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The Bergdorf Goodman Christmas Windows based around the theme “A Compendium of Curiosities” – inspired by the work of Escher & Lewis Carroll. Designer – David Hoey. Image Creditwww.flickr.com/photos/wallyg

Bergdorf Goodman are renowed for their Christmas windows, headed by designer David Hoey. There are three sets of windows in New York – 57th Street, Fifth Ave & 58th St. The Men’s store theme this year was based on Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox the Movie, based on the novel by Roald Dahl. Image Credits

Michael Roberts from Vanity Fair designed this window for Gucci – Snowman in Africa. Image Credit

Debenhams Diesel Enchanted Village Boston Image Credits, 1&2, 3, 4-6,

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Nobody can say jetBlue lacks either a sense of humor or creativity.  They recognise that many people don’t fly jetBlue and even though they’re expanding routes, passengers can’t always fly with them.  So they designed a series of products to assist those poor people who have to fly with another airline – in typical jetBlue […]

Ebay’s first “clicks & mortar” store has opened at 3 West 57th Street on 5th Avenue.  Its a temporary pop-up retail store only open till 29th November.    The store is broken into six “personalities” – Stylista, Fashionista, Techie, Urbanite, Gamer & Youngster and shoppers have the opportunity to view 400 featured products from the thousands […]

In the ever-increasing range of weird Wii peripherals comes “Baby and Me” by 505 Games.  Its a baby doll that you can stick your Wii remote into, which allows the doll to react by giggling, gurgling or crying through the Wii remote speaker.   The doll doesn’t just giggle & cry though, it comes with Balance […]

This Christmas Ebay will come out of the digital age and go analog with a pop-up bricks & mortar store on West 57th St in NYC. Opening Nov 20th the 500m2 store will stock some of the most desirable and cutting edge fashion currently available including an exclusive selection of Norma Kamali, handbags from Michael […]

Most airports have chocolate shops these days, its one of the fastest growing travel retail categories. Aside from Brussels and to some degree Zurich though, I haven’t found many airport chocolate shops which really impressed me – which stood out as something unique or special.  Vosges Haut-Chocolat at O’Hare (T1 B Concourse) changed that, with […]

Most airports smell fairly average. Nothing too bad but certainly nothing inviting or memorable. Despite how much airports are focussing on the traveller experience, few airports have even considered looking to scent. Only one I’m aware of doing it for revenue benefit (amongst other things of couse) is a little UK airport – East Midlands. […]

Versace CEO Giancarlo Di Risio was emphatic when he stated that Versace would not drop its prices due to the economic climate. However, the fashion house seems to have come up with another way of dealing with the less well heeled who aspire to the Versace label. they are relaunching the Versus line as a […]

Sharp has unveiled a stunning 26-foot-tall Christmas tree made of 43 Aquos LCD televisions in New York’s Grand Central Station.  Sizes of the TV’s range from 19 to 52 inches and are interspersed by pine brances.  The patterns on the screens have been designed by Japanese video artist Tsuyoshi Takashiro. Sharp TV from gizomodo.com.au Many […]

It never ceases to surprise me how difficult hotels find it to create innovative packages for the luxury market.  The Mandarin Orient have launched their Christmas package for $US130,000 which includes a limo service, diamond jewelry worth around US100,000, a diamond studded Christmas tree in the room, a gourmet dinner and the presidential suite.Predictably, whilst […]

About 8 years ago, robotic webcams which internet users could control, started to become the rage.  This has now been taken one step further in Canada with am Ottawa resident developing a software programme which allows anyone on the net to control and programme his Christmas Lights.  To make it even more interesting, he’s networked […]

Innovative hotel packages are always a challenge, luxury end ones even more so.  The Buckingham Hotel have developed a “Christmas Key to the City” package which pretty much takes the cake in terms of a luxury Christmas package – and all for a price tag of $US150,000. The package includes: A gold and diamond Christmas […]