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...“The hegemony of crewnecks has been going on for so long that the younger generations think the V-neck is a recent invention,” says menswear designer Oliver Spencer....
...Brioni has also amped up the polo shirt’s texture, weaving polos in a thick ribbed cotton and wool blend, while Zegna’s have a slouchy, oversized fit and dramatic scooped V-necks....
...Outbuildings include farmhouses, a 16th-century dovecote and a mill....
...“When the big retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley started to do off-shore sourcing in the ’80s and early ’90s, that was the death of a lot of textile companies in the UK,” Woodhouse says....
...GlobalData forecasts that rival Marks and Spencer will continue to gradually grow market share in the UK clothing and footwear sector out to 2027, while John Lewis’s share is expected to stagnate over the...
...The then prime minister Spencer Perceval responded by sending troops to northern mill towns. The Luddites, meanwhile, stockpiled arms and melted down machine metal for bullets....
...She didn’t finish her degree, cutting her design teeth at Diesel in the 1990s, followed by Marks & Spencer, where she designed shirts and chinos....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...In her final year of study, she was also awarded the Young Masters Maylis grand ceramic prize and has since shown at the V&A, Christie’s and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery....
...Zegna creates minimal suits and separates in high-performing technical fabrics woven at the company’s own mill....
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...The textile department of London’s V&A museum has sent boxes of fabric scraps to turn into paper, which will then go back to its paper-conservation department, which has “a nice circularity”, observes Frith-Powell...
...It’s the most clever, versatile piece of engineering – you can cut with it, drill holes with it and mill with it – and it’s also a rather beautiful shape. I suppose its form has followed its function....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Dharma Taylor at Oliver Spencer London-based Dharma Taylor, whose work spans furniture, textiles and menswear, will exhibit at the Bloomsbury outpost of fashion brand Oliver Spencer....
...They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...He graduated in engineering then showed a flair for entrepreneurship, sourcing and distributing T-shirts and Teletubbies merchandise to retailers such as Marks and Spencer....
...It was when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 that media attention snowballed. The ceremony was watched by 750mn people around the world....
...As ever, get in touch with Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with thoughts for new articles. Happy reading!...
...It shows a bit of guts, it would seem to me, that Sunak has not let it drop that he buys his suits at Marks and Spencer or someplace similar....
...Lady Diana Spencer, who married Prince Charles in 1981 to become Princess of Wales, would quickly become an international celebrity who outshone her husband and mother-in-law....
...For the arts centre’s Spencer, South Shields has already moved on, beyond what is understood by Westminster....
...“The rumour mills are now grinding around a possible bid by Apollo Global Management,” said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown....
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