SPRING’S key looks April 14, 2011 SPRING is (or certainly was) here. So what should you be wearing? The big looks this season are a mercy for the fuller-figured woman – or anyone tired of the super-clingy and the drab. Instead, it’s all about floral graphic prints (Oasis, Ted Baker, Monsoon, Erdem, Louis Vuitton), colour blocking (Uniqlo, Benetton, Zara) and the [...]
Tricky with the Nikkei – Japan seems to be getting worse November 1, 2010 WHILE many pundits in the US have spent the last two years predicting a Japanese future for America, Japan itself has not got any more popular. Instead, the strengthening yen – barely affected by occasional Bank of Japan (BoJ) interventions – has weighed heavily on Japanese equities. Where other indices have recovered from stock market [...]
How to look sharp in shorts… June 24, 2010 FOR men, wearing shorts is potentially even more of a minefield than it is for women. In the 70s and 80s they were too short, in the 90s they became vast and billowing, and in the Noughties they begat the crime against taste and rationality that is the three quarter-length trouser (which in America they [...]
JEANS ARE FIT FOR THE RITZ SO SPLASH OUT April 8, 2010 JEANS are cool – just ask the Ritz, which recently relaxed its dress code to allow denim into its dining room. But buying jeans is a minefield. There are so many choices – boyfriend, skinny, tapered or bootleg, distress factor, stretch, price. What happened to plain Levi’s 501s? One of my best pairs of jeans [...]
Uniqlo considers Gap expansion May 17, 2009 Tadashi Yanai, the Japanese entrepreneur behind Fast Retailing Co, owner of the Uniqlo clothing brand, has fuelled speculation he will bid for rival retailer Gap by saying it was not “a crazy idea”. Previous acquisitions eyed by Yanai include US department store Barney’s and Hong Kong’s Giordano chain, though both ended up falling flat. Yanai [...]