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Popular This Week1. Literal Flash Mobs - Naked Models With Painted on Clothing Strut Through Oxford Circus (VIDEO)  Painted on clothing is certainly a unique way to advertise an online fashion store -- especially since no clothes are featured!
A mini flash mob of both male and female body painted models invaded Oxford…2. Conceptualized Shopping Spaces - The Rroomm Boutique Challenges You to Question Reality (GALLERY)  So how angry would you be if the shop you were trying clothes on in had several doors, but only one of them worked? And you tried all of the doors in the process. I would be ticked, but that is why I don’t…3. Bohemian Workspaces - Design Collective Commune Opens the Commune Community Shop (GALLERY)  Commune Community Shop is the retail venture behind the multidisciplinary design collective Commune. The shop functions as both the collective’s workspace as well as a retail shop open to West Hollywood…4. DIY Virtual Menswear - Be Your Own Fashion Designer at Blank Label (GALLERY)  If you’re a trendy male who covets unique apparel, then Blank Label is where you want to go. Blank Label provides men with the tools to design and customize their own fashion labels—and what’s more unique…5. Sample-Only Boutiques - Esloutimo Shop Charges Customers to Test a Variety of Products (GALLERY)  The ‘try before you buy’ concept is making inroads in the retail world. Sample-only stores were first spotted in Asia with Tokyo-based Sample Lab and now the Barcelona-based Esloutimo shop has opened using…6. Movie-Themed Window Displays - Fantastic Mr. Fox Bergdorf Goodman's Holiday Scenes (GALLERY)  A fashionably sneaky cross-promotion, the Fantastic Mr. Fox Bergdorf Goodman's holiday scenes were launched just in time to promote the film last month. Building on the hype of the animated film based…7. Easy Installation Eco Panels - Lowe's DIY Solar Panels Cater to Green Homeowners  Lowe's, the retail powerhouse in the home improvement category, has announced that it will soon stock easy-to-install solar panels in its California stores. The Lowe's DIY solar panels, which will be available…8. Corner Stores for Creatives - Art Collective Okay Mountain's 'Corner Store' at Art Basel Miami Beach (GALLERY)  The Okay Mountain ‘Corner Store’ that graced Art Basel Miami Beach sold strange and wondrous treats to the art-loving crowd. Goods sold at ‘Corner Store’ included Wolf Meat, Kool Zesty Ranch Zest, Craps…9. American Apparel Art - The Ball-Nogues 'Built to Wear' Installation Brings Attention to the Garment (GALLERY)  Instantly drawn to these images, as I continued reading the post about the Ball-Nogues ‘Built to Wear’ art installation, I was floored, on so many levels. First off, the piece itself is magnificent, but…10. Fast Food Fashion - Target to Go Pop-Up Shop is like a Walk-Thru Boutique (GALLERY)  Walk into the Target to Go pop-up shop and you just might think you’ve walked into some Holiday-themed McDonald’s which doesn’t sell cheeseburgers, but diffusion fashion.
The holiday shop, which features…11. iPhone Money Apps - 'Square' Payment System Lets Any Business Take Credit Cards Instantly (VIDEO)  The ‘Square’ payment system has the potential to take advantage of one of the biggest hassles for many small businesses: accepting credit cards. It promises no contracts, monthly fees, or hidden costs…12. Marshmallow Chick Shops - The Peeps Concept Shop is All Peeps, All the Time (GALLERY)  I never really thought of Maryland as being the Mecca for all things sugary and sweet. Nor did I ever think it would garner the privilege of having cultural phenomenon in its presence, say, over that of… |
Popular This Month1. Top 50 Retail Trends and Storefront Innovations in 2009 (COUNTDOWN)  If you want to buy or sell more stuff, then you might be curious about the hottest retail trends and storefront innovations. No doubt many of the concepts on this countdown will find their way to stores…2. 50 Online Shopping Innovations - From Fitting Room Simulators to Invite-Only Shopping Sites (CLUSTER)  Black Friday is the day for shopping bargains, there’s no doubt about it. But is waiting in hours-long lines, shoving your way to get to the 50%-off shoes, and having things from your shopping cart snatched…3. 53 Unique Store Displays - From Bolshevik Retail Windows to Piled Tennis Ball Storefronts (CLUSTER)  In our world of passive browsing, tight wallets, and short attention spans, sometimes a cool window or store display can make the difference between a shopper continuing on their way and actually entering…4. 70 Credit Crunch Retail Promotions - Clever Store Promotions for Black Friday 2009 (CLUSTER)  In 2009, Black Friday retailers will attempt to woo budget-crunched holiday shoppers into brick-and-mortar stores like never before. We’ve seen a number of innovative approaches in advance of Black Friday…5. Literal Flash Mobs - Naked Models With Painted on Clothing Strut Through Oxford Circus (VIDEO) Painted on clothing is certainly a unique way to advertise an online fashion store -- especially since no clothes are featured!
