Chic Boutique

How to Make your Walk In Closet look like a Chic Boutique

Here is an example from HGTV & California Closets on transforming an attic space in your home to look like a chic boutique. Personally, while we like the space, we don’t think that style of floral wallpaper looks very chic. In fact the only thing that we think look looks

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Display Ideas for a College Bookstore

Creative Window Display Ideas for a College Bookstore

College bookstores often have the best examples of budget friendly window display ideas. We always say the good visual merchandising is based more on creativity than a big budget and you can see that in college bookstores. We love the fact that college bookstores were some of the first retailers

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The Secrets of Effective Window Displays

What gets someone who’s just walking down the street with no intention of stopping into your store, to change their mind and walk in? If you do them right, it’s your window displays. Your windows give you an incredible opportunity to invite people in to browse and hopefully buy something.

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A See Thru-Clear Mannequin Becomes a Place for Fish to Swim?

This clear mannequin was turned into an aquarium. However we aren’t sure whether this is a photo-shopped aquarium inside a clear mannequin or if it is the real thing. Either way, it sure is cool. Or else it is some type of cruel joke about women smelling like fish. Or

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Four Spring window display ideas

Four Spring window display ideas to match your store’s personality

Window Displays are like billboard announcing to passerby not only what you have for sale, but what you want customers to experience when they come inside. Here are different examples of how different retailers interpret a springtime theme. This was from a clothing store, but could also be used for

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What the French can teach American retailers about Window Displays

What the French can teach American retailers about Window Displays

These window displays from a Christian Dior store in Paris are great examples of “street theatre”. They are not theatrical as in “over the top” but instead in a subtle, understated way that is stereotypical French. Although the clothes and props are expensive, the ideas behind these window displays easily

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Mannequin Boneyard Sale (SF Bay Area customers only)

At Mannequin Madness have a variety of mannequin parts perfect for your art project, Burning Man exhibit, emergency response projects or theatre production. And we have a bunch of distressed mannequins (missing limbs, stands or damaged) that we need to clear out of our warehouse. These photos are just a

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Rootstein mannequins at Mannequin Madness

$1,000 Rootstein mannequins for $250 at Mannequin Madness

Rootstein mannequins are some of the most coveted mannequins in the industry. If you like the nice clean lines of their egghead mannequins you can stretch your visual merchandising dollars by buying the gently used ones we acquired from a retail chain. We have a large selection of the “infamous”

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Tips for creating retail window displays that sell more merchandise. (part 2)

Here are three different style retailers all selling the same product in their window: lingerie. By looking at the type of mannequin and props they use in the window can you tell which retailer is the consignment store, which one is the sex store and which is the upscale boutique?

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Minimalist Window Display for Celebrating Earth Day

Minimalist Window Display for Celebrating Earth Day

These oversized “blades of grass” made out of paper are a minimalist way of celebrating Earth Day. The mannequins have just the right pose to make them look as if they are having a leisurely time celebrating being outdoors, getting some vitamin D.

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