Burberry’s in the news at the moment. No, wait, Burberry’s always in the news. Just more so at the moment. So only a couple of days after announcing Christopher Bailey would step down as CEO, the company issued a trading update this morning that the news media is jumping all over. Newspaper and websites largely…
Asos may be powering ahead despite the Brexit vote, as its latest sales figures showed today. But it doesn’t look like many of its UK fashion retail peers are, or does it? No, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). That said, it’s still early days and contradictory figures seem to be emerging too with…
Good news from Asos today. The pureplay fashion e-tailer saw total sales rising 30%, or 26% currency-neutral to £514.6m in the four months to June 30, a slight acceleration from a still-enviable 25% currency-neutral rise in the 10 months to the end of June. Yippee.
There was a time when a retailer launched a limited edition collection with a big name designer, advertised it then watched it (hopefully) sell out. But this is a new age and social media is where it’s at so the process of letting people know about your hot new collaboration is so much more complicated.…
Big change at Burberry next year with Christopher Bailey stepping back from his CEO role. But the man who helped turn the label into the luxury powerhouse it is will retain his chief creative officer role and gets the new title of president. The new CEO will be Marco Gobbetti, currently heading up LVMH’s luxury…
Have you noticed how the hype around wearable technology has died down lately? A couple of years ago you couldn’t move for some expert predicting that we’d all be talking into our jackets and lighting up the room with our jeans. So has wearable tech gone from being the Next Big Thing to Yesterday’s Thing?…
Sssnakeskin.. sorry snakeskin… is a key material across categories for the pre-summer collections, helping to ring the changes for belts, boots and, of course, that key category – bags.
So, Maria Grazia Chiuri has got the Dior women’s creative director job. Is anyone surprised? Not really as it must be the worst kept secret of recent times in the fashion sector. It may not mean much in terms of the wider fashion industry but it’s a significant move. As a 52-year-old woman, it’s the…
It’s weird in the UK at the moment. You can almost reach out and touch the overall feeling of doom and gloom with the only people who seem to be cheerful being a few Brexiteers (like Andrea Leadsom with that painted-on perma-grin of hers). But businesses and consumers aren’t convinced. Pessimists are being criticised by…
The Valentino couture collection wasn’t as easy to like as it usually is. Austere it certainly was. Unmissable too. But it lacked the light touch we’ve come to expect from the 25-year partnership of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli. Maybe that was no surprise because that partnership is now over. Chiuri’s departure from the…
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