Yearly Archives: 2012

February 22, 2012

LFW celebrates young British talent

Fashionista is a big supporter of new British talent through her work with the Centre for Fashion Enterprise, a pioneering business incubator that nurtures young talent within the fashion industry.  And she was justifiably proud as she watched some of her favourite young designers triumph at London Fashion Week.  On Saturday she saw J JS Lee‘s [...]
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February 13, 2012

Fashionista In the Dock…

Fashionista’s recent judicial jaunt to the Employment Appeal Tribunal north of the Border has uncovered a gem of a case that should prove useful to all you fashion houses and retailers that choose to sponsor budding or promising designers through university courses [G E Caledonian Ltd v McCandliss EAT/0069/10]. Even though such university sponsorship may [...]
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February 6, 2012

Online customer reviews: Be careful what you say about them!

Providing a forum for customer feedback on websites and blogs is increasingly common including in the fashion retail sphere. Afterall everyone, including Fashionista, likes a recommendation before making a purchase. However, if you do provide this type of service or functionality you need to be careful that you don’t make any statements which imply (directly [...]
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January 27, 2012

Luxury goods retailers invest in premium retail sites

Competition for key central London stores reached a new level following the decision by Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of French luxury goods group LVMH (pictured) to purchase three stores on Bond Street for £300 million as reported in Reuters and Yahoo.   Fashionista understands that the shops include LVMH’s Louis Vuitton flagship store at 17-20 New Bond Street and two other stores let to [...]
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January 26, 2012

EU Data Protection Reform: Initial Reaction to Published Proposals

We reported a while back on leaked drafts of the new European data protection Regulation. Yesterday, the official version was published and Fashionista’s colleagues at Olswang spent a busy day analysing the practical implications of the proposal. Their more detailed analysis for in house counsel can be found here. The highlights Fashionista says you must know [...]
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January 19, 2012

Do The Current Currency Thing and Pay in Yuan

Many UK fashion businesses have  recently been looking to increase margins by switching to paying their Chinese suppliers in Yuan. According to ChinaDaily.com, by making the switch Chinese suppliers have less of a need to build in a buffer in costs to guard against currency fluctuations – particularly in longer term contracts. This means suppliers are more [...]
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January 3, 2012

2012: a difficult year in store…?

After the optimism of strong footfall figures on Boxing Day, high street retailers were reminded of the current challenging trading conditions following a fall in the number of shoppers during the January sales period as reported in the Telegraph on Monday. During December 2011, clothing retailer D2 Jeans and Barratts Priceless entered into administration and it is expected that they [...]
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