Share Successful retailers know that a good window display should sell “emotions”, not just display product. People buy more when they feel an emotional connection to the product. In the photo above all of the products displayed – the candles, the fountain, the book, the eye mask – create a
Share While this is certainly a non-traditional way to display jewelry. You have to admit that it catches your eye. This display is from a Lanvin store, a trendsetting retailer in both fashion and visual display. We sell all kinds of new and used mannequin hands and arms if you
Share If you haven’t put up Valentine’s Day display in your store window yet, you still have before Monday. Here are some of the best displays we’ve seen to help inspire you to create your own. Even if you don’t sell products traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day like flowers, chocolate
Share When was the last time you saw mannequins in a grocery store? If you shop at certain Whole Foods locations you might see them all the time. Once upon a time health food stores were small, expensive and did not carry a large variety of products. Whole Foods changed
Share Since most of our customers are independent retailers, I am always on the lookout for creative and budget friendly ideas that they can do to make their window displays more interesting. In 2009 Mannequin Madness created an affiliate with London based Mannequin Ltd so I started subscribing to blogs
Share One retailer is taking a cue from the growing social acceptable of gay and lesbian relationships, and now has a Valentine’s window display that features not one, but TWO gay “couples” in their window display. It is rare to see a window display (outside of the Castro in San
Share If it is true that we are judged by the company we keep, I’m in big trouble since as the owner of Mannequin Madness I spend my days being surrounded by a bunch of “dummies.” But recently my luck changed for the better as I had the opportunity to
Share When was the last time you saw an interracial “couple” in a romantic pose in a store window display? We have never seen one. And we look at a lot of window displays from visual merchandising blogs all over the world. The windows display from Holt Renfrew, an upscale
Share I saw this post on the visual merchandising blog I Do Windows and thought they had a great idea on how you can change the look of your realistic (or abstract mannequin. Here is what the blog post said: (peter please put this text in the paragraph below in
Share If you have been reading our blog you know that in addition blogging about mannequins, we blog about good visual merchandising. We are convinced (through feedback from our clients) that good visuals in the window translate into increased sales. So although we certainly want to promote the use of
