The cleverest move, though, is its focus on the midlife customer. While other retailers are trying to create the next viral “it” dress, White Stuff has been turning out pieces with hanger appeal that are designed with a midlife body in mind. “White Stuff really resonates with customers who are so often overlooked and underrepresented...
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Princess Beatrice named the best-dressed person in Britain by Tatler magazine
Princess Beatrice claimed the number-one spot on Tatler’s annual best-dressed list. Mike Marsland/WireImage All hail the new queen of British style. Princess Beatrice topped Tatler magazine’s list of best-dressed Brits this year — and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s eldest daughter has come a long way since her ridiculed royal wedding hat in 2011. The 35-year-old...
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Tom Daley’s Paris Olympic knitted jumper is gold medal-worthy
Sign up to HELLO! Fashion for style tips, cultural insights, must-have items, and more By entering your details, you are agreeing to HELLO! Magazine User Data Protection Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information, please click here. There’s nothing more rewarding than making a garment with your own two hands and nobody knows that...
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2024 Olympic opening ceremony uniforms: Best outfits from Paris
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are officially here, and the excitement is palpable for the largest sporting event in the world, held every four years. Fans eagerly await the revelation of the athletes who will proudly represent their countries, and it begins with the unique uniforms they will wear during the opening and closing ceremonies....
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Paris Olympic Uniforms 2024 and Inspiration Behind the Designs: From Team USA’s Ralph Lauren Suits to Mongolia’s Viral Looks and More
In 1992, Issey Miyake designed uniforms for Team Lithuania to wear during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Barcelona — Lithuania was competing for the first time as an independent nation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Miyake reportedly donated all of his designs free of charge and the outfits were highly praised...
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Britain can’t do luxury fashion anymore – Burberry is the proof
It meant London Fashion Week, always the poor relation to Milan and Paris, suddenly had a hot property that advertised in the key global markets. Therefore, it drew major editors and celebrities to its shows here. Other much smaller designers basked in the reflected glow, attracting attention they never had before. Arguably, Burberry could have...
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Korean ‘Hanbok Wave’ fashion project launched in London
London’s Korean Cultural Centre was turned into a fashion catwalk this week with the launch of Hanbok Wave, a project to interpret and transform traditional Korean dress into a modern collection of women’s and men’s day/eveningwear “for a new generation”. A collaboration saw the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korea Craft and Design Foundation and...
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The Matches disaster is the end of luxury fashion as we know it
Traditionally retailers mark up items by just under three times. If they sell something for £1,000, for example, they pay the designer about £380, leaving a margin of £620. Under the sale or return system, they would make £200 on a £1,000 item. ‘Then there are a slew of import and export duties under Brexit,’...
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How Victoria Starmer transformed first lady dressing in one week
One week you’re quietly getting on with life working for the NHS in occupational health, the next you’re rubbing shoulders with world leaders at a Nato summit in Washington as the UK’s (unofficial) “first lady”. It’s been quite the transition for Lady Starmer, a woman who had mostly remained in the shadows throughout her husband’s...
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British fashion house Burberry is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees amid huge stock selloff
British fashion house Burberry Group Plc is expected to shed hundreds of jobs, mostly in the UK, following a sharp drop in its stock market value, the Telegraph reported. Employees were informed during a Zoom meeting in late June, with those affected told they were facing redundancy or having to reapply for their roles, the...
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Victoria Starmer wears a dress from Britain’s favourite middle-class label to enter Downing Street
So many key questions spring forth – ones you probably won’t find Laura Kuenssberg and her colleagues addressing. Is £295 henceforth a new Labour fiscal policy? It has been widely acknowledged in the fashion industry as a middle-class sweet spot – i.e., high enough to make an item seem reassuringly aspirational, but not obscenely so. ...
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News analysis: will the new UK government deliver for fashion and retail?
It’s official, the UK has its first Labour government in 14 years with a landslide win for the Labour Party. And with plenty of business leaders having come out in support of the party, it seems business might be happy. Photo: Pixabay How happy it stays depends on what happens in the next few months,...
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