what's next

side-note: Let's hope that BR gets it right where many of its US clothing store chains brethren haven't when opening outposts in the UK. Witness £90 shirts at Brooks Brothers, or £70 jeans at Abercrombie & Fitch: thanks but no thanks.

mercy mercy

at Burberry, less is definitely not more. All I bought was one tie, and they put it in an elaborate package inside a bag fit to hold Imelda Marcos' shoes collection. Oh, and a ribbon? Really?

The receipt was put in its own not-so-little portfolio, maybe so it feels it's worth more than the paper it's printed on? And so we can kill a few more trees, just for the heck of it I suppose.

de Nîmes

I need to get some new jeans. Even if I tend to prefer a loose fit when it comes to denim (slim fit is evil), I have to admit that out of my three pairs, two are too big for me. So it came as a nice surprise to me this morning to see a poster (no, not that one) informing everyone of the start of the Galeries Lafayette's 3J. The Galeries, as people call them here, is one of the oldest and most well-known department stores in Paris (there's also a chain of them all around France). And it just so happens they have a Lucky Brand Jeans "area". Thus I'll be heading there before this weekend to try and see whether they have something for me, preferably with a delicious -30% symbol attached to the price tag.

black is the new black

there's this poster for a Hugo Boss ad campaign I've been seeing everywhere recently. In particular, there's one at the bus stop where I catch my bus after work, and it's become a favorite of mine. Not only is the girl used in the ad stunning (probably some famous model, I think I've already seen her somewhere), but the composition of the shot is perfect, illustrating the kind of classy urban environment that I'm thinking Hugo Boss would like to be associated with, and that's with a plain gray background. Photographs can be effective that way.

I couldn't find an actual pic of the poster, but here's a screen print I took on the HB site:

Don't know how long ad campaigns usually last, but I'm guessing not more than a few weeks. If so, it seems I should be bracing myself for the inevitable replacement of this new fave by a Gap one, or worse, Herta Knacki. Ain't nothing worse than seeing a food ad when you're about to start your treck home.