Balmain Paris Rotunda — Visual Merchandising

Estée Lauder Companies · 2023–2025

Luxury Brand
Environments

From gifting suite to retail floor — designing the brand world at every scale.

Client
Estée Lauder Companies · Tom Ford Beauty · Balmain Paris · Jo Malone London · Emporio Armani
Scope
Brand activations · Spatial styling · 3D concept development · Retail planning · In-store execution
Tools
SketchUp · Rhino · V-Ray · Photoshop · Illustrator

Overview

Making people feel
the brand before they touch the product

Luxury retail design is a form of environmental storytelling — every surface, every sightline, every product placement is a decision about how a brand wants to be felt. Across five years within the Estée Lauder Companies portfolio, I worked at every scale of that discipline: from a prestige gifting activation at the Academy Awards to overscale retail installations at Bloomingdales and Bergdorf Goodman, to 3D concept development and launch unit planning for national retail rollouts.

This page documents four distinct bodies of work — each representing a different dimension of luxury brand environment design.


01

Tom Ford Beauty — Oscars Gifting Suite

A private gifting suite curated for Academy Awards weekend — product vignette design, spatial styling, and brand atmosphere at one of the most visible moments in the luxury beauty calendar. The suite balanced editorial restraint with the warmth required of a high-touch hospitality environment.

Brand Activation
Tom Ford Beauty Oscars Gifting Suite — full room
Tom Ford Vanilla Sex fragrance tray
Tom Ford lipstick display

Tom Ford Beauty · Oscars Gifting Suite · Los Angeles, 2024


02

Retail Concept Environments

3D concept development and spatial planning for branded retail environments — translating campaign assets and brand visual language into physical installations that perform within strict retailer guidelines and sightline requirements.

Emporio Armani Bloomingdales concept render
Emporio Armani window concept back
Emporio Armani window concept front
Emporio Armani additional render

Emporio Armani · Bloomingdales Visual Week Installations · NYC · SketchUp / V-Ray · 2025

Emporio Armani Stronger With You 3D concept
Tom Ford Fragrance Seminar Presentation Environment

Emporio Armani · Stronger With You · SketchUp concept · 2025

Tom Ford Beauty · Fragrance Seminar Presentation Environment · V-Ray · 2024


03

In-Store Styling & Floor Execution

Physical execution of branded environments within luxury department store settings — spatial merchandising, product elevation, and overscale storytelling installations that reinforce brand identity within shared retail floors.

Balmain Paris blackbox environment
Balmain Paris store entry styling

Balmain Paris · Floor Layout Execution & Styling · Bergdorf Goodman, NYC · 2024

Jo Malone London seasonal WOW installation
Jo Malone London WOW installation concept render

Jo Malone London · Seasonal WOW Installation Concept & Execution · Bloomingdales, NYC · 2024


04

Concept to Production Workflow

End-to-end development of retail launch units — from initial sketch and 3D concept through planogram development, brand sell-in documentation, and production-ready specifications for national retail rollout.

Launch Unit Development
Launch unit sketch concept 1
Launch unit sketch concept 2
Launch unit sketch concept 3
Launch unit artboard layout
Launch unit combined renders
Launch unit 3D front render
Launch unit 3D alternate render

05

Retail Planning & Fixture Installation

3D SketchUp working files and display unit renders developed for retailer sell-in and production handoff — translating brand concepts into specification-ready documentation for national retail rollout.

Tom Ford Find Your Fragrance wall concept 1
Tom Ford Find Your Fragrance wall concept 2
Tom Ford Find Your Fragrance wall concept 3
La Mer hook table planning
Vanilla Sex planogram and sell-in documentation

Tom Ford Beauty · Vanilla Sex at Sephora "Find Your Fragrance Wall" Launch · 2023

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