Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Marsh only makes around 20 to 25 garments a year; the waiting list is several months long....
...“I use plastic beads, which I originally used to source from five-and-dime stores and Halloween shops,” he says of his practice, in which he transforms these pieces into objects of significance....
...The goal for the new store is to account for 8 to 9 per cent of total revenues....
...Once love has struck, it is hard to remember the most important rule of all, that the fit is more important than the garment....
...visitors per week to its shop seems a distant fantasy....
...OK, we are not a mom-and-pop shop, but we visit the stores often and get to know our customer — it’s what makes our work engaging.”...
...steamboatclive@hotmail.com; 07890-867 519 FG Miscellaneous Selfridges, UK At the London store and online there’s the Selfridges Repairs Concierge, which is a one-stop shop for repairs for shoes, accessories...
...Part of the retailer’s “Primark Cares” range, the garment was made in China and contains 50 per cent recycled nylon....
...“I first came across Bonfield in a beautifully curated store called The Merchant’s Table in Woodbridge, Suffolk....
...polyester garment....
...Home-sewing patterns suggest we finish a garment as if it were appropriate to go on the shop floor. But if I am making just for myself, I can be free from these constraints. Tailoring was next....
...The most sustainable garments are the ones already hanging in our wardrobe....
...“No sooner had we put some amazing piece of clothing in the shop than it had to go on sale because that was what the online shops and big retailers were doing....
...The new shop offered fresh styles that only 15 days earlier had been dreamt up at the company’s headquarters in Spain....
...She worked as a sales associate at a Calvin Klein store in Boston, which was where she was “discovered” by Susan Sokol, Calvin Klein’s president of women’s wear....
...“These ideas of boutiques and in-store events and fashion shows in stores, it became an experience. It changed how people consumed fashion.”...
...His collection has grown to several dozen Owens pieces, mostly from second-hand or outlet shops (he’s an obsessive deal-hunter)....
...The important thing for her has always been “the emotion that a garment creates”, she says, nestled on the furry sofa of her small shop floor, immaculate in light blue jeans, shirt and a herringbone jacket...
...What garment, exactly, is supposed to signal money more obviously than a vicuña wrap coat or a pair of Loro Piana Open Walks? A top hat and monocle? Give us a (very expensive) break....
...In addition, it has nearly 13,000 bricks-and-mortar stores across the country selling affordable apparel....
...Guillaume opened his Atelier de Nîmes shop just before Covid hit....
...The stores, filled with midcentury furniture and occasional capsules by the famed 20th-century French jeweller Line Vautrin (and a James Turrell light installation in the London shop), are already an excellent...
...(The luxury etailer’s “pickleball edit” also contains exclusive designs from The Frankie Shop, Leset and Sergio Hudson.)...
...When I began to rent videos, I was always the shop’s best customer.” It’s a nod to the enduring power of retail in his life....
...“It was this garment that basically created modern skiing,” says Antoine....
International Edition