REFY Beauty’s Artist Studio is at Selfridges Where Live Portraits Meet Oxford Street
Selfridges Oxford Street welcomes the REFY Artist Studio, celebrating the launch of the Watercolor collection. Explore a clean, gallery-like aesthetic and participate in exclusive events.
REFY Beauty’s Artist Studio is at Selfridges Where Live Portraits Meet Oxford Street
REFY has brought its Artist Studio concept to Selfridges Oxford Street, debuting a Watercolor themed pop up that turns a beauty launch into a live, in store art experience complete with bespoke portraits by illustrator Jess Rose Bird.
Watercolor comes to life at Selfridges
The REFY Artist Studio is installed on the Ground floor beauty hall at Selfridges, Oxford Street, as part of the brand’s ongoing partnership with the retailer. Conceived “from concept to reality” to celebrate the launch of the Watercolor collection, the space brings together the visual references behind the products soft washes of pigment, layered transparency, an “art class” mood – and invites the community to test, swatch and play in person.
In keeping with REFY’s “simplifying beauty” ethos, the Studio leans into a clean, gallery like aesthetic rather than a cluttered counter, foregrounding product texture and colour payoff over heavy fixtures.
Art Club with Jess Rose…
Bird A key draw of the activation is Art Club with Jess Rose Bird, a recurring weekend residency where the Scottish fashion illustrator creates bespoke watercolor portraits for shoppers.
Running from 1–5pm on Saturdays and Sundays, the offer is simple and highly social media friendly: with any purchase from the REFY pop up, visitors receive a personalised portrait in Jess’s loose, gestural style.
Event listings and in store content position this as a way to “become the art,” echoing earlier REFY concepts like the “You Are The Art” pop ups that blurred the lines between beauty, fashion and gallery spaces.
Here, the Watercolor collection becomes both medium and subject, with makeup and illustration feeding into one another…
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