It’s been a roller coaster ride for UK high streets and malls in recent months what with weather woes, Brexit blues or boom, online chipping away at physical stores and lifestyle changes meaning many of us shop differently than we used to.
Usually, when designers axe their secondary collections and “merge” them into their main lines, the character of the cancelled label disappears into that of the big sister one. But it’s a funny thing that ever since Marc Jacobs canned his younger, cheaper Marc by Marc Jacobs offer, the big sister has behaved more like its…
The peplum hem skirt floats in and out of style quite regularly and for SS17 the wind has turned in its favour again – and caused it to crash head on with the frill skirt. Should you care? Well, yes. It means there’ll be lots of them in the stores come next spring/summer.
Will you get your must-have items this autumn? It could all depend on whether a solution is found following the collapse of Korean shipping giant Hanjin. It seems around $10.8bn/£8bn worth of goods are stuck in or outside of ports and aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Debenhams opens in Australia in exactly one year’s time and it expects to make a major impact. The retailer is debuting in Melbourne in a deal with Pepkor and expects to take sales of around A$20m from the dominant players David Jones and Myer. How will it do that? By shaking up the affordable designer…
Yesterday was a day for honesty in the fashion industry. Not only did Under Armour’s CFO Chip Molloy (great name) admit that the fast-growing brand only sponsored the US Olymics team for the social media buzz it generated rather than for a sales boost, but Gap’s CEO admitted that there are no compelling trends to…
You only live once. That’s the attitude of a many young adults and it means they’d rather spend than save, a new survey says. Yes, it’s those millennials again – the current favourite generation to be surveyed, scrutinised and analysed – and this study suggests they’re worried about their future but not necessarily worried enough…
Sainsbury’s is really going for it this season and has big news on the fashion front. The supermarket giant, which has been hurt by the on-going tough UK supermarket sector and which is buying Argos to expand its business, is going after the premium fashion sector with its latest launch. A step too far for…
John Lewis’s weekly sales figures came out yesterday and one of the most interesting points was that shoppers are still buying plenty of summer clothes and accessories, even though the summer clearance sales are over and last minute bargains are hard to find. Now that may seem like a bit of a no-brainer given that…
Burberry has just unveiled the images for its new women’s fragrance, My Burberry Black with actress Lily James appearing in her first ever global ad campaign. It has also given details of a major program to promote the scent on social media. In a first for the brand, James took over Burberry’s Snapchat account today, culminating in the reveal…
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