A mini flash mob of both male and female body painted models invaded Oxford…6. 25 Walmart Finds - From Insightful Subculture Studies to Cheap High Fashion (CLUSTER)  If there has ever been a revolutionary superstore chain, these Walmart finds will surely solidify Walmart's claim to fame. With America’s Black Friday just around the corner, and Christmas sales right…7. 32 Exclusive Fashion Boutiques - From Basement Boutiques to Eclectic Kick Shops (CLUSTER)  Considering how fast fads become massed produced, it’s hard to stay original nowadays, yet there are exclusive fashion boutiques that encourage individual style and limited number of pieces.
This cluster…8. 26 Pop-Up Businesses - From Pop-Up eBay & DC Comics Stores to Pop-Up Cafes & Bars (CLUSTER)  Trend Hunter has seen creative approaches to retail all year, and one of the biggest trends popping up is the temporary store concept, or pop-up businesses.
Sure a lot of people are turning to online…9. City-Exclusive Fashion Lines - Chanel Shanghai will be the Most Refined Boutique East of Paris (VIDEO)  Famed luxury fashion house Chanel will open a new boutique in China. Chanel Shanghai will open on November 25th in what the company is promising to be their most refined boutique ever. Shanghai, an extremely…10. 20 Fantastic Food Deliveries - From Subscription-Based Sweets to Healthy Office Snacks (CLUSTER)  Many food startups are using delivery-based business models and focusing on specific niche markets. It's a unique and innovative concept that stands to defy the era of big-box retailing.
Despite the…11. HD Vending Machines - Sapient Interactive 'uVend' Interactive Coke Machine Hits North America (VIDEO)  Sapient Interactive has created an interactive Coke vending machine called uVend. uVend replaces the standard front of a vending machine with a 46” LCD touch screen rich with HD video, bluetooth and flash…12. Presidential Retail Windows - The Bloomingdale's Holiday Windows Include President Obama (GALLERY)  The holidays are a time for cheer—that, and special seasonal window displays. Displays, for instance, that include the President. One of the Bloomingdale’s holiday windows feature President Barrack Obama…13. Color-Coded Wines - 94wines Uses Numbers and Colors for Customer Personalization (GALLERY)  If you’re a wine connoisseur, it’s probably unimaginable to buy wine in which you have no idea what country it was from and when it was made. The Dutch company 94wines, however, is offering numbered and…14. Glowing Pink Displays - Studio Raar Highlights Le Coq Sportif Shoes With Neon Lighting (GALLERY)  If you're all about innovative design like Studio RAAR, having your office or store reflect that is a great way to flaunt your alignment with your brand.
These images of the ultra futuristic concept…15. Upside Down Retail Displays - The Sprize Loyalty Program at the Gap Turns Shopping on Its Head (VIDEO)  Gap recently introduced the Sprize loyalty program with a bang. Their motto "Shopping turned on its head" was never so literal as when they turned a Vancouver Gap into an upside down shopping experience.…16. Fitting Room Simulators - Try on Clothes With Tobi.com's Augmented Reality Dressing Room (VIDEO)  Many companies have been trying—unsuccessfully—to create effective virtual dressing rooms for customers via their online stores. Now Tobi.com has launched their Augmented Reality Dressing Room, the first…17. 11 Gift Cards and Certificates - From Controversial Gift Certificates to $50,000 Gift Cards (CLUSTER)  Although I’m a big believer in opening wrapped gifts from under the Christmas tree, sometimes you have to concede and purchase gift cards and certificates. I mean, there are so many choices out there that…18. Swedish Store Displays - Fjallraven New York Store Says 'Hej Hej!' to the Big Apple (GALLERY)  I never thought I would see the day when my favorite adventuring brand set foot on our shores. The Fjallraven New York Store is about to open, which is great news for Swedephiles like myself.
