The super fresh London based clothing label Robot Bunny have set up camp in a very tasty looking POPUP store in Brent Cross Shopping Centre.

Robot Bunny are pretty new to the scene but definitely one to watch. With clothing, comics, music, stickers, and now shop takeovers!!!!

Robot Bunny recently released a mixtape collab with Invincible Armour of Sensei Fm (Basement Sessions 2nd home) which you can check in the downloads section.

Check out the video below of the crew setting up shop, plus be sure to check their website here and the pics from the store in tact after the cut…

Heres the exclusive photos of the store….

Designer Lulu Guinness will be opening a pop-up store from February 8th-22nd, just of London’s Trendy Carnaby Street. Guinness will be selling her famous ‘Lips’ ranger juts in time for Valentines Day along with plenty of other items from her bag and accessories range. Anyone is more than welcome to buy me a ‘lips/lipstick’ neckless. No one? Okay, didn’t think so.

สวัสดีครับ พรุ่งนี้ก็เป็นวันงาน Culture One ซึ่งเป็นงานดนตรีอิเล็กโทรนิคที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในกรุงเทพ ทางร้านINFRDก็ได้มีโอกาศไปเปิด Pop-up store ซึ่งทางร้านก็จะมีเสื้อรุ่นพิเศษเเละไฟledมาจำหน่าย ลองเเวะเข้ามาดูกันครับ

We were more excited going in than leaving

The grafitti was my probably favourite thing in the shop

They did have some really nice plates (overly expensive in true Colette style)

This past weekend I finally went to the Colette pop up store / Cube store in Brick Lane that I’ve heard such good things about. I don’t know if I missed anything or if they’re closing it soon, but there was nothing there..?! Just the Cube car and a small gift shop. Either I didn’t get the point of the store or I was just too late on this one and missed the whole thing…?

Reckless Ericka will be having a week-long pop-up store at Stamford House. (yay! its near school:D)

Starting 7 January, troop down and be a proud owner of Reckless Ericka or SS2010 Elohim by Sabrina Goh collections.

According to the website, it also says that older collections will be going at special rates.

I can only hope that that is synonymous with affordable :/

Really lusting this mint-nude-dust tank and leggings combo. But I shall oogle from afar because I don’t have $328 spare to drop at this whim and fancy.

sigh.

Anyway, I’ll be at the Store Launch at 7.30pm on 7 January. Hope to see you there!

okthanksbacktowork!

Earlier this week, as I was headed home, I passed EA Active.  EA is rolling out a few pop-up store/demo stations to lure fitness-minded women into buying video games this holiday season.  I like the concept of the pop-up store, it reuses vacant space and offers retailers a low-risk way to try something new.  Pop-up streetfood malls anyone?

This store opened a few weeks ago, and is shiny an new the same way current retail stores are: clean lines, modern furniture, etc.

I hadn’t passed this location since it was completed, and I did a double take when I saw this sign in the front window:

Facebook, Twitter links critical to EA store signage

Twitter and other forms of social media have been critical to the success of new school food carts.  Local businesses use Yelp, respond to reviews, and place targeted local ads.  Big Business is using Twitter as a customer service channel.  And now, as witnessed above, brick and mortar retail is using social media to connect after hours.

Two questions:

• Who’s next?
• B2B marketers, what are you waiting for?

Die Tore vom Pop-up-Store “Showroom of Love” sind endlich geöffnet und der Verkauf ist in vollem Gange… Die Bilder machen definitiv Appetit auf mehr und da der Verkauf nur noch bis zum 19.12.2009 läuft, hier noch einmal der dezente Hinweis, dass Ihr Euch doch bitte schleunigst dorthin begeben möchtet… !!!

Hier nochmal der Flyer, mit allen Infos!

Amazon.com has risen through the ranks of the internet to become one of the biggest retailers in the world, valued at $59.1 billion.  For a company that wasn’t profitable in its first few years, that is quite remarkable.  In a lot of way, its brings Walmart’s convenience to the internet by creating a one stop shop synonymous with online shopping.

In recent years, Amazon has continued to build its loyal followers through program like Amazon Prime.  For a nominal yearly fee, Amazon Prime members receive free two day shipping and $3.99 overnight shipping on most items.  For a lot of consumers, the nominal fee would override the savings, that is, until you start going to Amazon first.  Now, when I am looking for everything from books and electronics to clothes and make-up, I stop by Amazon first to compare prices.

