Monday, June 13, 2011

World's End to Harvey Nic's






For those of you who don't know, which I certainly didn't before taking this class, World's End is the original Vivienne Westwood store were the birth of punk street style took place. The store is still in original form with crocked floors, no AC and not even a bathroom for the workers. The pieces still make people stop and look at you which was the idea around punk style at the time, but now they have the backing of her very respected name. To get to be in this story and see all that history was just amazing and I bought a very one-of-a-kind sweater on sale!! And wore it to our "punk night-out"
Starbucks junkie....
After our walk of World's End we strolled along the Borough of Chelsea. This is a very cute little area where we saw an art gallery called Proud that was featuring an Audrey Hepburn exhibit <3. We also had to stop and get some froyo at a place called snog, which we found out means kiss, that was absolutely adorable! It was pink and even had a little photo booth that took your "snog picture".




Then we made our way up to Harvey Nicols, another department store that puts the USA ones to shame. The highlights of this trip were the sushi conveyor belt (yes you sit at a bar and the sushi come by on a conveyor belt and you pick up what you want) different colored plates were different prices; it was definitely an experience. There was also a special line of coke bottles designed by Karl Lagerfeld, the designer for Chanel, that we had to take pictures with (they were pink and polk-a-dots).

Harvey Nics did have a lot of great fashion, but in my opinion hasn't caught up with Harrods. However i would say they had some more affordable items which is always nice for us, on top of their luxury departments. They also had remarkable contemporary men's department that I may have to be revisiting for gifts! A couple very notable things for the ladies were the botox bar and denim specialists that will help you find your prefect fit of jeans, and for any of us that have worked retail we know that can be a feat!

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