The Swedish…19. Motley Modular Boutiques - New York's Shoebox Store Has Interchangeable Wall Panels (GALLERY)  I love shoe shopping and shoe shops (who doesn’t?) and now I have one more shop on my list to visit. It’s the Shoebox store in New York City, which has recently undergone a cool interior redesign by Brooklyn…20. Spontaneous Employee Dances - This Electric Slide at Microsoft Store Video Makes Me Glad I Buy Apple (VIDEO)  Okay, so I’m doing a little bit of gauntlet-throwing with my subtitle, but after watching this ‘Electric Slide at Microsoft store’ video, I’m relieved that I buy Apple. Microsoft store employees in a Mission…21. Gift-Wrapped Heroes - The Holiday Sub Sandwich from Erbert & Gerbert is Perfect for Everyone (GALLERY)  Need a gift that won’t break the bank for that always difficult-to-buy-for someone in your life? Try the Erbert & Gerbert’s Holiday Sub and sandwich that come gift wrapped -- just don’t leave it under…22. Weekly Cake Clubs - Le Dolci Delivers Organic Desserts to London's Doorsteps (GALLERY)  Food-of-the-month clubs are on the rise (at least in New York City) and dessert clubs are not far behind. In London, Le Dolci is one such dessert club. But instead of monthly deliveries, Le Dolci delivers…23. Seasonal Handmade Pledges - Buyhandmade.Org Asks to Buy Handmade for the Holidays (VIDEO)  For this year’s Black Friday, BuyHandmade.org presented a different kind of door buster. They started ‘Pledge Handmade,’ which asks consumers to commit themselves to only buying handmade items this holiday…24. Designer Kuwaiti Gem Stores - Octium Jewelry is as Rare a Find as a Diamond (GALLERY)  This is an open letter to the country of Kuwait. How is it going these days? You know, after Desert Storm and all. Anyway, I just wanted to write and congratulate you on the Octium Jewelry boutique. I…25. Conceptualized Shopping Spaces - The Rroomm Boutique Challenges You to Question Reality (GALLERY) So how angry would you be if the shop you were trying clothes on in had several doors, but only one of them worked? And you tried all of the doors in the process. I would be ticked, but that is why I don’t…26. Bohemian Workspaces - Design Collective Commune Opens the Commune Community Shop (GALLERY) Commune Community Shop is the retail venture behind the multidisciplinary design collective Commune. The shop functions as both the collective’s workspace as well as a retail shop open to West Hollywood…27. Curvy Concrete Boutiques - The Fashion Studio in Belgrade for Tamara Radivojevic (GALLERY)  Architect Irena Kilibarda of Dsigned By has created the Fashion Studio in Belgrade, Serbia, for fashion designer Tamara Radivojevic.