Well, now that Amazon has conquered the digital world, they are expanding to a brick and mortar pop-up store in London.  Hard to believe that the tech bubble was only about ten years ago, when everyone feared that retail shopping was dead.  Now, digital stores are trying to monopolize all shopping.

Wipe that smile off your face, this guy won't be sending your packages anymore...

Amazon’s store will be one where you buy online and pick-up in a store.  Just in time for the Holiday season.  Pretty neat stuff, Amazon.  Wish I were in Britain!

Update 12/7/09:  Turns out this, as reported by the Sunday Times, is just a rumor!  A spokesperson said that they have no plans to open a store for the holidays.

Also, in reference to Ellen Cayer, it would certainly be much more cost effective to continue only online, the point of opening the store would be two fold: to experiment with the order online, pick up in store model popular in stores like Target and  Bed Bath and Beyond and for PR.  A temporary pop-up store would be a major draw for consumers.

Introducing Lacoste’s 2009 Collector’s Series in which they have teamed up with the Campana brothers, Fernando and Humberto, to create fabulous polo tees applique with the famous Lacoste crocodile logo in various creative ways.

They really should smile more. But anyways..

Here’s the Special Edition featuring a small nest of crocodiles, which I feel is really eye-catchingly whimsical.

For Men’s:

For Women’s:

And here’s the Close-Up of the entire logo, featuring 8 of Lacoste crocodiles:

Next up is the Limited Edition plastered with many nests of crocodiles. I feel it’s abit of an overkill though.

For Men’s:

For Women’s (The crocodiles are more scattered akin to covering your bodice in moss/algae):

Next up comes the Super Limited Edition with hundreds of the Lacoste logo embroidered and moulded into a wearable polo!

The concept is actually amazing. It is also available to order in the standard Lacoste green, silver or gold.

For Men’s:

For Women’s:

And all these come in a neat packaging!

To get your hands on one of these, head down to your nearest Lacoste store, or if you’re in Singapore, then head down to the:

Campanas+Lacoste pop-up store, 02-01 Hilton Singapore

Tel: 6737 5851

The Campanas+Lacoste pop-up store opens only till 17th December 2009.

So hurry!

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the mydeco office – yesterday we put up our decorations (complete with a very elegant singing Santa) and this morning we’ve been enjoying the soothing tones of Wizzard. Despite all this festive excitement, we still made sure we had time to scour the web for today’s best design stories which are listed below for your literary pleasure.

mydeco’s pick of the top three stories:

1.Cool Hunting: Gentlemen of Bacongo

Image credit: Cool Hunting

Dandy fashion may be making a comeback in the U.K., but for a group known as Le Sapeurs, dressing-up to the nines is a way of life. Don’t let the French name fool you: these gentlemen are not strutting down the temperate streets of Paris, but a much more unlikely style capital – a small shanty town in the Congo. In his new book, photographer Daniele Tamagni examines this contradictory world of designer clothing and abject poverty.

2. London Design Guide: Thorsten van Elten pop-up shop

Image credit: London Design Guide

It would seem that retailers everywhere are capitalising on the thrill of novelty, as pop-up shops continue to thrive worldwide. London’s latest transient offering comes from Thorsten van Elten, whose pop-up store will be open until 13 December in the Brompton Design District. Despite bearing a distinctly unoriginal name (‘Thorsten’s 12 days of Christmas’), the store does offer some innovative gifts. This plant cup by Gitta Gschwendtner is my favourite.

3. The Telegraph: Britain’s worst Christmas tree

Image credit: The Telegraph

Being forced to wear clothes that are two sizes too big because ‘you’ll grow into them’ is often one of childhood’s most traumatic memories. It is understandable, therefore that the residents of Sacriston, County Durham were slightly incensed when the council fed them this very line in response to complaints about the town Christmas tree. At just 4ft, the fern is dwarfed by the 15ft frame provided to decorate it, but councillors are insisting that one day ‘the tree will be as strong as the community.’ If global warming doesn’t kill it first, that is.

