There may be a lot more occupying the front pages these days but an M&S sales report is always headline news. And today’s? Well, all I can say is ouch! Comparable sales in its clothing and home units fell 8.9% in the quarter to July 2, which is a big drop, a really big drop.…
There’s a well-known book called French Women Don’t Get Fat that conveys a picture of the average French femme as eating what she likes (but not overeating) while staying a chic size that will allow her to squeeze into even the most unforgiving designer labels. Well, new research shows that the book’s basic premise is……
Theresa May, Angela Eagle, Hillary Clinton, Nicola Sturgeon, Angela Merkel, Andrea Leadsom. I don’t know about you but it feels to me that while 2016 is turning into a nightmare year politically, it does have one upside. And that is? The way female politicians have not only come to the fore but look likely to be running…
I like DSquared. There I’ve said it. I really do like it. For some reason though, if I ever own up to that fact in public, I get looked at with a mixture of amusement and pity as if it’s somehow not a cool thing to admit. Mention Marni, Prada, Gucci, Marc Jacobs Alberta Ferretti.…
The UK fashion sector has a whole shopping cart of problems ahead of it and Brexit is only one of them. But it has opportunities too and social media is one of them. New data from Kantar Worldpanel shows the market falling slightly (by 0.1%) in the 52 weeks to June 5.
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…
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