Window dresser

Window dresser

Window dressers arrange displays of goods in shop windows or within a shop itself. They may work for design companies contracted to work for clients or for department stores, independent retailers, airport or hotel shops.

Alone or in consultation with product manufacturers or shop managers they artistically design and arrange the displays and may put clothes on mannequins and display the prices on the products.

They may hire joiners and lighting engineers to create displays. When new displays are required they have to dismantle the existing ones and they may have to maintain displays during their lifetime. Some window dressers hold formal display design qualifications.

Notable window dressers

*Raymond Loewy Early in his career he dressed windows for Macy's in New York.
* Gene Moore was a leading 20th century window dresser.
*Rhoda Morgenstern was a fictional window dresser played by Valerie Harper on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the spin off television show "Rhoda".
*Giorgio Armani the fashion designer once worked as a window dresser.
* Molina, one of the principal characters of Manuel Puig's novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, was a window dresser prior to his incarceration.

ee also

*Display window


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • window dresser — window dressing ˈwindow ˌdressing noun [uncountable] 1. when people try to give the public a favourable idea about something, sometimes hiding the true situation: • Stock prices benefited from window dressing by some money managers anxious to… …   Financial and business terms

  • window dresser — window .dresser n someone whose job is to arrange goods attractively in shop windows …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • window dresser — window ,dresser noun count someone whose job is to arrange goods in store windows, in order to make them look attractive …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • window dresser — noun someone who decorates shop windows • Syn: ↑window trimmer • Hypernyms: ↑craftsman, ↑artisan, ↑journeyman, ↑artificer * * * noun Etymology: wi …   Useful english dictionary

  • window-dresser — winˈdow dresser noun • • • Main Entry: ↑window …   Useful english dictionary

  • window dresser — noun see window dressing …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • window-dresser — See window dressing. * * * …   Universalium

  • window dresser — noun A person whose job is to arrange displays in shop windows See Also: window dressing …   Wiktionary

  • window dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store. [1860 65] * * * …   Universalium

  • window dresser — noun (C) someone whose job is to arrange goods attractively in shop windows …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”