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…
There’s been a lot of confusing data about UK retail sales in May but now the official figures are out and what do they show? Retail was in a good place in May and clothing retail was the reason. Shock, Horror. Really? We’re continuously told that retail is suffering at the moment and clothing retail…
When I was younger, Mulberry was an aspirational brand for me. I loved the non-bling nature of its bags (even in the days before the word bling was invented) but I could never afford one. By the time I could afford one (or at least by the time I had a credit card), the company…
Do you ever fail to trust your instincts? Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine about Jimmy Choo’s trading update today and I noticed that the company’s shares had dropped to below £1 each. I thought I should buy some as a look round the Jimmy Choo shop in Selfridges a few days…
Another day, another robot story. And more specifically, another Wal-Mart tech story. It seems the US retail giant is now working with Five Elements Robotics to develop a robotic shopping trolley. Five Elements is the company behind Budgee, the $1,400 “friendly robot that carries your stuff,” and its CEO Wendy Roberts mentioned the new project…
“The prevailing sentiment across retailing is that the customer has less interest in shopping in stores, whether it be traditional department stores or other luxury specialty stores.” That’s what Neiman Marcus CEO Karen Katz said yesterday after delivering yet another quarterly drop in same-store sales and profits. That’s a sentiment many would echo at the…
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