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…
Behind the front row is a buying-and-selling exercise on which a great many small London businesses depend London Fashion Week Is a Trade Show Wearing a Very Good Coat Twice a year, in February and September, a portion of central London becomes very difficult to walk through. Pavements fill with…
A week among the capital’s clothing traders, where the margins are thin, the mornings are early and the taste is impeccable From Portobello to Brick Lane, the Market Stall Is Still London’s Best Fashion School The first lesson of market trading is that the day starts before you want it…
What a bespoke suit actually costs in London, who is still buying one, and why the trade refuses to hurry Savile Row Would Like a Word About Your Whistle and Flute There is a particular silence that falls in a Savile Row fitting room when a customer asks how long…
Comparable sales rose 2 percent, gross margin hit 67.9 percent and the shares still fell more than 5 percent, which tells you what the market was hoping for Burberry has a habit of making a plain thing look expensive, and its latest annual results are a fair demonstration. For the…
Works between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street were due to begin on 2 September, years after a plan named 2022 a year of delivery, and the shops want to know who is coming Oxford Street has been about to be rescued for so long that the rescue has become…
The retailer says Britain is performing better than expected, Europe escapes the increase, and the Strait of Hormuz explains the rest The cost of a cardigan is not usually a matter of foreign policy, but in 2026 it has become one. Next, the British fashion and home retailer, said it…
The British Fashion Council’s provisional line-up put a high street retailer, a resale platform and a Paul Smith Foundation designer-in-residence on the same calendar as McQueen and Burberry London Fashion Week was scheduled to run from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 September 2026, and the British Fashion Council published its…
