By Reuters Published June 12, 2025 Merve Bayindir carefully glues dried flowers onto a pale pink saucer hat at her London studio. Nearby, an array of other colorful headpieces is on display. Merve Bayindir wears one of her hats among recent creations at her London studio ahead of the Royal Ascot horse racing festival. – […]
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Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket, said UK underlying sales growth picked up in Q1 and it won market share from rivals with clothing sales rising. Tesco F&F The group’s share of Britain’s grocery market has grown this year to 28% for the first time since 2016 and it said its UK like-for-like sales rose 5.1% in
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Pepco Group has completed the sale of UK value chain Poundland with Gordon Brothers the new owner, as expected. Pepco said the transaction enables the group to focus on the higher-growth and higher-margin eponymous business. Photo: Sandra Halliday And for Poundland it’s a lifeline for a business that has been struggling for a while and
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Vince, the American ‘quiet luxury’ brand, has opened a European flagship with a debut on Marylebone High Street in central London. It’s the 44th full-price store globally for the label and its second shop in London, its other store in the city is a 1,400 sq ft boutique on Chelsea’s Draycott Avenue, which opened in
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June 19 sees the debut of the latest Dr Martens collab in which it has linked up with the “by girls for girls” cult NYC label MadeMe for a second time. Dr Martens x MadeMe The new partnership revives “the iconic Buzz by fusing ‘90s rave nostalgia and unapologetic attitude into one standout silhouette,” it
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Sarah Burton has celebrated the female gaze in her debut campaign for Givenchy which stars Kaia Gerber. Kaia Gerber with Halina Reijn on set for Sarah Burton’s debut Givenchy campaign. – Courtesy of Givenchy The American supermodel is the protagonist in a shoot helmed by friend, photographer Halina Reijn, where Gerber plays the role of
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By Reuters Published June 12, 2025 Poland’s biggest fashion retailer LPP on Thursday reported a 20% year-on-year rise in its first-quarter net profit, boosted by higher sales and favourable exchange rate movements. Net profit at the owner of Reserved and Sinsay came in at 334 million zlotys ($90.49 million), versus analyst forecasts of 246 million
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The giant Meadowhall mall in Sheffield is the “most dominant super regional shopping centre in the UK”, according to a new ranking from people and place data specialist CACI. The ranking has used a number of catchment spending metrics to measure those that are best at attracting and retaining spend and is particularly interesting coming
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The Financial Times has named Elizabeth Paton as its new fashion editor with Paton taking up the London-based position in August. Elizabeth Paton As well as overseeing the heavyweight newspaper’s extensive coverage of fashion and style that has a big skew towards the luxury end of the market, she’ll write the weekly newsletter ‘Fashion Matters’.
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Italian luxury fashion house, La DoubleJ, and (RED) – the organisation co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver – have teamed up to launch a new limited edition ‘Coupe Rose’ capsule collection, with all profits donated to (RED). Iman Aiming to “deliver life-saving programs to women and girls in vulnerable communities”, it’s available from 12 June
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