How Alex Jones, Will Mellor and Jasmin Harman are helping Cotton Traders target millennials January 30, 2024 Cotton Traders, the clothing brand founded by two former England national rugby union captains, has turned to the power of celebrity to help target a younger audience.
The House of Boohoo: Impact of PrettyLittleThing and others on fast-fashion giant’s mounting losses revealed January 27, 2024 Boohoo is never far from the headlines - but the firm's endgame isn't quite as easy to find
In The Style: Why fast-fashion brand once worth over £100m was forced to sell itself in cut-price deal January 15, 2024 The full financial challenges that faced fast-fashion brand In The Style before it was forced to sell itself to avoid administration have been revealed for the first time.
The Original Factory Shop returns to the red as Covid support ends January 11, 2024 The Original Factory Shop slipped back into the red after a government measure to reduce business rates during the pandemic came to an end.
Whether it’s Shein or Vinted, we’re addicted to buying clothes for pennies November 30, 2023 Business is booming for both Shein and secondhand retailers. The link? We're addicted to buying clothes for nothing, writes Anna Moloney.
Farfetch: The story so far as shares slide hard in New York November 29, 2023 Farfetch shares have slumped in New York as traders bet against reports the firm could be set to go private
Arteta, Sunak and WFH: How the quarter-zip took over the City November 4, 2023 It has become ubiquitous - from fintech marketing teams to the corner corporate office. And the quarter-zip fleece, the new must-have for any man about town, doesn't appear to be going anywhere soon.
Wear your art on your sleeve: New watches with graphic dials October 8, 2023 Perhaps Instagram is to blame but whatever the reason, even the more dyed-in-the-wool watch nerds aren’t above an exuberant graphic dial these days. Here are three of our favourites. ROLEX OYSTER PERPETUAL CELEBRATION Just when you thought Rolex’s 2020 spectrum of five Perpetual models in five respective ‘pops!’ was jazzy enough for the premiere practitioner [...]
Cartier’s Tank is the watch that keeps on giving October 7, 2023 Luxury watchmaking’s newly, seasonally uncoupled ‘drop’ culture means, like buses, you wait months after the industry’s formal fixture in spring, then two showstoppers arrive within a week. To wit: a Cartier celebrating a full 170 years of the Parisian grande dame making watches in all their wild and whimsical shapes. Joining fellow Richemont watchmaker, Jaeger-LeCoultre [...]
We love the vampish dial of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new chronograph October 6, 2023 There’s an intense richness to both concentric dial sectors of the Polaris Chronograph, laboriously lacquered in almost 40 opposing fades of grey. From black to snow white, this ‘graduated’ or ‘fumé’ (smoked) pattern is notoriously hard to apply – by hand – so consistently. Given the Swiss say the art of dial-making is already the [...]