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A showcase of the most exciting innovative and successful window displays worldwide this book offers inspiration and guidance to visual merchandisers and retailers who need to create eye-catching window designs that will increase sales. Stores have to deliver their merchandise in a competitive imaginative and distinctive style and never more so than now when consumers have less to spend. The challenge is not only to grab customers attention and encourage them to shop but to promote a stores brand and keep shoppers informed of fashion trends. Seven chapters cover key topics for the visual merchandiser each with a gallery of photographs of stores in Belgium Spain Italy and Hong Kong as well as London and New York demonstrating how and why each window is successful. Colour is a great tool to
promote a trend Seasonal Windows exploit the key shopping seasons and encourage the buying of gifts while following Trends in fashion food or homewares and translating them quickly into a window display is a key skill for a visual merchandiser. Graphics and Photography are cost-effective and efficient tools for delivering a message or inform the customer or use Lighting to add drama whether spotlighting products or flooding an entire window. Theatre shows off exuberant and avant-garde displays created to wow an audience of passers-by. Quirky Windows allow the merchandiser to realise their wildest ideas with spectacular results.
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A showcase of the most exciting innovative & successful window displays worldwide this book offers inspiration & guidance to visual merchandisers & retailers who need to create eye-catching window designs that will increase sales. Stores have to deliver their merchandise in a competitive imaginative & distinctive style & never more so than now when consumers have less to spend. The challenge is not only to grab customers attention & encourage them to shop but to promote a stores brand & keep shoppers informed of fashion trends. Seven chapters cover key topics for the visual merchandiser each with a gallery of photographs of stores in Belgium Spain Italy & Hong Kong as well as London & New York demonstrating how & why each window is successful. Colour is a great tool to promote a trend Seasonal Windows exploit the key shopping seasons & encourage the buying of gifts while following Trends in fashion food or homewares & translating them quickly into a window display is a key skill for a visual merchandiser. Graphics & Photography are cost-effective & efficient tools for delivering a message or inform the customer or use Lighting to add drama whether spotlighting products or flooding an entire window. Theatre shows off exuberant & avant-garde displays created to wow an audience of passers-by. Quirky Windows allow the merchandiser to realise their wildest ideas with spectacular results.

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New York - A United States State. Commonly known as the Big Apple
Eye - An organ which detects light
Spain - A country within the EU.
deliver - The method by which something is delivered fomr one location to another
Key - A physical or virtual device or code used for opening something
Graphics - A general term for visual aspects of an item/display
Colour - The categorised spectrum of light visable to humans
Italy - a country in Europe.
Spectacular - Something that catches that eye due to its eye catchingness.
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