Much like the fashion designer’s neutral, minimalist creations, the…28. Digital City Doubles - 'NearLondon' Replicates Oxford Street in Online Shopping Form (VIDEO)  Welcome to NearLondon, London’s Oxford Street as you’ve never seen it before--no litter, no traffic, no crowds, no queues, and best of all, no rain. Shoppers tired of the hustle, bustle and squash of London’s…29. DIY Virtual Menswear - Be Your Own Fashion Designer at Blank Label (GALLERY) If you’re a trendy male who covets unique apparel, then Blank Label is where you want to go. Blank Label provides men with the tools to design and customize their own fashion labels—and what’s more unique…30. Sample-Only Boutiques - Esloutimo Shop Charges Customers to Test a Variety of Products (GALLERY) The ‘try before you buy’ concept is making inroads in the retail world. Sample-only stores were first spotted in Asia with Tokyo-based Sample Lab and now the Barcelona-based Esloutimo shop has opened using… |
Popular Last Month1. 32 Riveting Retail Spaces - Businesses With Unique Storefronts and Innovative Interiors (CLUSTER)  Now more than ever, a retail business can’t rely solely on its brand identify to sell. No, it takes much more inventiveness—a memorable experience, if you will—to engage customers, which is why many retailers…2. Personal Shoe Shoppers - Get Your Shoes Handpicked For You with ShoeDazzle (GALLERY)  ShoeDazzle is to shoes what Hipstery is to t-shirts (just to refresh your memory, a little while ago Trend Hunter covered Hipstery, a company that selects tees for its customers). ShoeDazzle provides customers…3. Grocery Store Status Bags - Bargain Priced Chanel and LV Bags at Costco in NYC (GALLERY)  Did you ever think you would find Chanel and Louis Vuitton bags at Costco? Well, the new Costco Warehouse Shopping Club in New York City is carrying designer handbags including those from Chanel, Louis…4. 15 Shopping Cart Creations - From Smart Pushcarts to Load-Baring Bicycles (CLUSTER)  I don’t know why, but somehow whenever I start my grocery shopping, I tend to forget to grab a shopping cart. This is usually a bad thing as I usually mean business when I enter a grocery store. It seems…5. Dripping Chocolate Ceilings - The Godiva Chocoiste is a Chocoholic's Paradise (GALLERY)  I am a chocoholic and I think that Godiva’s new flagship store in Harajuku (an ultra-hip area in Tokyo, Japan) might be my mecca. Designed by Wonderwall the concept Godiva Chocoiste has a dripping chocolate…6. Futuristic Parisian Bakeries - La Patisseries De Reves Creates a Unique Shopping Experience (GALLERY)  So, of course you would expect the French to have great patisseries, I mean, that is a given. But would you expect a delicious patisserie to also be an experiment in innovative design, as well? The French…7. Raw Meat Fashions - The "Eat Your Steak. Be A Man." Campaign From Goodman Steak House (VIDEO)  There are some things that don’t go together—white clothes and mud, bad breath and kissing—and you’d think raw meat and naked skin would be up there as well. Not according to Goodman Steak House and their…8. New Storefront Ventures - Microsoft Launched Its First Retail Store in Scottsdale (GALLERY)  Microsoft has taken a cue from its competitors (namely Apple) and opened its first storefront retail operation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Microsoft launched its first retail store with long lines, excited…9. Nutritious Vending Snacks - Lo Fresco's Healthy Vending Machines Offer Good-for-You Foods (GALLERY)  To me, it’s almost a nightmare—the fact that normal snacks like chips, chocolate bars and cookies will give way to fruit, veggies, and granola bars. But whether I like it or not, healthy vending machines…10. Shoepod Packaging - Molded Pulp Carton Mimics Nature's Containers  Boulder, Colorado-based Newton Running produces shoes with a low environmental impact, so it makes sense that the company would also want to make environmentally sustainable packaging to ship them in.…11. High-End Fashion History - Prada Book Documents Its Place in Culture, Fashion & Art (VIDEO)  Italian fashion powerhouse Prada has announced the release of a book documenting the label’s history in fashion, art, architecture and film. The Prada book, otherwise known as 'Prada: Creativity, Modernity,…12. Trippy Tea Party Displays - Burobeluga Window Arrangements are Pieces of Art (GALLERY)  Window displays are basically pieces of art, with all the work and design that goes into them. This can be said about the design team at Burobeluga window displays.
Using similar themes and colors as…13. Stylish Craft Storefronts - Sew Crafty in Houston is for Upscale DIYers (GALLERY)  The Sew Crafty store in Houston is the latest example of how DIY is gaining ground. Stores like Build-a-Bear used to have a stigma attached to them (and were only acceptable when celebrating children’s…14. High Fashion Rentals - The RentTheRunway Website Allows You to Lease Designer Clothes  If you have ever wanted a high fashion designer garment straight from the runway but balked at paying the multi-thousand dollar price tag that comes attached, then the RentTheRunway website is for you.…15. Anti-Consumerist Packaging - Generic No Frills Product Marketing Takes a Simple Route (GALLERY)  I’ve noticed more and more generic brand items showing up on supermarket shelves. Ostensibly, these products appeal to frugal shoppers looking to stretch their dollars during tough financial times.
