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Matchesfashion axes half its staff after going into administration

...Matches, which Mike Ashley’s Frasers bought in December for £52mn, sells about 600 high-end designer brands such as Gucci, Tom Ford and Saint Laurent....

March 8, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Culture Chat — Jennifer Lopez’s baffling ‘This is Me . . . Now’

...We don’t have a Tom cruise anymore. We’re never gonna have another Jennifer Aniston and Ben Affleck or . . . Lilah Raptopoulos Brad Pitt . . . Claire Parker Brad Pitt. That’s right. Yeah....

February 23, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Mortgages

UK mortgage approvals surge to highest level since October 2022

...Ashley Webb, an economist at Capital Economics, said the BoE figures suggested “the drag on consumer spending and the housing market from higher interest rates [was] easing”, adding: “The recession will...

February 29, 2024

UK retail industry

Surviving UK department stores seek to avoid fate of fallen rivals

...Tom Athron, chief executive of luxury food and gift retailer Fortnum & Mason, believes the role of department stores has changed dramatically over the past decade....

January 5, 2024

Menswear

V-necks are back

...“It’s hard to look past Tom Ford for the perfect classic V-neck that will last you for ever,” he explains....

April 8, 2024

The Big Read

The implosion in luxury ecommerce

...At Matches, Tom and Ruth Chapman, a husband and wife team who founded the business as a boutique in a London suburb in 1987, sold a majority stake to Apax 2017....

March 29, 2024

FT Live

Business of Luxury Summit

Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year

FT SeriesThe interiors edit

Exciting lighting: unusual table lamps

...spheres on a solid oak base. henryhollandstudio.com Venus by Pinto, €8,500 Part of the brand’s Constellations collection, which includes a matching floor lamp. pintoparis.com Melt portable light by Tom...

August 27, 2023

ReviewTheatre

Ruth Wilson’s stunning 24-hour performance in The Second Woman — review

...It’s that story that Ashley Robinson’s new play adapts, creating an intimate work for stage....

May 24, 2023

HTSI

Bute Fabrics – a loom with a view

...The mill, which stands in the Firth of Clyde, 33 miles west of Glasgow, has in its time woven for Dior, Balenciaga, five-star hotels and globally known taste-makers including Tom Dixon and Drake’s of London...

March 10, 2024

HTSI

Laura Ashley’s granddaughters are the original cottagecore

...Driver, Tom Wilson at Pro Lighting. Production, Lucy Watson. Special thanks to The Roast Ox in Painscastle and the Ashley family. Shot on location in Wales...

May 27, 2022

Helen Thomas

Linda Evangelista moment: how the £100mn pay club went wrong

...Michael Murray, son-in-law and successor to Mike Ashley at Frasers Group, could get stock worth £100mn if its shares more than double to £15 before October 2025....

February 21, 2023

Next PLC

Next buys Joules out of administration for £34mn

...Reiss, Gap UK, Laura Ashley, Victoria’s Secret and JoJo Maman Bebe are also platform clients....

December 1, 2022

UK mortgage rates

UK mortgage approvals drop more than expected as borrowing costs rise

...Ashley Webb, UK economist at the consultancy Capital Economics, agreed....

November 29, 2022

The Art Market

Christie’s tests the Old Masters market with no-reserve sale

...“The NFT market was too frothy,” says Tom Mouna of Zien. The boom in African art continues with a show at Sotheby’s Tel Aviv called Contemporary Redefined: Africa Today (February 5-May 5)....

January 19, 2023

ReviewDance

Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage review — deeply moving dance tackles human rights

...Jay Gower Taylor’s towering set becomes a major player thanks to Tom Visser’s sepulchral lighting....

October 19, 2022

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Workplace diversity & equality

Less elitism, more inclusion: the legal industry aims for change

...When Tom joined a City law firm, he did not expect anyone to care what his father did for a living, or where he went to school....

October 17, 2022

Workplace diversity & equality

In-house lawyers use position to speak up on diversity

...“Companies are apt to say ‘we’re not brilliant at this but neither are we any worse than our peers’,” says Ashley....

October 5, 2022

ReviewTheatre

My Neighbour Totoro — five-star staging of a much-loved film

...The result — in the hands of playwright Tom Morton-Smith, director Phelim McDermott, designer Tom Pye, lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun and puppeteer Basil Twist — is a gorgeous, uplifting tribute...

October 19, 2022

ReviewFilm

Ruth Wilson succumbs to erotic obsession in the woozy True Things

...One day, a sexy bit-of-rough client with bleached blond hair and a prison record (Tom Burke of The Souvenir) shows up at her desk and asks her out for lunch....

March 31, 2022

ReviewMusic

All-American show impresses at New York Philharmonic and an enchanting Robert Ashley revival

...Tom Hamilton, an Ashley collaborator for more than 30 years, recreated the electronic score, and Tom Moody did the simple set and subtle lighting. ★★★★☆ roulette.org...

October 28, 2021

Special ReportThe Business of Cricket

English game’s diversity failure delivers new blow in testing times

...Tom Harrison, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the sport’s national governing body, delivers a sombre verdict: “All is not well within the game.”...

February 5, 2022

FT Magazine

Welcome to the real farmers of TikTok

...Charlotte Ashley, 33, is a farmer from Cumbria with almost 90,000 followers on TikTok (@charlotteashleyfarm)....

August 5, 2022

Due Diligence

Thoma Bravo goes dark on a UK deal Premium

...She will be replaced by Rothesay managing director Tom Pearce....

September 9, 2022

FT SeriesHow To Spend It spring fashion special

Could fine dining be the saviour of the department store?

...Both chefs will be “amongst friends” says Saxton, joining a roster that already includes Gordon Ramsay, Jason Atherton, Vineet Bhatia and Tom Kerridge....

February 7, 2022

City Bulletin

Ashley-owned Frasers warns of property write-offs Premium

...Mike Ashley’s Frasers retail group doubled its expected write-off of property values and related assets, saying further Covid-19 related restrictions to trading looked “almost certain”....

April 9, 2021

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