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30 Jun

LONDON – The Vampire’s Wife, a fashion brand known for its flowing sharp-shouldered dresses and gothic charm, is ready to be placed into receivership by the British courts next month. An organization statement confirmed that U.K. Revenue and Customs officials have issued a winding-up order for the corporate, with a court date set for July 12. A winding up order is issued when a British court decides that an organization cannot pay its debts. An officer of the court, or receiver, is then put accountable for winding up the corporate. The officer freezes an organization’s bank accounts and sells its assets. The statement said the wind-up order was on account of “debt built up as a consequence of lockdown strategies to tackle the...

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30 Jun

Sabyasachi Mukherjee Sweeps London, Bernard Arnault Makes an Impression

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Sabyasachi Mukherjee Sweeps London, Bernard Arnault Makes an Impression

ANIMAL INSTINCTS: Maximalist designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee swept into London, and into British royal circles this week, bearing a bunch of special creations. He showed his high jewelry collection at Lancaster House, round the corner to St. James’s Palace, and created the white elephant-shaped shola masks that King Charles III and Queen Camilla wore to the Animal Ball, a fundraiser in aid of the Elephant Family charity on Wednesday night. Elephant Family is a charity cofounded by Mark Shand, Queen Camilla’s late brother, that works to guard Asia’s wildlife and natural landscapes. “Save the elephants, and then you definately save the forest — and then you definately save yourself,” Shand told W Magazine, WWD’s former sister publication, in 2008. The charming Shand fell...

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22 Jun

Smythson Partners With London College of Fashion on Out

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Smythson Partners With London College of Fashion on Out

LONDON — Smythson has partnered with 15 students and tutors from London College of Fashion to document their creative journey from start to complete in a project titled Out of the Blue, a nod to the brand’s signature shade. “The primary marks in a recent notebook could be daunting because it might probably feel like you're defacing a really precious and beautifully made object. So, to start, I open any page and just draw anything from memory, using a lot of colours, media and, most significantly, a lot of mess, that in turn prevents me from becoming overly precious, igniting the journey of bravely putting thought to page,” said Rob Phillips, the creative director for the School of Design and Technology...

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17 Jun