Yesterday at Urban

I didn’t get a chance to blog yesterday it was a busy day again what I’ve especially learnt is how full on and busy Visual Merchandising is, it’s so much fun cos you create displays, mannequin styling and layouts from scratch/start to finish and I love the pride you get when seeing the finished out come you have created or helped create.

Anyway back to yesterday again I was working on men’s wear what I started doing was moving garments and accessories around and laying and displaying everything, as some of the brands were moving to different places on the men’s floor. This is a picture of the first brand display I worked on. Also what Paul showed me is when displaying the garments be creative and match tops and bottoms on the table to give the customer outfit ideas. As you can see there was a space on the display table that needed filling, so we thought of adding sun glasses which I went on a hunt for down stairs as there is a great deal of chose. Picture of the adding of the sun glasses.

  This is a picture of the new ‘Shore Leave’ (which is one of Urban own brands) chino shorts display, which I had to fill up so there was two of every size. I love the display as the colours are so vibrant it really stands out. I also had to tag the shorts but known one told me how there was a right and wrong way of tagging as when you hang them up you don’t want the tag to be visible so I had to retag some again, least I’ll always remember!

Also before going for lunch I had to fill up one of the new wall shelving displays, I love that I got to pick and display it all myself, I picked a street style black and red cap, blue Vans, a book which added a vibrant colour and really grabs the eyes and folded a denim shirt to add to the shelving display. It’s all about creating a life style and knowing the Urban customer and also making the customer push their own styling boundaries.

This is the finished display on the first men’s floor I think the capital M looks so amazing and the frames being all different colours looks so cool especially from far away!

After lunch I finished off some little jobs then helped Paul style some male mannequins which are on the top floor in the middle. All I really did so steam iron all the clothes as he got a brief on the styling from head office and just followed that. Pictures of styling the mannequins as we went along.    

Also I took a picture of the art work done by one of the workers at Urban.

As you can see they are on the brick wall and some dotted around the bigger wall I like how it blends in and you have to go up close to see what is actually going on in the photos. I’ll get a close up picture of one of the photos next week to show the logo which is in every photo and I’ll also take a picture of the description she put up next to the art work explaining what it’s all about.