Hints and tips:
...H&M’s head of design Ann-Sofie Johansson explains why Rokh attracted the chain’s interest, saying: “We have been keeping an eye on the brand for several years now....
...You really don’t want any echoes of first job workwear from Ann Taylor or Club Monaco circa 2010....
...Ann Lipton is the Michael M....
...At Prada, black and pink versions were given strong shoulders; Ann Demeulemeester sent biker jackets to the floor; and Jonathan Anderson deconstructed a classic shearling at Loewe....
...Check out Stella McCartney, Reiss, Max Mara, Cefinn and NRBY....
...(I went to two weddings in two different states last week and I’m still recovering.)...
...I’m not sure the experience took Balenciaga out of any “easily definable” categories, but it was fun, clever and surprising. Everything one hopes a physical show should be....
...“Everything happens in this room,” says 72-year-old Tangye, a former tutor and head of womenswear design at Central Saint Martins whose pupils included John Galliano, Stella McCartney and Christopher Kane...
...Alongside major fashion campaigns for Loewe, Stella McCartney and Calvin Klein, M/M have also worked for artists including Sarah Morris and Philippe Parreno....
...At first Trudel focused on American designers – Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Marc Jacobs – before adding British talents such as Stella McCartney and Julien Macdonald to the mix....
...“I’m determined to carry that energy into the future,” he says. “That passion to push boundaries burns even brighter than before.”...
...I’m with you, sister....
...Globally, 850 retailers are now signed up as Fur Free Retailers, from John Lewis, Topshop and M&S, to Armani and Gucci....
...As the biographer Ann Thwaite put it in her fine life of Milne, “one’s pen freezes in one’s hand”. Yet plenty more have been undeterred....
...Similarly, a pair of 1820 flat slippers, a 1960s paper dress and a 2005 jumpsuit designed by Stella McCartney for the high-street brand H&M are bracketed under the title of “Cost” as examples of inexpensive...
...This is leading to a level of caution from overseas investors,” said Ann Bentley, global chairman of Rider Levett Bucknall, the construction consultancy....
...I’m assuming the pound will remain weak against the dollar, but could firm against the euro, and oil prices stay around $50pb....
...“I’m addicted to that instant of surprise where you do something and all of a sudden it becomes something else. It’s a beginning and I like beginnings.”...
...Labour insider on Murphy v Alexander: “There is history between them. Jim is more street fighter and Alpha....
...Ann Pettifor, director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) We at PRIME expect growth to slow by at least 0.5% next year....
...But I’m not sure the effect will be very large....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...On models v celebrities: “Models on a cover just don’t sell. But it was always true that only a certain kind of model could really sell on a cover....
...I’m 48 and there are ladies-who-lunch players who suffer from mutton-dressed-as-lamb syndrome.”...
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