It's Chriiiiiiistmas!

We've already taken a look at Christmas adverts this year, and now one of my favourite Christmassy thing..shop windows! Every year the big retailers spend a good year coming up with their concepts and ideas for their Christmas windows, I enjoy seeing what they've made and who's is the best! 


John Lewis

John Lewis have attempted to "wow shoppers young and old" , with their animal themed winter woodland windows. The store wanted to create inspiring displays to delight whilst still ensuring products remain the focus. They have done this by creating animals made of their products, which include a Dyson reindeer, a bear fashioned from furniture, a utensil rabbit and Turkey made from towels.

Harrods

The department store has chosen to go with a large steam train , 'The Harrods Express' for their festive window this year. Each window shows passengers in a different carriage of the locomotive.  Each luxurious carriage showcases the stores clothing, accessories and homewards.The carriages are complete with digital screens that show outside scenery and snow falling as if the train is actually moving.Apparently it took 500 hours to build and features an £80,000 dress by Ralph & Russo.

Liberty 

Liberty's Christmas windows this year show cartoon style explosions of gifts, with fairy lights blasting from the middle. This was inspired by the dazzling flash created from the pull of a christmas cracker. Gifts are displayed in the middle of the flashes on polished chrome shelves, whilst jewel-encrusted mannequins show off the party wear from this season. The store has kept with this theme and has a giant cracker bursting above their main entrance.

Selfridges

The Selfridges windows feature a giant bottle of Viktor and Rolf's Flowerbomb perfume and a host of other oversized Christmas gifts for this season, plonked on snowy mounds, surrounded by Christmas trees as though they have just dropped out of the sky, I love this window especially the giant tub of play dough thats pouring over the snow.

Harvey Nichols

Harvey Nichols' Christmas windows are colourful, glitzy and sparkling with light this year. They have used coloured bulbs to add a warm, subtle glow to the displays which feature mannequins dressed in the latest clothing from this season.The substantial amount of glitter, dangling snow flakes and brightly coloured stars give the windows a tacky christmassy feel, but thats not a bad thing! here they are..

My favourites this year are Harrods luxurious Harrods Express window display and Selfridges huge gifts on the snow window display, I can't decide which I prefer! What's your favourite festive display this year?

Dior at Harrods

Recently I visited the Dior exhibition at Harrods. The exhibition opened with a beautiful Dior dolls house with miniature rooms and silhouettes in the windows.

The exhibition was an insight into the fashion houses history, showing Dior's early pieces, some worn by Hollywoods biggest icons to Raf Simons modern gowns worn on the red carpet today.

The exhibition was a great day out, giving you a view of Dior without the price tag, as the exhibition was free! The exhibition featured garments worn by icons such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana and The Duchess of  Windsor.

Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar dress

Princess Diana's met ball dress

Dior shoes worn by The Duchess of Windsor.