Gucci, London

Its always so difficult to to photograph the windows at this brands store along Bond street as everyone is so security conscious, however their Sloane street store is bigger and better anyway, and Gucci is sporting these blinging swings which present the merchandise.  All luxuriously produced to perfection of course.

L.K.Bennett, London

This is such an interesting scheme don't you think?  We weren't quite sure when we first saw it and how we felt about it but we do love the pixels and slightly blurred window.  The merchandise in the below image could have been presented rather more effectively of course as it does look quite value retailer, but an interesting scheme nonetheless?

Roberto Cavalli, London

We were a little surprised that we haven't included this brand before now.  Bizarre, eh?  This may possibly be due to the fact that the brand rarely do anything interesting.  But look at this little gem.  We've always seen this brand in the same light as Cardin; i.e. over done and not very interesting, although the original work from both brands was incredibly exciting.  Anyway, we screeched to a halt when we saw this scheme.  We are not massive fans of the easy solution large format graphic but we love this one.  Just look at this colour Red, just stunning and the merchandise is to die for; delicious.

Fendi, London

There's a strong whiff of Buckaroo going on here at Fendi, don't you think?  Those of us of a certain age may remember that jittery old plastic horse onto which one had to place the various pieces of baggage such as the cowboy hat, the shovel, the saddle, the frying pan and of course lets not forget the dynamite.  Of course the aim was to place as much 'baggage' onto the old delicate springy plastic horse to avoid 'excess vibration'. i.e. the stuff shot off when the horse or mule bucked, so to speak. (you really couldn't make this stuff up).  Sadly in 2006 Buckaroo was considered unsafe; it was launched in 1970 and considered unsafe in 2006?  The usual health and safety gone bonkers then.  Anyway, a great fun scheme here at Fendi and a romantic look back at times gone by.  Looks like the nostalgia trend is back again then.

John Lewis, London

We don't often include John Lewis for some unknown reason, although they do produce excellent quality schemes.  In celebration of the Coronation Festival, John Lewis have included these four dresses from their archives of sketches and prints from 1953; the year of the coronation.  How incredible is this?  We wish these guys would do more of this stuff.  In the meantime, we love this installation.

Harvey Nichols, London

If you happen to be in Knightsbridge here in London then do have a look at Harvey Nichols right now.  Wow, isn't this scheme stunning?  Layers of foam, tonnes of feathers and very glossy uber sexy mannequins rocking the latest fashions.  

Selfridges, London

Thankfully new schemes are beginning to come through so that we can now move away from Sale schemes. Here at Selfridges, with the launch of their new Denim Studio, everything is bathed on Blue, including the building here.  The windows of course look superb, so we may well include a few more images later this week.  Blue wigs, blue denim and blue just about everywhere.  Cool, clean, masculine and absolutely on trend.

Pull and Bear, London

Chain mail Sale scheme at Pull & Bear, London.  Particularly useful if there is an explosion, apparently?

Uniglo, London

This scheme slightly reminds us of the 'new age' collections between 1989-1990, don't you think?  Everything went White for a while, albeit with glittery bumbags and Silver trainers. Anyway, this is a really fresh scheme from Uniglo, oozing the coolness we really need right now.

Cos, London

We really are running out of schemes to show you right now as its all Sale, Sale, Sale, (unless you know otherwise) so here we have Cos.  There aren't many Sale schemes of interest around town right now apart from the current amazing Hackett scheme which we showed you recently who always make such an incredible effort; this is always very much appreciated.  So, we are reduced to showing you this one.  OK, well actually this isn't terrible in the slightest, these guys have very difficult spaces to work with and clearly have a wonderfully dry sense of humour.

Car Shoe, London

Car Shoe?......Car Shoe we hear you ask, well yes, it is Sale week.....ish after all so we are working hard to find something new, but right now, we have Car shoe.  Do people actually wear special shoes just to drive a car? Apparently so it seems.  So what happens when one de-cars? (as one says in pretentious circles).  Well maybe one slips into the Manolo's, Jimmy's or Louboutin's we guess?  Anyway, we did actually quite like the layers of graphics placed here even if the said 'umpalumpa' coloured 'Car Shoe' is scarily the size of the glossy 'pash-wagon' itself or maybe the car is the same size as the shoe?  In either case, either buy the shoes and get a tiny car or spend the cash on receiving therapy for having such giant sized feet you freak?  Just telling it like it is.

Tory Burch, London

We've seen quite a lot of paper sculpture over the years so this one isn't desperately original we're afraid.    Sorry to break this to you all. We have images of some of the most incredible paper installations at Bergdorfs in 2000 and of course we saw a very similar scheme to this at Chanel in around 2007 and even H&M earlier this year with their sustainable fashion installation.  Sigh, well we did say that we were struggling to find interesting things for you this week so we have had to include this brand's scheme in this instance.  Anyway, hopefully Sale will be over soon and a new wave of interesting schemes will begin to come through.  

Hermes, London

We love what this brand do more and more.  These guys ooze fun in conjunction with luxury products and we really like that.  Its OK to have a sense of humour and spend a tonne of cash, isn't it?  Having viewed how so much of this product is made, we really have to give these guys a huge amount of respect.  Each piece really is hand made and the time and effort is what you pay for.  If you want a luxury product which is produced by some of the worlds most talented artisans then shop with this brand; these guys don't pay us to say this, but having met some of the artisans and the work that they do we know that you really do get what you pay for here and whatever you buy probably will last your lifetime.