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Diesel's S&M Shop
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 11 September 2008, 11:57 Permalink Comments (7)
London's Soho may have a history of sauciness but this is the first time we can remember an actual building going for the S&M look...
The Diesel store on Carnaby Street has been padded in foam and wrapped in PVC as part of a promotional campaign around the label's Dark Desires range. It's the work of Brighton-based Matt Wingfield Studio, set up by the eponymous former head of graphic design at Harvey Nichols.
Wingfield and his team "clad the front in a 50mm foam, then wrapped PVC around it. We then strapped it down with webbing and drywall screws fixed straight into the shop fascia," he explains.
"We are trying to push the idea of display and how a brand can seek attention," he says. Quite.
This is the second time that MWS has worked with Diesel client Alice Sheriff to transform the Carnaby Street shop, having created another, typographic, fascia in July.
7 Comments
I really liked the previous work MWS did for Diesel - part of the Diesel Wall campaign, wasn't it? - but I'm not so sure about this one..
It doesn't do anything for me and doesn't look all that S&M to me either. I'm not sure why they put foam on first.. The padding is counterintuitive isn't it? Or at least a mistake on the window frame/column bits that are now reminiscent of bouncy castles - or is that just me..?
2008-09-12 17:48:23
I love it! Alice Sheriff is a brilliant woman. Constant flow of original ideas. Another fantastic success. Congratz!
2008-09-13 01:03:00
The foam is there to give the material something flesh-like to stretch around, it wouldn't look at all right otherwise stretching round the hard edges of the window frames...I'm going to go and see for myself at lunchtime!
2008-09-16 12:00:00
Was not actually supposed to be an S&M shop....The inspiration is Dark Desires,and the padding is inspired from padded cells.........The concept internally and externally is about playing with textures, fabric and materials, so that when the customer is browsing they are intrigued and suprised by what is happening around them.
2008-09-18 23:25:12
Im not sure why this shop fascia warrants any attention what so ever.
Its not original and it's not that interesting, yet again another try hard approach to selling expensive hand torn clothes.
If you simply just gaze full circle around Tokyo's Ginza district- a simple cake shop probably has had more thought go into the design of it's door handle than this.
I know lets see what material you are least likely to see wrapped around a shop front and lets use that.
2008-09-23 13:45:44
not a bad take on a 40year old idea
http://www.bbcamerica.com/media/216/sexshoplondon.jpg
2008-09-26 11:41:59
sorry, i meant 30-years (ie 1977)
2008-09-29 08:45:51
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