With more than 17 million UK customers, a peer-to-peer app has become the high street’s most awkward neighbour Vinted Is Now Britain’s Third-Largest Fashion Retailer, and Your Wardrobe Already Knows With more than 17 million UK customers, a peer-to-peer app has become the high street’s most awkward neighbour By Roper…
Marks & Spencer joins the official schedule, eBay brings a pre-loved show, and Roper Penberthy asks whether anyone can still tell the front row from the queue at Pret London Fashion Week Returns in September With a Sandwich-Shop Centenary and a Runway You Can Buy From Marks & Spencer joins…
A London fashion journalist reads about the long-delayed flying Tesla Roadster and argues that luxury cars are now sold like couture, with deposits, waiting lists and a launch show A Car That Behaves Like A Handbag The London Prat reports that Elon Musk unveiled the flying Tesla Roadster nine years…
A London fashion journalist on Harry and Meghan’s Nottingham visit, the press obsession with one belt, and the real business of the royal effect on British retail A Belt Walks Into Nottingham Every fashion journalist in London has, at some point, been asked by an editor to identify a royal…
A London fashion journalist reads about Prince William’s three number plates and explains why registrations have become a status object worth more than the cars they sit on The Accessory You Bolt To A Bumper The London Prat has a report on how Prince William has ordered three personalised number…
A London fashion journalist reads about France’s school money permanently in transit and considers the cobbled politics behind the world’s most famous fashion city The Cobblestones Have Opinions The London Prat has a report on France’s cobblestone economy and the school money permanently in transit. The French state, the piece…
A London fashion journalist reads about husbands attending dinner parties mainly to check for Sky Sports and investigates what Britain now wears to eat at a friend’s house What He Wore To Check The Sports Package The London Prat has a report on British dinner parties and why husbands mainly…
Revenue rose 38 percent, profit fell by nearly a fifth, and a survey of 100,000 members found that eight in ten use the site to buy things they could not otherwise afford If you want to understand what is happening to the British clothes shop, it helps to start with…
How second-hand went from a rainy-day rummage to the sharpest end of the capital’s clothing market The Charity Shop Is Now London’s Most Competitive Retail Floor At ten past nine on a Saturday morning, outside a charity shop in a well-heeled corner of north London, I counted eleven people waiting…
Inside the capital’s clothing rental trade, where the wedding season pays the bills and the dry cleaner holds the power Why Renting a Dress in London Costs Less Than Loving One Somewhere in London tonight, a silk dress is travelling across the city in a padded envelope for the fourth…
