HAVING been the world’s most famous Kylie for over 30 years, it must be tough for Ms Minogue to concede that a young pretender to her crown – Kylie Jenner – has now stolen that accolade, but what she is not willing to give up is her right to that most recognisable of forenames. Kylie … Read More →
RAF SIMONS has spoken about his future for the first time since leaving Dior. The designer, who ended his tenure at the French house last year after just three years in charge, has spent recent months focusing on his eponymous menswear line – although industry talk of another creative director role, most notably at Calvin … Read More →
Home Retail Group has divested its DIY arm Homebase, now owned by Australian group Wesfarmers following 99.3% of shareholders voting in favour of the move. The deal, first submitted in December, valued the business at £340m. It was approved at an AGM last week and the deal was completed at the weekend. Homebase will disappear from … Read More →
Britain’s five largest high street retailers have been late in paying suppliers 80% of the time, a new report has revealed. The findings, from peer-to-peer lenders MarketInvoice, highlighted John Lewis, Alliance Boots, Home Retail Group, Marks & Spencer and Kingfisher as the worst offenders in a prevailing industry trend for late payments to suppliers. Among … Read More →
Okay, folks, I’ll be honest. When I pitched this story to my editors, I wasn’t really thinking about the fact that February 29 isn’t actually going to feel like an extra special day or anything like that. It’s an arbitrarily designated period of 24 hours that wedges itself in between February 28 and March 1 … Read More →
Ellie Goulding isn’t exactly a household name in America, but there’s at least one major household in which she’s quite a star. That house is the House of Windsor, but if you want to get more specific, it’s Prince William and Kate Middleton’s. Goulding sang the song for the first dance at their 2011 wedding … Read More →
Winter is coming. While most of us can’t stop hoping, wishing, and generally praying that Jon Snow just gets up and declares his stabbing “only a flesh wound,” there’s one man in the world that has the power to control all that. Well, kind of. George R.R. Martin, whose writer’s block appears almost as significant … Read More →