When you enter Juicy Couture’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue, you’ll see the fragrance department straight ahead, at a counter emblazoned with the phrase “Smells Like Couture.” (Somewhere, Kurt Cobain is wincing.) The brand’s full line of fragrances and other beauty items is available, including two perfumes for women and matching body products — shower gels, lotions, dusting powder, and more — all ornamented with the brand’s logos and assorted pink baubles. Around the corner, several shelves display “Juicy Crittoure” fragranced products (“pawfum,” shampoo, and foot balm) for dogs.

Every element of Juicy Couture’s overall store design feels appropriated from somewhere else. (Even the stuffed peacock trailing his plumes above the perfume counter may have been inspired by the now-iconic decor of Aedes de Venustas.) The resulting pastiche is the visual equivalent of those Verve remixes that layer a present-day club beat over a classic jazz vocal…

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