8 March, 2013
“H&M, the world’s second largest fashion chain, opens its latest retail venture in London on Friday. The store, called & Other Stories, is intended to be a premium brand premised on an female attitude to shopping influenced by social media and blogging.”
“Grace Nduta has never ventured far from Korogocho, the Nairobi slum where she lives. But her handiwork has. Bags she helped make were slung over the skinny shoulders of fashion models as they strutted the catwalks of Paris Fashion Week earlier this month.”
“PPR is close to snapping up Milanese jeweller Pomellato in a deal that would allow the French luxury and sports brand group to expand in a sector in which it has a small presence, sources close to the matter said.”
“On the heels of an exchange program that brought designer Uma Wang to New York last year for a six-week apprenticeship with established American counterparts, a leading US industry group has signed its first Chinese partnership with Shangpin.com, a high-end online fashion retailer based in Beijing.”
“Manolo Blahnik glares out a window of his high-rise headquarters just off the King’s Road in Chelsea at the Holiday Inn across the way. ‘If there was an earthquake, I’d be waiting outside for it to collapse,’ he snaps. The ugliness of the modern world is a constant assault on Blahnik’s sensibilities, everything from the ‘cheap, suburban’ interior of his offices…”
“Say ‘rag and bone’ in Britain, and it’s odds-on that whoever you’re talking to will think of Wilfrid Brambell’s malevolent gummy gurning in Steptoe and Son. Say it in the US – especially in New York – and they’ll jump to a different conclusion.”