The best of the rest:

Daily Mail: Google property portal threatens online housing market

Daily Mail: Vote for Witney: David Cameron’s constituency is an affordable option

The Times: Noughties Property: the ups and downs

The Times: Kenwood Place luxury flats may show te direction of the property market

The Times: Wanted: an artist with £5m and a penchant for Kensington

The Telegraph: Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2009: The winners

The Telegraph: Tractor Ted property for sale

The Telegraph: Property market: power of the bike

Design milk: Coco mini bar

dornob: Wholly concrete home foundation

That’s all from us this week, but we’ll be back on Monday, fresh and ready for another week of daily news. (Or we might be grumpy and hungover, but either way we’ll have plenty of new design stories for you).

After breakfast at Old Wives’ Tale last Friday we ran around the Pearl for a while..

They were admiring a mustache (or something like that) in a photo in the Powell’s Gallery. The exhibit was called “When Country Was Country,” I think.

I took this in the purple (I think) room, my favorite. It has windows that look out on the street and its filled with photography, art, and culture books.

Above: Jacob, below: a picture he took of me

Side note: I think today is the last day I will be wearing skirts and tights for a while! It was 33 degrees this morning! Should we be expecting snow soon, I wonder?

On the street corner outside

Then………..we went to go try out some electric bikes!

Hank’s brother just started working for a new electric bike shop in the Pearl so we got to go ride them around the block. It was GREAT. Seriously! With an electric bike there would be no more awkward attempts to get your pedals to move again when the light at the intersection turns green. There would probably also be a lot fewer shapely bike riders… But I’ll be looking forward to the day when these get common (read: cheap) enough to buy.

Who rides a bike sitting up that straight?

Back-to-back reflection photos!

Further to the right was a sign that said "Pop-up Store," and in almost the same instant we wondered out loud what "pop-up store" could mean, we saw this sign.

Is it just me? Have you heard of this kind of store before?

Anyway, I leave you with this:

What do you think? Did he make it?

*click images for full view

lucky penny’s social calendar is fully booked this month. happy december! le plan ce soir… a shop and sip with her bestie.

the burroughes designer department store (her second pop-up opening this week) promises to inspire and delight every loved one on lucky penny’s holiday wish list… featuring the best in toronto fashion, beauty, design and home. philip sparks, bread & butter skincare and mercy to name a few.

this 4 day event is located at the old 1907 burroughes furniture co. ltd. building at 639 queen street west. (lucky penny was there three weeks ago for frocktail. the designer dress silent auction raised $23,000 for juvenile diabetes research foundation. bravo!)

party starts at 6 o’clock. with an exclusive piano performance by todor kobakov at 7pm. regular store hours are as follows:

thursday, december 3rd: 4pm – 9pm (opening party 6pm – 9pm)
friday, december 4th: 11am – 9pm
saturday, december 5th: 11am – 9pm
sunday, december 6th: 11am – 6pm

après le shopping, lucky penny and her gorgeous partner-in-crime will be down the street at barchef. flirting with the handsome molecular mixologist at work… two mojitos, svp.

lucky penny can’t keep a secret, as you know.

she was invited to preview holt renfrew’s new pop-up shop last evening. here’s the skinny… and after a few glasses of moët, of course.

for the next 5 days, this temporary store occupies the showroom of posh condo-to-be, fashion house (560 king street west). the words 560 king are smeared across the windows in their signature magenta. a holts delivery truck is parked out front.

a carefully curated collection, as seen by barbara atkin (vp fashion direction), of women’s and men’s clothing are displayed on raw-edged ladders and racks wrapped in muslin. unisex accessories and trinkets for the home balance on risers and boxes of all sizes.

lucky penny and her credit card were on their best behaviour… but a mental shoppy list was made nonetheless.

she loved the red and black checkered smythe blazer (leather shoulder patches = adorable), olive green see by chloé tote with a sketch of a grumpy dog, and nest’s freesia kiwi candles. there were also plaid burberry hi-tops, naked & famous jeans… and don’t get her started on those beautiful, extra-large balenciaga bags!

operating hours are a tad strange, so take note:

wednesday, december 2nd: 11am – 7pm
thursday, december 3rd: 2pm – 9pm
friday, december 4th: 12pm – 8pm
saturday, december 5th: 11am – 7pm
sunday, december 6th: 12pm – 6pm

Der SHOWROOM OF LOVE eröffnet pünktlich zum Weihnachtsgeschäft für nur kurze Zeit seine Pforten im Hinterhof der Kölner Bismarckstraße 37, vom 07. – 19.12.09 könnt ihr dort direkt vom Vertreter Unikate, Samples und andere ausgewählte Stücke eurer Lieblingsmarken erstehen… Also hin da!

