Business
Selfridges profits fell 10 percent pre-Covid, but sales rose
Selfridges has reported a 10 percent drop in operating profit to 88 million pounds for the year ending 2 February 2020, just prior to the pandemic took a grip on the UK’s retail industry. Sales during the period increased 7 percent to 1.97 billion pounds, the company revealed in an update on Thursday. It came amid “a challenging retail backdrop...
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Fashion
Fashion: an artist's canvas in a post-pandemic world
The marriage of art and fashion is not only going strong, it’s renewing its vows. The annals of fashion history are peppered with the biggest names in art: Salvador Dalí sparked the imagination of Schiaparelli in the 30s, Piet Mondriaan inspired Yves Saint Laurent in 1965, Louis Vuitton partnered with Takashi Murakami in 2007 and Alexander...
20 Jan 2021