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. 

Nike @ Liberty, London

Its been so difficult this week to find interesting schemes as just about everyone is in Sale right now and have their windows blanked out so their is nothing to view.  Anyway, thankfully we have found some hidden gems such as this collaboration between Liberty and Nike; Pixel Pack.  We've also noticed that Hermes have a fantastic scheme right now so we will include them too this week in conjunction with some other interesting 'bits' until we pass this drab part of the retail calender.

Moschino, London

Mannequin in a plastic Swan.  Need we say more?

Dolce & Gabbana, London

Have you seen the new D&G store yet here in London at the other end of Bond St. from this one?  Absolutely stunning and a must see if you like a bit of re-vintage and have a taste for the tailor-made.  Here at the other end of Bond st. towards Piccadilly, we have the Dolce and Gabbana store sporting the cacti and pebble look right now.  This store has had some fairly abstract schemes recently which have been so interesting to view and a fantastic change from the usual stuff we see from some of the other Luxe brands right now.

Asprey, London

These are probably some of the trickiest run of windows to work with, we would imagine?  On the one hand we have this enormous glazed area and on the other the tiniest of products; and fabulous quality of course.  We rarely view this store from this angle (as we are stood  in the centre of the road here) so this scheme does appear to be rather corporate head office looking don't you think?  However, as the street is very narrow as indeed is the pavement area, the passing footfall only have a very close view point from which to fawn and lust after the product and therefore grabbing the attention and keeping the focus of the passersby at eye level is rather critical.  A very difficult job well thought through we think?