I spent Friday evening working at the very last ghd style lounge in Cape Town. The ghd style lounge is a pop-up salon that we’ve been touring around Joburg, Durban and Cape Town over the last few weeks. The idea is consumers register at a microsite www.ghdstylediary.co.za and we choose a limited number of winners to attend with four friends. They get a makeover from a ghd expert, make-up from our partners on the event Benefit and a play with a self-portrait shooting photo booth. This was the second year we’ve run the event and the reaction both in terms of applications to attend and media coverage has been great. Sad to say however this is the last time we’ll run it in its current for. However very excited about the new incarnation under a different name and with a fairytale theme to match the new ad direction. Special thanks to Hammer Live Brands who brought the events to life and found some amazing spaces to use.

Nissan Cube per The Cube Store

Sembra una cosa fantastica: un Pop-up store firmato Colette che arriva (arrivato il 26 novembre) a Londra e rimarrà nella zona East London all’Old Truman Brewery fino al 31 gennaio 2010. Dico sembra perché da quello che leggo non è così semplice accedere al The Cube Store. A differenza di altri negozi temporanei, possono entrare solo quelli che sono sulla guest list, e per accedervi bisogna o iscriversi online su Cubelist o farsi dare un invito dal conducente di una delle Nissan Cube che girano per la città londinese. Entrambe le cose molto difficili e mi sembra tutto troppo complicato.

E così forse saranno in pochi a godere dei prodotti, della musica, delle installazioni, dei filmati giapponesi dello store. Il che oltre ad essere un peccato non ha molto senso. E quindi l’operazione PR per rendere esclusiva l’iniziativa di fatto può trasformala in un’esclusione, perdendo di visto oltretutto l’obiettivo di pubblicizzare la Nissan Cube. Ma davvero la gente ha voglia di perdersi in tutto questo? Ancora siamo a questi finti snobismi indirizzati a quei pochi che pensano fuori dagli schemi, quando l’unico obiettivo è profilare i clienti (basta vedere le domande per accedere alla guest list, chiedono nome, età, sesso, indirizzo di casa, indirizzo email). Quando si dice andare oltre…

Via | Coutorture

Um novo projeto que desembarcou na Rua Oscar Freire esta semana promete movimentar o mercado brasileiro de moda. É a Pop Up Store, sob o comando da jovem empresária Fabiana Justus, que traz para São Paulo um conceito inovador que une o fast fashion ao “editorial store”, inspirado nas melhores lojas do mundo nesse segmento.
Em um espaço de 170 m², a loja evoca experiências de compra sensoriais e celebra o novo luxo: personalizado, menos pretensioso e sem ostentação. Afinal, oferece produtos que trazem o que há de mais trendy na moda, mas sempre com preços acessíveis ao público brasileiro.
A Pop Up valoriza a praticidade, pois divide suas coleções por lifestyles. Há divisões para as mulheres mais clássicas e sofisticadas (Chic), românticas (Lovely) e também para as que seguem um estilo mais ligado à música e atitude (groupie), entre outras.

Pop Up Store
Rua Oscar Freire, 512, Jardins

Fonte: Alice Ferraz

Freitag der 13. und trotzdem gibt es noch schnell eine positive Info zu verbreiten: Nach dem großen Erfolg der ersten Runde, folgt nun aus logischer Konsequenz, die zweite Eröffnung des Pop-up & Gallery Stores von UNDPLUS. Dieser ist ebenfalls wieder in der Torstrasse /Berlin Mitte zu finden! Besonders möchten wir Euch aber noch auf die Vernissage am heutigen Abend ab 18 Uhr hinweisen – Dort trifft man auf nette Leute, die Protagonisten, sowie Musik und kühle Drinks.

Allgemeine Öffnungszeiten vom 14. – 24.12.09 / Mo. – Sa. 12-20h