Metro: Cake

Metro Department Store is celebrating its 21th anniversary this month. The total look of this local department store is very festive with pink colors as main color and many birthday party attributes. One interesting property is the giant cake on one of its window displays. It is a sliced chocolate cake with thick white cream on the top plus colorful sugar to brighten it and don't forget the red cherry as the complement.

Braun Buffel: Starry nights

Braun Buffel window display in Jakarta is rarely dressed beautifully. Thus, this photo is the first time I see a beautiful display from this German-based accessories brand. It shows a starry nights of a city and a set of balloons flying up a bag.

Longchamp: Dressing Table

This Fall/Winter 2012 season, Longchamp window display looks like an interior shop. After the wooden cabinet display on fall, the winter display is featuring a set of dressing table. This dressing table is the most beautiful one I ever see. It has the classic French furniture style but appears in the very modern design. Gone are the heavy wooden furniture with golden color covers in the frame or linings. They are replaced with clear transparent look of fiber glass material in both for the table and the chair. The mirror looks lavish with the brand's iconic logo.

Ted Baker: Hunting game

Survival of the Fittest is the theme for Ted Baker's Autumn Winter 2012 collection. Both on the advertising image and the display presents a hunting game in the forest where a girl dressed in a fabulous leather jacket appears as a keen hunter with a set of arch and arrows. The different is found at the display where the male mannequins is finally shot by the female one and it drops on the ground. The set of this display is a vivid portrait of a forest with falling leaves, wild plants, and some wood blocks to display the accessories collection.

Valentino: Black and white

Valentino window display always looks minimalist and calm with a mannequin and some tables to display accessories. However, it always look interesting with the very right choice of show stopper collection displayed and the choice of color. These photos are the example of a very interesting Valentino display. Black and white is the dominant theme but it is not the regular classic. Pay attention at the detail of a dress, a blouse, and of course the fabulous accessories collection.

Gucci: Picture perfect

Gucci window display for Fall/Winter 2012 is like a giant photo frame. Inside this luxurious photo frame in metallic gold colors, there is a 'picture' of a glamorous couple ready for party. They are posing in front of the gold framed Gucci Fall/Winter 2012 campaign image. What a perfect picture of luxurious living and thankfully in modern non-logo way.

Bubble Girl: Sale in the air

Bubble Girl, a boutique selling dresses for girls, was having a sale promotion the time I took these photos. There are giant red colored letters that scream SALE and also words of 'in the air' on the window. To strengthen the message of 'air' the VM team creates a very effective properties - balloons made of paper that have white ribbon. The balloons are hung up on the ceiling so that they look like flying in the air. Simple but excellent.

Gap Kids: Kite

Today is November 1, 2012 and it is now fall season in the four seasons country. Even like Indonesia which has only summer and rainy seasons, the sun is not everyday showing its light. However, Gap Kids window display has the summer mood look. There is a group of children playing and flying the kites with colorful ribbons. A very clear light blue sky looks so calm and peaceful behind them. What a relief actually to see this display.

Dior: Aeroplane

Dior Resort 2013 campaign image is showing the French actress, Marion Cottilard, having a fun moment at a white sand beach with clear light blue sky. She looks so calm and relax running around on the sea shore while carrying the iconic Lady Dior bag. Up above the sky, there is an old aeroplane flying an it comes in light robin egg green colored. This image is now translated into an arrangement of the window display. Sadly, the fun and playful look of the campaign image disappears since there is no mannequins standing inside the window (this boutique does not carry the ready-to-wear collection). The display look silent and blank only the hanging aeroplanes in green and red colors that are lively enough to create attention.

Hermes: Hour glass

Hermes Indonesia applies this year's annual theme of time literally in its latest window display. There are hour glass with colored sands inside them. The hour glasses have two shapes that are the famous shape and the square boxes. Sadly, they look so ordinary and nothing special especially for the ready-to-wear collection window.

Rococo: Manhattan

I took this display photos last week's Thursday when the hurricane Sandy was still on her way to the city of Manhattan. What I am now observing on CNN, internet pictures, and Instagrams of some New Yorkers are pictures of a ghost city where no people on the street compared to this black and white picture that is used for the background of Rococo latest window display. It is one of the famous building and street corner of the city that is always busy and bustling. About the display itself, it is arranged to display the latest neon colored sneakers from Cole Haan, an accessories brand that is based in New York.

L'Occitane: Production process

Amidst the gloomy color of fall/winter window display, L'Occitange has the brightest and summery appearance with a giant bright-yellow-light-and-dark-blur colored poster of its new Immortelle Precious Serum product. Below the poster, there are five laboratory cup or glasses that are used to make and gather the concentrate of immortelle flowers into the serum bottles. There are also two bundles of the bright yellow flowers in front of them that make the window looks so beautiful.

The Goods Dept: Black

Another dark mood window display is found at the recent arrangement of The Goods Dept. Black dresses, black shirt-dress with black slip dress inside, black suit, black shoes, black reindeer, and the black wordings are the main dominant sighting when you look at this window display. On the wall, there are two sentences of 'Let's do the time wrap again' that is confusing me for the meaning and the connection with the display. Another confusing matter is about the broken horn of the reindeer, is it purposely broken or not? Simple display but sophisticated and mysterious.