Art and messages of visual merchandising

Visual merchandising is actually a technique, ie. mastery of different methods to promote the sale of goods by improving their presentation in the shop window and the object itself. It also includes certain components of ambient design using visual rhetoric and communication, primarily through visua...

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Published inTekstilna industrija Vol. 67; no. 4; pp. 52 - 57
Main Author Nikolić, Jelena
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Union of Textile Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, Belgrade 2019
Subjects
"fashion temples"
identity
symbolic messages
the beautiful and ugly shop windows
visual merchandising
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Summary:Visual merchandising is actually a technique, ie. mastery of different methods to promote the sale of goods by improving their presentation in the shop window and the object itself. It also includes certain components of ambient design using visual rhetoric and communication, primarily through visual imagery, sending symbolic messages, to arouse a perceptual and emotional response in a potential customer, and finally to influence its behavior in the store by bringing him into the brand identity. In the book Death of Fashion, Harald Gründl studies fashion showcases that appear twice a year, when a new fashion collection arrives in stores, in an atmosphere of beautifully decorated showcases and is out of fashion at the end of the season. The seasonal period of sale, before a new product collection each Spring-Summer and Fall-Winter became the transition phase between the old and the new collection, when the beauty of visual merchandising disfigured.
ISSN:0040-2389
0040-2389
DOI:10.5937/tekstind1904053N