This is the fuller version of Couture Carousel, with the architecture of Harrods set behind the figures. The windows are the point: a department store window is where fashion is staged for people who are not buying, and drawing them into the design turns a repeat of dressed figures into a street scene with an audience implied.
The palettes were built around the store's own motto, Omnia Omnibus Ubique, all things for all people, everywhere, and the range runs deliberately wide, from full colour through to monochrome, so the same design can be pitched loud or quiet according to the room. That breadth is unusual and genuinely useful; the drawing carries either reading without strain.
It is printed on a non-woven ground with a mica finish, which gives the surface a pearlescent shift as light crosses it and lends the whole design something of the glass it depicts. The roll is 0.7 m wide with a repeat of a full metre, so quantities need care. It suits a dressing room, a hall, a first-floor landing or a room where a certain amount of theatre is wanted, and it needs plain everything else. Hung through a whole room it becomes a scene rather than a repeat.
