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Nutria, a rodent destroying the Louisiana swamps, is being accepted as an environmentally-friendly way to wear fur

America tries on a new breed of guilt-free fur: drowned swamp rat

Stephen Foley: You can wear fur, look good, keep your morals intact – and save the environment, too.

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All Saints makes it big in America as sales surge

Thursday, 18 November 2010

The trendy fashion chain All Saints has delivered surging underlying sales this year and has been approached by a major US investment bank to explore its options, including a potential flotation. The retailer is also pushing ahead with its expansion in the US by opening new shops in Las Vegas and New York over the coming weeks.

US fashion chain comes to London

Thursday, 18 November 2010

The American fashion chain Forever 21 will open its first London branch in Oxford Street next year after acquiring the lease on a huge shop from the entertainment retailer HMV for nearly £14m. Forever 21 launched its first store in Birmingham's Bullring centre and in Dublin this month and hopes to create 100 outlets across Britain.

Burberry fashions record half year profits

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Burberry touted a strong performance in Asia and barnstorming sales of its leather aviator jackets for driving record half-year profits yesterday.

Will the arrival of Forever 21 make Sir Philip green with envy?

Saturday, 13 November 2010

A hugely successful American clothing chain has arrived in Britain. Topshop and Primark should be worried. Carola Long reports

The killer heels that will save lives

Thursday, 11 November 2010

For every child who dies of a preventable disease in an industrialized country, more than 2,000 children will die in developing countries such as Africa and India.

Cotton costs will our hit margins, warns Primark

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Primark expects the soaring price of cotton to "erode" some of the uplift in profit margins the discount fashion retailer delivered in its last financial year.

Designers, socialites... and now trade envoys

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Tamara Mellon, the socialite who founded upmarket shoe designer Jimmy Choo, has been recruited by David Cameron to bang the drum for British companies around the world.

Fashion website continues to defy market gravity

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

There may be pain on the high street, but Asos has had a bumper year. Susannah Frankel reports

H&M; 'going luxury' with new Lanvin collection

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Carola Long: Designer collections for the high street have been around for years now so it takes something special to make shoppers sit up and take notice.

The Queen's corsetier hits hard times as bra wars intensify

Monday, 1 November 2010

Rigby & Peller, the corsetier to the Queen and many Hollywood A-listers, may offer bras up to a formidable size M cup. Where profits are concerned, however, it is not so well-endowed: according to its latest annual accounts, the company made a loss of £214,000 last year, compared with a pre-tax profit of £168,000 the year before.

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