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Show Calendar
Show Calendar spring 14
Find that crucial point of difference next season by hitting the show circuit armed with our essential guide.
Feature
Close-Up Preview: Michele Malenotti, marketing and business expansion director at Matchless
Drapers gives you an exclusive sneak-peak of our Close-Up interview with Michele Malenotti, previous owner of outerwear brand Belstaff and now board member and marketing and business expansion director at motorcycle and clothing brand Matchless, ahead of the full interview in this weekend’s edition.
Ecomm
Enter the dragon’s den
Fashion retailers looking to take a share of China’s huge market need to understand its online players.
Close up
Close up: Wendy Malem, director, The Centre for Fashion Enterprise
The Centre for Fashion Enterprise director is rightly proud of the organisation’s unsung work nurturing London’s fashion stars.
Shopwatch
Phase Eight, James St, London
A Phase Eight store tends to be one of those shops that you feel ought to be a well-to-do indie, but is actually part of a relatively substantial chain.
In depth
Fashion’s moral crisis in Bangladesh
The latest disaster to hit factory workers in Bangladesh has put the UK fashion sector’s supply policies back in the spotlight.
Fashion Blogs and Comment
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Dior cruise 2014: Wow with a capital W
Raf Simons’ show in Monaco was a gamble that’ll surely pay off.
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Deputy Diary: M&S - the saga continues Video
This time last week, we were waiting for Marks & Spencer to unveil its autumn 13 womenswear collection (see Drapers’ thoughts on this Reuters video) to see if it could rescue falling clothing sales; today we await its less favourable full-year results due out tomorrow.
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Bangladesh: 'Ethics' is not a dirty word
It is impossible for the images coming out of Bangladesh in the past few weeks not to leave their impact and, in discussing the business response to the tragedy, we must not lose sight of the fact that people have lost their lives because sufficient precautions were not taken.
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With £600 gilets, M&S A13 falls wide of the mark
The much-anticipated preview of Marks & Spencer’s autumn 13 collection drew everyone’s focus to the quality of the range – but at what expense to the actual customer?
Competition
Drapers and Cotton USA launch search for next big cotton designer
Celebrating 10 years of successful designer sponsorship.
Drapers Supply Chain Report Survey
In June 2013 Drapers will publish its ‘Supply Chain Report'. For the report, in association with Kerry Logistics and Quantum Retail, Drapers is running a brief multiple-choice survey and we would very much appreciate it if you could fill it out.
