Hints and tips:
...Docherty and Martin Simcock met at art school in London in the ’70s; what followed was not only a friendship but a textile empire that, at its peak, would see their print creations stocked in more than 400 stores...
...For now, the stores will remain open....
...Another version I love (plus it’s handy in a chilly blast) is a smaller square wool scarf; I have a yellow one from Margaret Howell that is super-easy to wear....
...The range, labelled as “self-care”, launches today in its stores and online....
...The brand is small, with 32 employees; it has two standalone stores in London and Tokyo, two further mono-brand stores in South Korea and more than 250 stockists worldwide....
...I’d recommend Selfridges for the sheer volume of brands in one spot or Trilogy, a denim specialist with stores across London....
...Kestin Hare, who formerly worked at Nigel Cabourn and Margaret Howell, now turns Harris Tweed into workwear gilets and Black Watch tartans into cotton chore jackets (£229)....
...For things such as jeans, your run-of-the-mill thrift stores or Oxfams are great....
...Same-store sales declined 7.7 per cent in the year to January 2021 and dropped a further 3.3 per cent the following year....
...Here, Romeo, or Romy (Callum Scott Howells), is a teenage dad, trying to manage his tiny infant daughter single-handedly....
...It was probably 10 or 12 years ago that I bought this indigo denim jacket from Margaret Howell — it seems forever ago....
...“We used to visit the store in New York once a year and buy a dozen shirts – generally white, maybe the odd pink one – with boxer shorts,” says Gulliver....
...My attitude is normal, says make-up artist Teddy Mitchell, who has groomed the likes of It’s a Sin star Callum Scott Howells....
...“They’re very if you know, you know,” says Sam Millen-Cramer, a 28-year-old marketing specialist, who wears his £15 Mountain Warehouse zip-up with baggy pants from Margaret Howell....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a charcoal-grey pinstripe Margaret Howell blazer. When I am in London, I buy her clothes at Liberty....
...Cashmere is worth the money (but always freeze new additions — whether they are from a store or second-hand — for a couple of days in a plastic bag to kill off any moths)....
...That means it can be shifted from a cutting machine to a store shelf in hours — not days....
...Margaret Howell linen tie, £95. Jimmy Choo leather shoes, £750....
...During mid-June’s heatwave, I selected a Hanro vest layered under a much-loved Margaret Howell linen waistcoat....
...Deciding to take evening classes in ceramics took her in a new direction, and today she crafts wheel-thrown wares, making limited-edition jugs and lamp bases for Margaret Howell’s stores, as well as expanding...
...(Service Works’ classic chef pants cost £59; similar styles from Margaret Howell cost upwards of £200.)...
...Established designers like Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Margaret Howell were joined by a dynamic new generation that came to the city to study and stayed to open studios....
...By the end of the 1970s, Howell was stocked in stores around the world, and her fame was growing....
...Comfortable underwear has perhaps never felt so needed, with many brands and stores reporting spikes in revenue over the past year....
...his wife discovered Petersham, Joseph was poised to sell a worldwide retail empire that had introduced Kenzo, Alaïa and Yohji Yamamoto to the UK as well as championed young British talent like Margaret Howell...
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