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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....
...“We’re seeing luxury brands evolve the polo by experimenting with fabrication, pattern and construction,” says Mr Porter’s style director, Olie Arnold....
...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....
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...In 1988, Marks and Spencer bought Kings, a US supermarket chain, which was later sold for a fraction of its purchase price....
...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....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 30. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...When Covid-19 stimulus packages ended, “that was a big, big turning point”, said Ravi Saligram, chief executive of Newell Brands, the company behind Sharpie pens and Coleman tents....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...It takes a while to find a picture of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley on the website of her beauty brand, Rose Inc....
...Where once wearing a pair of tracksuit bottoms to the office might have got you sacked, now brands from Marks and Spencer to Paul Smith are creating two-pieces crafted from tailoring fabrics finished with...
...No female leader would get away with Boris Johnson’s brand of slept-in-his-clothes disarray....
...“You can have a corporate entity use that for branding, but more importantly, you can then get to tell a story about how [much of a] cool and forward-looking brand you are.”...
...The once popular Sussex brand has moved away from the core suite of products and must either be retired or refreshed....
...Marks and Spencer’s Cool Comfort polyamide slip (£20, marksandspencer.com) comes in seven shades and up to seven lengths....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...What Aintabi did not know was that the board had already engaged headhunters Spencer Stuart to find a successor....
...Even Oliver Spencer, proprietor of Favourbrook, a brand built on the flamboyance of the velvet jacket, sounds a note of caution....
...The emergence of Diana Spencer in 1981 caused a storm of media interest in her clothes (velvet knee breeches, piecrust collars), her attitudes and her language — in fact, in everything about her....
...Together with Anthony Good, a British PR executive who brought brands such as Marks & Spencer to India, and other investors, he acquired Cox & Kings around 1980, according to Courtney’s manuscript....
...Sujata Dantiki, a former global ecommerce strategy manager at Newell Brands who is now a consultant with SSA in New York, noted it came at a time of tension between some consumer packaged goods groups and...
...He purchased $11m of stock in consumer goods maker Newell Brands, whose shares are down almost 30 per cent this year....
...Mr Del Vecchio took charge after he bought the business from Marks and Spencer in 2001 for $225m, a fraction of the $750m that the UK retailer had paid for it....
...e-commerce group’s own environmental impact, and a start-up touted as the “Uber of dry cleaning” collapsed into administration on Friday, wiping out all of its investors, including British businessman Michael Spencer...
...Jefferies goes up to “buy” on Marks & Spencer, 160p target price. MKS' FY confirmed improving Food resilience, a trend we expect to persist in the months ahead....
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