tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post4778712971202623935..comments2024-02-17T09:53:06.168+00:00Comments on Notes from the Slushpile: Selfridges goes for fairy tales ... with grotesque retail twists.Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07802791643303335762noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-85604610648390250462009-12-20T20:42:02.374+00:002009-12-20T20:42:02.374+00:00I saw this lot from the bus last Thursday and hate...I saw this lot from the bus last Thursday and hated them!Mary Hoffman's Newsletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-39993460278166294102009-12-21T18:47:51.097+00:002009-12-21T18:47:51.097+00:00For once I'm almost glad that I'm stuck in...For once I'm almost glad that I'm stuck in 'sleepy' Leicester doing my shopping. They're scary. Of course, the rest of the year I envy you like crazy. Shopping down Oxford Street! What a treat!Rosalind Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05363027308436257933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-4545311511675092992009-12-21T19:42:46.625+00:002009-12-21T19:42:46.625+00:00Rosalind, it was hell on Oxford Street. I couldn&#...Rosalind, it was hell on Oxford Street. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.<br><br>Book Maven, the very interesting thing about them was that they were being ironic in a way not very complimentary to the goods on show!Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007409312955086752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-85318448754450775552009-12-23T20:02:17.941+00:002009-12-23T20:02:17.941+00:00Remarkable similar to the display in Newcastle las...Remarkable similar to the display in Newcastle last Christmas... wonder if they just re-used them? No Bluebeard, though? Where is their Christmas spirit ;-)Stroppy Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-16454116533771993102009-12-25T18:55:13.954+00:002009-12-25T18:55:13.954+00:00really, Stroppy (love using your web ID)? maybe th...really, Stroppy (love using your web ID)? maybe there was a blue beard, i might have just missed it as i walked along oxford street (because no buses were stopping). how strange if they did recycle a display from elsewhere.Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007409312955086752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-26711013867167661102010-01-03T17:46:16.565+00:002010-01-03T17:46:16.565+00:00Comments from FacebookJessica: I like this store! ...<b>Comments from Facebook</b><br><br><b>Jessica</b>: I like this store! <br><br><b>Candy</b>: I try to avoid entering it, my pockets are not deep enough!<br><br><b>Sandra</b>: the previous display, a few weeks ago, was all drag queens, if I remember correctly. Selfridges is too sophisticated for me these days. And too loud. The only exception is the food hall. Give me safe old John Lewis any day.<br><br><b>Candy</b> it really is sinister and sophisticated -but then so are a lot of fairy tales. <br><br><b>Ramón</b>: Lush windows these.<br><br><b>Frankie</b>: nobody can accuse them of being too cute<br><br><b>Ramón</b> I find Cinderella's pose either erotically or "post-partumly" threatening.Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007409312955086752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-53366087204314095632010-01-08T07:09:23.611+00:002010-01-08T07:09:23.611+00:00Yes, I thought they were pretty camp. Somewhere on...Yes, I thought they were pretty camp. Somewhere on the line between sinister and badly done. <br><br>What is the role of this kind of window display, I'm asking myself now? <br><br>Clearly not, as you suggest, about advertising/selling the goods on display. More like a car or perfume ad - a certain degree of postmodern irony or just 'cleverness' that grants the viewer who claims to 'get it' a certain degree of visual cultural literacy and sophistication? <br><br>Is the high camp (that re-writing of the fairy tale from a magical realist perspective of sorts) a rejoinder to the proliferation of conformist digital screen cultures? <br><br>Is the department store harking back to its 19th century roots - all heightened spectacle and display of wealth, consumption and its underbelly?Poet in paradisehttp://www.poetinparadise.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-77441553431932126572010-01-08T08:29:34.771+00:002010-01-08T08:29:34.771+00:00Sorry I seem to have posted twice and can't de...Sorry I seem to have posted twice and can't delete my first comment. Apologies.Poet in paradisehttp://www.poetinparadise.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-3264934668517429902010-01-08T08:40:16.756+00:002010-01-08T08:40:16.756+00:00No worries,I deleted them! Thanks, Poet in Paradis...No worries,I deleted them! <br><br>Thanks, Poet in Paradise - you so eloquently put into words what I was too lazy to craft. <br><br>I guess they are trying to shock, to provoke comment like ours. Upmarket, ironic ... but also quite cynical.Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007409312955086752noreply@blogger.com