How valuable is a creative head to a high-end brand? Very. Just how valuable has become clear following the latest development in Hedi Slimane’s legal dispute with his ex-employer Kering. Slimane has just won a $13m settlement in his contractual dispute with the owner of the Yves Saint Laurent brand after a Paris commercial court made a…
Is this a handbag which I see before me, its handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Nah. Doesn’t quite work as a great soliloquy does it? Although it does sum up my feelings as I regularly pass the piles of lustworthy-but-unaffordable designer…
Britain’s a weirder place this week after the Brexit vote and consumer spending has already started to fall, according to one report.
Fashion has been heading in a more casual direction for a century but we’re only now reaching Peak Casual and the Resort 2017 collections are all over the trend.
So here we are, a few days after the most momentous vote in modern UK history with lots of people saying “let’s see how it plays out”. How has it played out so far? Chaos. The UK was the world’s fifth largest economy last Wednesday. Today it’s the sixth largest. That’s how much he pound’s…
Yesterday was a pretty crappy day for me on a number of fronts but while we all hope to wake up to a new, sunnier day, sometimes it just doesn’t happen. And it hasn’t happened today. I’ve woken up in a country where slightly more people voted for xenophobia and a cloud-cuckoo-land version of Britain…
Dior is preparing to name one half of Valentino’s dynamic duo as creative chief, according to a Reuters report today. If true, it means Maria Grazia Chiuri, who with Pierpaolo Piccioli has helped to reinvent the Valentino brand and drive it to impressive growth, would be Dior’s first ever female creative head. She had been most…
Runway denim and high street denim are two different animals but sometimes they come together with ideas from the runway filtering through to a store shelf near you. And this pre-season? Well there’s plenty to pick from including intense colour, zany pattern effects, shrunken or oversized versions of timeless classics and a jamboree of embroidered…
When you have a lot of hair on your face you’re less likely to invest in skincare. That’s an unfortunate side effect of the on-going beard trend and it means growth in the UK male skincare market is grinding to a halt. Now quite a lot of men have beards these days and it sometimes…
I never used to be a great fan of Stuart Weitzman ad campaigns. Loved the shoes (and boots) yet the campaigns always seemed a little, well, cheesy, especially the Gisele series. But I think I was probably out of step (pun intended) with the rest of the shoe-buying world because the brand has undeniably been a storming success…
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