US fashion brand Liz Claiborne has closed its Regent Street store in what the company cited as “tough trading conditions.” This season, the conglomerate – which also owns Juicy Couture, Lucky Jeans and C&C California – has closed more than 40 concessions. The company is to continue selling Liz Claiborne accessories in the UK. Click…
John Lewis is countering the size zero advertising norm and has chosen “normal-sized” women to advertise its clothes in a backlash against too-thin models. Whilst the debate continues on all levels of the fashion spectrum, the Group has already begun using a UK size 12 model to market its summer swimwear collection. The retailer told…
Vanity sizing, the American-coined term for retailers flattering your true measurements with terms such as size zero, is now just as relevant to UK customers. In fact, if you’ve been flattered by those 29 inch jeans, you may in reality be two sizes bigger, or even more. According to the Daily Mail, Britain’s High Street…
Mosaic Fashions, the group of clothing brands controlled by Iceland’s Baugur, reported a full-year loss, but the group said its cash position remained strong and it expected to return to profit next year. “It was a tough year and overshadowing all of these results the assimilation of the Rubicon brands,” said Derek Lovelock, chief executive…
Reebok has been fined one million dollars for giving away toxic bracelets that came free with a purchase of children’s shoes. Hundreds of thousands of lead-laced bracelets that reported caused the death of one child, were distributed by the American sportswear company. “The penalty settles allegations that Reebok International Ltd imported and distributed charm bracelets…
Giorgio Armani will be expanding his emporium and open an online boutique on the 3-D virtual world Second Life. The store will allow viewers to purchase the brand’s top 10 products virtually via Second Life currency, the Linden dollar, or in actuality. More significantly, coming in September, Armani will start selling all Emporio Armani products…
Belgian designer Kris van Assche showed his first menswear collection at Christian Dior at Paris men’s fashion week. Van Assche’s presentation, held in an 18th-century style private mansion, marked a change from the rock & roll shows of his predecessor Hedi Slimane, who’s celebrity following included muses Pete Doherty and Jamie Dornan. Opting for a…
A new British Retail Consortium report shows the impact recession is having on town centre retailing – twelve per cent of town centre shops are now vacant, three times more than last autumn – but it also demonstrates that many of our high streets have been struggling for years. High streets are at the heart…
The winner of the second edition of the el Botón-Mango Fashion Awards is revealed as South-Korean Lee Jean Youn. He received 300,000 euros in prize money, the largest sum offered to date in a competition of this kind. Like the other finalists, the winner, Lee Jean Youn, had five months to create a collection of…
If ever you wanted your house to have the inspiration of Chanel, you may be in luck. The French fashion house’s creative director, Karl Lagerfeld, is to design the interiors of luxury residences in Dubai. Lagerfeld signed a deal with Dubai Infinity Holdings, or DIH, who are responsible for the residences on fashion island, or…