My Second Week at Urban!!!!

Paul the Manager of Visual Merchandising was back from London, where he helped revamp the Oxford store. First thing in the morning we were just moving stock to different places they are updating the men’s sections. I just had to move and fold clothing, fill the shelves if they were empty, by either spreading stock out or filling the spaces with merchandise such as glasses, books, CDs or shoes. These are pictures of the spaces I filled and helped fill.

Maccabees new album!!!!

Love the camera!!!!

What I love about my placement is being hands on and feeling like I actually work there. I’ve learnt so much about merchandising and loads about how Urban merchandising works. I feel just from week 1 that I knew what to do and how things work. Everyone has been proper helpful and lovely to me which has defiantly helped me learn more and feel confident it what I’m doing.

Right back to today I didn’t go to lunch till 1 today and went to Boots to get a meal deal, as I forgot my pack up. After lunch Paul showed me around and he was drawing sketches of some knew layouts for the store, as before they do anything they need to sketch their ideas and show the in store carpenter his ideas, and the carpenter magic’s the ideas up. He works so hard and the furniture and things he makes are amazing, this is something he has made.....

Also today on the men’s floor one of the staff how studies film at uni and is in her finial year was putting some art work up which is to do with her final project. I didn’t get a picture of her work but I’ll take some tomorrow and put it in tomorrow’s blog post!    

 Paul then went off somewhere so I helped Neesha out tagging some Chinos for a short while and brought up four books on Walls I chose to go out in the men’s selection.

 Then after that Paul took me around the store explaining everything to me. I have always wanted to know how they do there turbans on their mannequins , so I asked Paul if he would show me how it’s done, it’s actually quite simple, these are some step by step pics of Paul demonstrating puting the turban on the mannequins head...

When walking around the store Paul he was talking me through all the different brands and I thought I would add this in the my blog, cos I didn’t know this is that Urban collaborates with brand names and they only sell then in Urban, picture of one of the brands Urban collaborates with....

These are some of my favourite items from today section today....

Men's T-shirt

Women's Sleeveless Jumper

Also Paul explained Urban is all about creating a life style like they want each section to work of one person from the clothing, accessories to the book and camera on the table.

Urban is about being cutting edgy, quirky, fun, trendy, and cool and relaxing a place you can chill out in! They have a sofa with a table which the in store carpenter built which has books on it so people can relax and read.

Then Paul took me to the office to show me pics of a newly opened Urban store in Berlin where he went to help set up and he also showed me pics of the Urban on Oxford street in London where he also help this time to revamp the store.

 Then it was the end of the day and Paul decided to research my last name, as it is slightly strange! But it wasn’t successful!!!!