The…16. Jenga Retail Spaces - The Stacked Source Flagship Store from HUGE Architecture (GALLERY)  It’s hard to think of anything better to represent the selection at a fashionable shoe store than a giant display resembling stacked shoe boxes. That’s what HUGE Architecture did for the Source flagship…17. 10 Bizarre Barcode Variations - Innovations Worthy of a Universal Product Code (CLUSTER)  When retail commercial items become mainstream enough to earn a barcode—Universal Product Code (UPC) numbers—one can safely assume that these items have earned some degree of widespread popularity.
Perhaps…18. Perma-Pop-Up Shops - 'BrandNew Stores' Creates Fixed Spaces for Temporary Retail (GALLERY)  The whole concept of a pop-up shop is that it’s temporary and fleeting, which is why I thought it odd that a company called BrandNew Stores would be offering a permanent location for pop-ups. Investigating…19. Synthetic Wishbones - Totally Unreal & Guilt Free Lucky Break Wishbones are Plastic (VIDEO)  Synthetic Lucky Break Wishbones allow everyone -- even vegans -- to participate in the traditional holiday fun of breaking the turkey wishbone in a friendly tug-of-war. The winner, determined by who is…20. Department Store Gold Bouillon - Harrods Aurous Product Offering is Luxe But Lucrative (GALLERY)  If you live in the UK and have money to invest in gold, bouillon bars are now available as close as the local Harrods.
This move comes as part of a collaboration with Produits Artistiques Metaux Precieux…21. Real Life Online Stores - The eBay Pop-Up Store is a Shift in Web-Based Shopping  The best thing about shopping online is not having to try anything on, the worst part is not having to try anything on. So, the new eBay pop-up store is both the best and worst thing ever.
Opening on…22. Vending Machine Burgers - Tateishi Burger Has Patrons Order Burgers via Machine (VIDEO)  There are vending machines for books, jeans, and produce so it's only natural that vending machine burgers would pop up somewhere. And that somewhere is Japan (of course), at Tateishi Burger, which is…23. Intuitive Tech Shopping Sites - Measy Quizzes You to Help Decide Which Gadget is for You (GALLERY)  There are so many brands and styles of electronics today that Measy is long overdue. Measy is a site that helps you choose which device is for you. Sites like CNET and Gdgt are great resources, but Measy…24. Artsy Picture Book Shopping - The Made and Sold Art Book Allows You to Shop for Products (GALLERY)  The Made and Sold art book is a compilation of many different artists and their toys, t-shirts, zines, prints and other things they have created, which are available for purchase.
The Made and Sold art…25. Simplistic Gadget e-Buying - The Measy Electronics Website Makes Shopping That Much Easier (GALLERY)  If you hate trolling through the online pages of BestBuy or FutureShop, then the Measy electronics website is for you.
The Measy electronics website helps you pick out the perfect gadget by first taking…26. Designer Markers - Stella McCartney Launches Markers for the Gap so Kids Can Customize Their Clothes (GALLERY)  From high fashion to markers? No, Stella McCartney has not gone mad, but rather has made a set of designer markers for kids to go along with her children's clothing collection at the Gap.
The designer…27. Original Online Stores - Supermarket Sarah Turns a Living Room Wall into an Online Display (GALLERY)  Supermarket Sarah is an online store with an original display concept: put everything for sale on one wall. Simple, yes, but surprisingly effective. The site puts up an eclectic selection of art and crafts…28. Online Human Translators - OneHourTranslation.com Gets Native Speakers to Help You (VIDEO)  OneHourTranslation.com provides high quality, fast human translations, and is available on a 24/7 basis. They have a community of over 8,000 professional certified translators around the world guarantee…29. Auction Webzines - eBay Launches the Inside Source Magazine  eBay has announced the launch of The Inside Source, a new online digital magazine. The focus of the magazine will be primarily on fashion, offering insights into what eBay shoppers are searching for, or…30. Real-Time Sale Alerts - Apnoti Tells Customers When Pricing Errors and Sales Occur (GALLERY)  To the savvy shopper or bargain-hunter, knowing the exact time a sale begins is a heaven-sent gift—a gift that German site Apotni delivers.
Apotni provides customers with real-time price search, indexing… |
