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November 9, 2011
One of the most awaited collection presentations of the London Fashion Week, the Buberry Prorsum Spring 2012 collection has been presented yesterday. With a subtle nostalgic feeling, the same commitment for classy elegant designs and fabulous color touches, the luxury label certainly didn’t disappoint anyone.
One of the most awaited collection presentations of the London Fashion Week, the Buberry Prorsum Spring 2012 collection has been presented yesterday. With a subtle nostalgic feeling, the same commitment for classy elegant designs and fabulous color touches, the luxury label certainly didn’t disappoint [...]
October 23, 2011
Fashion house Burberry has indicated that demand for luxury branded goods, such as its coats and leather bags, remained strong despite the global uncertainty.
The company, which is famous for its red, black and camel check, said bumper sales through its Chinese outlets and flagship stores in London, Paris and New York helped half-year revenues jump by 30 percent to £830m.
Despite the figures coming in ahead of City hopes, shares have dropped more than 20 percent since July on fears of a slowdown in China.
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October 22, 2011
War has broken out between Milan and New York – with London the first casualty – as the top Fashion capitals clash over the dates of their rival Style marathons, held back-to-back once every six months.
Twice a year the global pack of fashion buyers, style gurus and journalists trek across the world to scout styles for spring-summer and autumn-winter, stopping for eight days in New York, five in London, seven in Milan and nine for the finale in Paris.
But the 29-day Fashion Week calendar for [...]
June 18, 2011
BURBERRY laid claim to being one of the success stories of the credit crisis yesterday with monster profits – and plans for global growth.
The luxury label, famed for its camel check, raked in £298million in the past year – a rise of 39 per cent.
Sales of everything from classic trench coats to £1,500 handbags soared. Boss Angela Ahrendts now wants to DOUBLE investment this year to £200million to plant new flagship stores across the world.
New spruced-up sites will open in Paris, Milan, Chicago, Hong [...]
June 17, 2011
LONDON, United Kingdom — For years, digital media experts and observers, including those on this website, have held up Burberry as an example of a luxury Fashion brand that’s effectively embracing today’s digital world.
Last year, Joanna Shields, Vice President EMEA for Facebook, the world’s largest social network now with more than 700 million registered users, took that one step further. “Burberry is no longer just a fashion company — today they are a thriving media enterprise,” she said. “Burberry is now the most widely followed fashion brand [...]
June 16, 2011
Burberry Prorsum‘s Autumn/Winter Collection was inspired not by the contemporary or the futuristic, but from delving back into its own British archives of the late 60s – the era of trench coats, creeper shoes and icons like Jean Shrimpton. Christopher Bailey, Burberry’s Chief Creative Officer says of the newly released ad campaign featuring the collection “We wanted to create a group of portraits celebrating British actors, musicians and models.”
The campaign’s June cast includes a handful that undoubtedly bring to the table a real sense of Britishness as faces [...]
June 15, 2011
FTSE: 5,864.65 (+1.49) Mid-250: 12,008.79 (+11.86) Small Cap: 3,285.56 (+10.46) LONDON MARKETS were a little higher in morning trade yesterday as bid speculation trumped growth concerns after a disappointing UK retail sales survey.
Burberry, a Fashion retailer, was the biggest gainer in early trade after the company was boosted by reports in France that luxury goods group PPR was in talks to make a large acquisition.
“The news is helping to entice speculative traders into the luxury goods sector today, giving lift to Burberry’s share price,” said Joshua [...]
June 13, 2011
You can always rely on Burberry to uncover the British stars of the future, and the cast of its new autumn/winter 2011 advertising campaign is no exception. Starring a bevy of budding actresses, cutting-edge musicians and models, the campaign was inspired by ‘iconic British portraits’ and the luxury brand’s own archives from the ‘60s featuring shots of Jean Shrimpton, according to Burberry Chief Creative Officer, Christopher Bailey. The campaign will change each month throughout the season and feature different homegrown faces [...]
June 12, 2011
Emerging actress Felicity Jones, best known for her roles in BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers , Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s film Cemetery Junction and the title role in Chalet Girl , has been unveiled as the new face of British Fashion label Burberry. View the Burberry Prorsum autumn/winter 2011 collection
Birmingham-born Jones, 27, was chosen, alongside a cast of British actors, models and musicians, by Burberry’s chief creative officer, Christopher Bailey because of her retro allure.
”I was inspired by iconic British portraits and [...]
May 21, 2011
eder seizoen zijn er zoveel modetrends dat je het soms even niet meer weet. Met deze alfabetische lijst hebt u alle trends in een handig overzicht. Hieronder het eerste deel van het ABC met alle modetrends voor lente / zomer 2011.
A-lijn
De wijduitlopende tops, jurken en broeken zijn dit seizoen niet weg te denken uit de winkels. Vooral op de jaren zestig en zeventig geïnspireerde kledingstukken die de vorm van de letter A hebben, zijn een musthave.
Bloemen
Op de catwalk voor dit voorjaar zagen we veelvuldig kledingstukken [...]
