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30 Jan

Apax Pumps 60M Kilos Into Matchesfashion as Turnaround Takes Hold

  LONDON — Private equity investor Apax has given Matchesfashion a vote of confidence in the form of 60 million kilos in fresh funding. The investment comes on the heels of an improved performance under the newest chief executive officer Nick Beighton, who joined the retailer last summer. The 60 million kilos is comprised of 40 million kilos in fresh equity, and 20 million kilos in debt. It represents Apax’s largest commitment to Matchesfashion because it purchased the corporate in 2017 from founders Tom and Ruth Chapman, and other investors. Beighton told WWD the 60 million pound injection was a show of “confidence in my executive team, strategy and potential.” He said the cash means “we’ll have the ability to raised utilize technology, product, logistics...
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19 Dec

Our Legacy’s Collection for Matchesfashion, Tremaine Emory’s Latest Collaboration

Polished, Punk, Posh: From Sweden to London. The cult Swedish brand Our Legacy has collaborated with luxury retailer Matchesfashion on a 12-piece capsule collection titled “Work Shop,” produced from deadstock fabrics and highlighting British craftsmanship. The brand has installed a workshop pop-up inside Matchesfashion’s London town house 5 Carlos Place until Sunday, where customers can get complimentary customization added to their Our Legacy pieces, old and recent, by British-Indian designer Namita Khade and multidisciplinary artist Hank Grüner. Our Legacy Work Shop for Matchesfashion. Courtesy of Matchesfashion “We’ve at all times had an admiration for the British Isles, especially coming from Sweden and Scandinavia, where we romanticize it a little bit bit and so many pop cultural things got here from here after we were young,”...
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2 Dec

Matchesfashion to Launch Barbour x Chloé Collaboration

The Barbour x Chloé long-awaited collaboration is able to fly, with a winged jacket and coat that may available exclusively on Matchesfashion. Chloé creative director Gabriela Hearst, who was born and raised in Uruguay, said her Barbour roots run deep. She grew up watching her father and stepfather – each gauchos, or South American cowboys – wear the waxed cotton jackets. “I actually have a special reference to Barbour. I had all of it my life because growing up on a ranch in Uruguay, where we were very traditional sort of gauchos, there have been two brands that my father and my stepfather would wear: Barbour and Pringle sweaters. And so they were each Scottish and English. And the explanation they might...
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