Wednesday, December 21, 2011

LONDON'S LESSER LIGHTS

KEE@FSWMAG.COM

COMPARED TO THE MAGNIFICENCE OF HARRODS' WINDOWS WHICH MUST HAVE COST AN ARM AND LEG, OTHER DEPARTMENT STORES HAVE PERHAPS GIVEN UP ALL ATTEMPTS TO CHALLENGE HARRODS' DOMINANCE AND HAVE JUST THROWN IN THE TOWEL.

HARVEY NICHOLS, CONSIDERED EITHER HARRODS' POOR COUSIN OR THE STORE FOR THE YOUNG, HIP AND HAPPENING, HAS CHOSEN A RATHER BIZARRE WINDOW THEME. INSTEAD OF THE USUAL SEASONAL PLATITUDES LIKE 'WHITE XMAS' OR 'SALUTE SANTA' OR EVEN 'COOL YULE TO U', IT IS SIMPLY ANNOUNCING A GRAB-YOU-BY-THE-JUGULAR SLOGAN OF 'UP TO 30% DISCOUNT' AS ITS THEME!

Well, no one is complaining over the discount, unromantic as it seems.

Selfridges the grand dame of Oxford Street is also rather lowkey this year and the white on white theme does little to rattle your nerves or take your breath away. Debenhams is also so-so and Forever 21, newly opened, is also straightforward. As for Primark the lowest priced department store, they appear to have abandoned Christmas altogether since sales are so good with or without Santa Claus. Mind you, Atika the Malaysian Ford Supermodel paid L1 (R 5) for 2 pairs of gloves and gave a pair to me. Alas, within 2 days a gaping hole appeared inbetween my forefinger and middle finger in the woolen glove so the cheapest is not always the longest lasting!

Even the street lights are nothing to shout about! Usually Oxford and Regent Streets boast stunning displays of street lights with special themes but this year they look pretty tired and identikit to previous years like your Xmas tree taken out from storage and reused year after year. Well, times are bad so let us not scrooge about nitty-gritties and may we all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and remember how baby Jesus was born in a manger 2,011 years ago to the blessed Virgin Mary and Father Joseph.

BELOW ARE THE LESSER LIGHTS OF LONDON!

These are Selfridges's windows;
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St Christopher's Place, off Oxford Street

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Forever 21
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South Molton Street

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Exhausted shopper in Primark
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Atika and Alex Quay in Primark

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Harvey Nichols's windows seem to feature dust pans and trash bins and lowly household utensils
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Not the height of glam as trash bags really lack that X factor

BUT ALL IS NOT LOST AS HARVEY NICHOLS ALSO FLAUNT SOME GLAM FASHIONS THOUGH TO ME , THEY ARE NOT IN THE SAME ILK AS HARRODS WHICH WINS HANDS DOWN. THERE ARE TONS OF FAB FASHIONS INSIDE HARVEY NICHOLS BUT STRANGELY THE ONES DISPLAYED IN THEIR WINDOWS ARE BIT HO-HUM
BUT HERE THEY ARE...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND REMEMBER JESUS WAS BORN ON 25 DECEMBER 0000AD

2 comments:

  1. thankyou for the All the effort .... excellent pics.
    i assume yr behind the camera.... alas unable to view yr fashion

    Lwr

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  2. 公告社会人士,

    甲洞No. 38 Desa Jaya, Kepong 52100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia三宝寺主席YIP KUM FOOK律师,家住No. 2A & B, Jalan 53, Desa Jaya, Kepong, 52100, Kuala Lumpur, WP Kuala Lumpur其人实事是一个骗财骗色的大老千。早期他加入甲洞三宝寺時,利用他的歪念知識,横行霸道,迫走知道内情的和尚和会员, 自便到处欺骗,私吞三宝寺的钱财,还敢向警察报案说三宝进贼,帐记被偷,损失惨重的案件,事实是他私吞三宝寺的钱财,自盗毁灭,他知法犯法,贪意妄为的行径,的确令人震惊而愤怒,
    他当任马华公会主席的時代,更坏事干尽, 恶名昭彰, 连破坏别人家庭之事,他也不手软,这不知羞耻的人 实事是民族的败数,佛教的叛徒。
    最近 ,他又想借用三宝寺举辦30周年纪念及建观音殿,我们顾虑他重蹈过去的恶行, 所认特函公告社会善心人士,要谨慎,不要再被阴险笑裡藏刀的恶徒,继续欺骗,为害社会.
    全国509大选,马华公会大败,其因马华公党内太多像 Yip Kum Fook 及 Yip Jiun Hann父子律师的领导層,行为缺德, 损人利己,高傲目大,不可一视,所引发人民不满的一部份,马华公会若想重振历史雄风, 类似以上的觉员必须清理,走入基層,否则免谈。
    此致,并祝国泰民安。
    马来西亚甲洞三宝寺会员敬啟
    TAN HWA HO

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