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M&S hires new visual merchandising boss Marks & Spencer has appointed a new head of store experience. M&S has announced the appointment of its new head of visual merchandising, Ben Witmann, who is currently senior director of omnichannel marketing and visual merchandising for Gap Europe, and will join in August He will focus will be developing a “world class visual customer experience” in partnership with store design and brand marketing. He will work directly under Anna Braithwaite, who wi...

M&S boss for third-party brands to exit Marks & Spencer’s business lead for third-party brands, Sarah Savva, is exiting in July, as the retailer bolsters its external brands team, Drapers can reveal. Savva joined M&S in July 2020 on a fixed-term basis, to bring third party fashion brands into the business for the first time. In October womenswear brand Nobody’s Child launched on M&S’s website, as exclusively revealed by Drapers at the time. In the same month, the retailer also teamed up...

TFG also booked an after-tax non-cash impairment of 2.7 billion rand ($192.4 million) for its London business, which includes the Hobbs and Phase Eight clothing brands.

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As Covid-19 restrictions weighed across its markets.

Williams will join from Frugi, where he has been director of ecommerce and marketing since 2019, at the end of May. He joined the kidswear brand from

Bake Off’s Laura Adlington on her plus-size style mission: I want to help women feel good about themselves I want to show that just because you’re plus-size, you don’t have to be wearing black and baggy clothes, says the Bake Off finalist 13 May 2021 • 5:00am Laura wearing dresses from Finerys collection for Simply Be Over the ten episodes of Bake Off’s 2020 series, it was Laura Adlington who captured the hearts of the nation through her charming, unpredictable rollercoaster of incred...

Share Ariane Zagury worked in investment banking in Paris and London until she moved to Hong Kong where, upon seeing a lack of variety in designer brands for women’s fashion, she founded rue Madame, utilising her family’s roots as textile retailers back in France to create a unique concept store. Founded in 2010, rue Madame focused on providing stylish and wearable pieces at reasonable prices for its clientele. Combined with Zagury’s unrelenting attention to detail and her charisma, s...

Queen Letizia wows in bold summer ensemble for royal visit Hello! 1 day ago Queen Letizia just stepped out in the ultimate summer ensemble – and it has serious Kate Middleton vibes. Attending the 6th Educational Congress on Rare Diseases, the monarch teamed her fiery red culottes from Uterque with a white puff-sleeved blouse by Massimo Dutti.  RELATED:  VIDEO: Queen Letizias Sweet Summer Style Accessorising her desk-to-daywear look with block heels and gold jewellery, the mum-of-two was...

Royal Ascot is challenging racegoers to wear second-hand clothes 28 April 2021 • 5:00am Bethan Holt in various Royal Ascot outfits from a charity shop I’ve had many a panic about Royal Ascot looks in my time – wearing everything from a Topshop dress picked up on a last-minute dash to a Jess Collett hat worth several hundred pounds kindly loaned to me by the milliner herself – but none has quite matched the challenge to find an outfit worthy of one of the biggest fashion occasions of the...