and tell the story. Pretty cool. Read the case here at ypsylon2.
/Baek
In the mood for offline shopping
Let me present My Virtual Model!
I 2007, online clothing sales climbed to the top of the online retail spending ladder. With a 18.3 to 17.2 billion dollars score, Clothing even beat the old champ, Hardware and Software. Have a quick look at what’s going on in the online retail marketing field:
The pro’s and con’s of online clothes shopping seem clear: Consumers are driven by the low prices and the freedom of doing your shopping when you have the time to do it. At night, when your children have gone to bed and all the stores are closed, you can do you shopping.
So what are the barriers? Personally, I can think of three reasons for why I’m not buying clothes online. First of all, I have a hard time imagining how the clothes would look on me and how it would go with the rest of my wardrobe. Secondly, I’d be afraid to order sizes that don’t fit me. And thirdly, I’d miss the shopping experience of browsing stores.
In helping to overcome all three barriers, My Virtual Model seems like a great tool. It’s a virtual model of yourself, that you can dress with clothes from the cooperating retailers such as H&M, Addidas and Land’s End.
I'd like to have shown you my own My Virtual model, but this blog has a hard time uploading my pictures, grrr!
Pro’s? Well, My Virtual model is highly adjustable. You can change more than 20 parameters from body shape and shoulder width to eye color and beard style. And, to perfect the illusion, you can even add your own face to your avatar. This helps me overcome the first two barriers, since it helps me imagine how I’d look wearing the clothes, and if it would fit me. And it gives me a real shopping feel.
It’s definately the best shopping avatar I’ve seen. I’d wish some more brands would join – maybe even giving me the opportunity of dressing My Virtual Model in Cheap Monday jeans, an Acne t-shirt and an H&M coat. If that would really happen, I know what I’d do:
// Jakob
colette’s is just a fabulous concept store. i’m not sure what they sell. you can definately buy clothes there, but also electronics, music, perfume, books, food and basically just a whole bunch of cool stuff.
inside the store the thing that impresses me the most is their fantastic decor. they have really cool pictures on the wall and practically no hangers – all the clothes are on manequins. unfortunately no photography, but i snook a few. look at how they categorised their pictures – people with all striped shirts, all camuflage, etc…
i love that store. here in cph we have storm – it seems that they stole their entire concept from colette’s but they don’t do it as well.
/baek
hello all. i just got back from paris. and what a great city. i was just amazed by all the great store fronts and how much care and effort the parisians put into presenting their products to the world.here is a fantastic ice cream store called myberry where the store front and the counter is actually in one piece…
Oliver’s and Co is an entire store dedicated to selling olive oil. And they do a fantastic job of giving the design a sort of old fashioned traditional flavour.
and Bernard Magney – a whiskey store with a high polished all black store front. very cool.
le mouton noir – the black sheep with an all green front…hmmm
fermob outdoor lounge – creates a very cool outstanding window display.
and and and colette’s – what a great store. i’ll write more about this store in another post.
the final example is completely different. this was an outstanding restaurant my girlfriend and i ate in called the black calavados. the concept here is BLACK. the front is underbranded, simply stating bc in black. the interior is all black – high polish. the light is dim and there is a great loft painting remniscient of the sistene chapel. the menu is black the concept for the food is black – black aubergine, black sauce, black chocolate, black coffee, etc. they play quite loud rock n’ roll – not uncomfortably loud but definately not muzak. and its owned by chris cornell. fantastic…and extremely recomendable.
that’s it…
/baek
This was spotted in Tokyo and Beverly Hills.
A.P.C. – which is a french clothing label with stores around the world acts in a superior way. A.P.C. has understood the importance of using the store as prevailing medium. The Tokyo store as communication weapon directs attention towards their target audience – younger people. A general insight towards this segment, is grounded in their ad-resistent, curios mindset and aim for being mentally stimulated and challenged.
Thus, the frontage of the store in Tokyo is unbranded (The A.P.C. logo is engraved in the floor), which naturally teases the “viewer” – but, again it´s decisive, that the experience inside the store fully fulfills expectations. The internal communication and products needs to be aligned with expectations, which in sum will make the brand appear superior. However, it should be said that using the store as medium in such a way, is only possible in case you have a well-established brand with clear insight on your brand passengers. Pradas store (picture below) in Beverly Hills is another example of UNBRANDED UNDERPLAYED BRANDING.
