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…
Will the Chinese economic slowdown at home translate into slower spending among Chinese shoppers abroad? That’s a question lots of companies (especially in the luxury space in the UK) are asking. And the answer? Well the indications are good, according to the retail tourism intelligence specialists at Global Blue. Spending is expected to hold up…
Does it drive you mad when stores care so much about their look on the shop floor that they don’t put all available sizes out? Me too. In which case, maybe Dublin’s Brown Thomas flagship isn’t the place to go. Or is it? The company, which is owned by the same super-rich family that controls…
Saturday’s always a big shopping day in the UK so what happened this year on the first day after Christmas? Well chez Halliday, we got up late and ate Turkey sandwiches. And elsewhere? Everybody went shopping. And how. Presumably buoyed by an ever-rising number of gift cards received from their nearest and dearest, footfall surged…
I took a trip down Oxford Street, South Molton Street and Regent Street in London yesterday, fully intending to photograph as many windows as possible. Unfortunately, I was sidetracked by Gap’s “all jeans for £20” one-day-only offer. When you’re weighed down by two pairs of Real Straight 26 waist/short and eight pairs of men’s Slim,…
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