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...I was always obsessed with expressing myself through clothing,” says Duran Lantink, 36....
...“I like clothing, not fashion.”...
...“The reality is that most women will not buy something that doesn’t permit them to wear a bra,” says Ikram Goldman, founder of high-end Chicago clothing store Ikram....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...His clothing label A-Cold-Wall*, established in 2014, has standalone stores in China and a fleet of collaborations with names including Eastpak, Nike and Converse....
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
...“These ideas of boutiques and in-store events and fashion shows in stores, it became an experience. It changed how people consumed fashion.”...
...The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe is a Vétra workwear jacket from The Conran Shop....
...The customer for gender-fluid men’s clothing is niche at best, but even if men don’t take it up, her female clients certainly will....
...Or the other way to think about it is if like, your list is like, I want a black V-neck cashmere sweater, it’s like, well, what is the best version of that black V-neck sweater?...
...and V de Vinster’s mixture of bohemian tops and unique pieces....
...Retail is the largest private-sector employer in the country with hundreds of thousands of hourly-paid staff in stores and distribution centres....
...Streets, bars, restaurants and clothing stores were named after the TV show, reflecting the aspirational vision of nirvana dished up by the Californian serial....
...Philipp Nagel, director of London-based Neatsmith, which designs wardrobe and other storage spaces for the home, talks to clients in depth about their clothing....
...The next step is opening a permanent store. “It could be in the US,” he muses. “It’s actually my biggest market now, because of Netflix.”...
...The appetite for pre-loved clothing has never been greater, with a thredUP report last year predicting that the market could overtake fast fashion by the end of the decade....
...The store of value function is important; in many countries, family heirlooms are the main stock of wealth....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery, at best, this is going to be a U-shaped.”...
...He added that this was likely to suggest a slower recovery than the “so far, so V [shaped]” assessment of the BoE’s chief economist, Andy Haldane....
...Clothing and other non-food items increased their proportion of online retailing in May to record levels as stores reopened their websites after a pause in trading in April, according to the ONS....
...Sales in cars and parts, clothing stores, electronics, appliances and home furniture also gained....
...The public health crisis has made more Americans unwilling or unable to eat out or go on holiday, while demand for clothing has dropped....
...But, with many likely to stay there by choice, where does that leave bricks and mortar stores?...
...Earlier data increases our economists conviction in a V-shaped recovery: Economic data in aggregate have continued to surprise to the upside, building our confidence in a V-shaped recovery....
...(FT) US retailers lay bare cost of being deemed ‘non-essential’ Sales have surged at those allowed to stay open in the coronavirus pandemic but collapsed at department stores, clothing chains and other...
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