Versace is an Italian luxury fashion company founded in 1978 in Milan that designs, manufactures, and retails haute couture, accessories, jewelry, and home goods featuring the Medusa logo; the company is led by Chief Designer Donatella Versace and known for its opulent boutique stores with mosaic floors, plaster walls, and creative merchandise displays.
Versace is an Italian luxury fashion company founded in 1978 in Milan that designs, manufactures, and retails haute couture, accessories, jewelry, and home goods featuring the Medusa logo; the company is led by Chief Designer Donatella Versace and known for its opulent boutique stores with mosaic floors, plaster walls, and creative merchandise displays.
Versace is an Italian luxury fashion company founded in 1978 in Milan that designs, manufactures, and retails haute couture, accessories, jewelry, and home goods featuring the Medusa logo; the company is led by Chief Designer Donatella Versace and known for its opulent boutique stores with mosaic floors, plaster walls, and creative merchandise displays.
Versace is an Italian luxury fashion company founded in 1978 in Milan that designs, manufactures, and retails haute couture, accessories, jewelry, and home goods featuring the Medusa logo; the company is led by Chief Designer Donatella Versace and known for its opulent boutique stores with mosaic floors, plaster walls, and creative merchandise displays.
• Versace is a world-famous Italian luxury fashion company
and trade name founded by Gianni Versace in 1978. • Headquarter at Milan, Italy. • It designs, manufactures, distributes and retails fashion and lifestyle products including haute couture, accessories, jewellery, watches, eyewear, fragrances, and home furnishings all bearing the distinctive Medusa logo. • Donatella versace is the current vice president of versace as well as its chief designer. Logo • The Versace logo is the head of Medusa, a Greek mythological figure.
• Gianni Versace chose
Medusa as the logo because she made people fall in love with her and they had no way back. He hoped his company would have the same effect on people Store Exterior • Versace went big at the Fifth Avenue storefront windows with high-definition video walls displaying a Versace runway show. • The oversize displays served as the backdrop for live models wearing the season’s hottest looks, drawing crowds on the sidewalks outside. • They used Christie MicroTiles, a new video display technology, to provide strong image quality and a wide color palette. Store interior
• The store looks complete with
smoky mirrored panels, gray walls, industrial ceilings, brass fixtures, digital screens and a juice bar.
• The clothing collections are
defined by sharp silhouettes in black, hot pink and bold abstract prints, plus an abundance of its signature gold lion heads, complete with manes. Floor and Wall Covering
• The showpiece is a mosaic
floor, based on an especially beautiful example of a Cosmati floor found in the Church of Santa Prassede in Rome, with the brand’s distinctive insignia.
• Soft, curving walls and shelves
in rough plaster enclose the space with echoes of Byzantine form. The overall effect is opulent yet contemporary.
• Versace boutique at shanghai.
Lighting
• To direct customer attention
to the display.
• Flood lighting on the bag
display area.
• Beam spread technique on
the mannequins. Color
• Help the merchandise to
look more interesting.
• Capture shoppers attention.
• Pure white luxury.
Contrasts and oppositions between black and white, glossy and matt are the main point of the Concept exclusively studied to praise the merchandise Versace Merchandise Display • The red outfit in the middle grabs the eye even more because of it being different from the other outfits, which becomes the focal point of the visual display.
• Animal print background
goes with the collection and then a large Versace picture to break up the printed background. Contd.
• Not having a full white
back board was a good idea. The back board goes with the outfit on the mannequin.
• Nice use of the logo and
overall, there is a sense of elegance. It's clean, cut and simple which accents the outfit.. Contd. • All the mannequins are wearing a different outfit. • The over sized "VERSACE" was creatively placed around the mannequins and on the floor. With the Greek symbol. • Nice use of space and even though there is a lot in the display, it doesn't look messy or bad. • This angle is probably not the best angle to see the display. Contd. • The checkered background was a good idea to help the eye travel. In both pictures, it looks like the checker board is angling towards the middle which is where the bag and shoe is making them the focal point. • The mannequins are strategically placed so that the eye travels out but back in the middle. • The lights on the side gives a sense of being in the spot light. • Versace window display autumn 2012, Vienna – Austria. Types of Fixtures used
• Straight rack fixture Image: versace store by Arcabi associates
• Wall fixtures • Plexiglas table Store Design • Versace’s accessories store design in Milan.
• They are almost entirely
transparent and made of Plexiglas, disappearing into their surroundings and creating a perfect foil for the product.
• The store look features include
some antique friezes and painted ceilings indicating a luxury store. Store Layout
• The floor plan of the
Versace Paris boutique, showing the placement of the Cosmati floor. • Free – flow layout - fixtures group in cluster - no defined traffic pattern Visual Merchandiser Oversight • Weekly styling of mannequins on boutique and implementation of seasonal floor sets.
• Ability to travel to various boutique locations,based on the
needs of the business.
• Identify brand appropriate ways to drive sales through visual
merchandising specific to each boutique in Metro; ensure appropriate action is being taken to achieve goals.
• Assist in VM training and development of store management
and visual correspondents.
• Responsible for the luxury standard maintenance and