New York Day 10.
Today was our last full day in New York. We travelled to 5th Avenue to visit LIM College (Laboratory Institute of Merchandising the only college in New York delivering a Bachelor Visual Merchandising course). Here we spent our time being shown around the facilities by Eric Feigenbaum Cahir and Marjorie Lee Woo Associate Chair. The [...]
New York Day 9.
Today we visited Museum of Modern Art MOMA. On the way we passed an office tower that had the most unbelievable animated Christmas display as the largest tree and decorations we had seen in New York. Moma was a very different gallery to the Guggenheim it was much larger and had both interior and exterior [...]
New York Day 7.
Today before the ARE session commenced we visited some additional showrooms at 7W 34th Street. After visiting the showrooms we walked back to Fashion Institute Technology FIT to view the exhibition of Daphne Guiness’s Collection. While we were there she made an appearance to view the exhibition herself. From FIT we made our way [...]
New York Day 8.
Today we visited the Guggenheim to view the exhibitions as well as the architecture. We saw exhibitions by Kandinsky called Painting with White Border, Pop objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection, Surface, Support, Process The 1960′s Monochrome and the main sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan. From the Guggenheim we walked Central Park ans saw the [...]
New York Day 6.
Today we attended the ARE Retail Design Collective presentation on “Visual Merchandising takes centre stage” presented by Anne DiNardo, Eric Feigenbaum, Harry Cunningham and Les Hiscoe. They spoke about the benefits to the retailer of VM and how important it is for the branding to be strongly represented and be incorporated in the displays within a [...]
New York Day 1.
Today we commence our visit to New York with a cultural experience by participating in a comprehensive Manhattan tour by bus and boat. This photo shows some of us in Central Park. The Wintergarden down next to Ground Zero The traffic was really heavy on our return to mid town with hundreds of [...]
New York Day 2.
We started today by taking the 6 line subway from our local station 96th Street to the Meatpacking District. Chelsea Market was our first destination. In the Meatpacking District Chelsea Market is the old National Biscuit Company complex. The companies ovens went cold a half century ago, when the company moved out, but newer ovens have been working [...]
New York Day 3.
Today we took the subway to Barneys New York on Madison Ave which is an emporium of beautiful things. Along with Christmas window displays they are currently featuring a complete floor of christmas gift suggestions inspired by Lady Ga Ga. This floor was outrageous in its presentation and stock and the staff were like it was [...]
New York Day 4.
Today the students continued to work on prepping the displays for the PAVE Gala for installation tomorrow. This afternoon I attended the first session to be run by ARE Retail Design Collective The session was a Retail Design Dossier presented by Material ConneXion – Materials specialists and Retail designers, Pantone -colour forcasters and Stylus - Retail Architects and held at the offices [...]
New York Day 5.
Here are the students in the front window of the New York showroom of Adele Rootstein. What a treat to be in this space filled with their latest ranges in an incredibly sensational space fully styled by their Paris based creative director who single handed makes, purchases and styles every outfit. Our showroom visit was organised through [...]
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