Burberry’s Christopher Bailey proves elusive again – Editor’s Letter May 19, 2015 When the fashion retailer Burberry unveils its full-year results today, it will be unsurprising if its chief executive and chief creative officer Chris Bailey keeps a low media profile, leaving the task of answering reporters’ questions to his finance director, Carol Fairweather. Bailey himself rarely makes an appearance in front of the media to [...]
Burberry boss Christopher Bailey hails new supermodel James Corden – in pictures April 21, 2015 James Corden graced the catwalk as part of fashion brand Burberry's London in Los Angeles event last week, prompting the retailer's somewhat reclusive boss Christopher Bailey to quip: “Fashion has a new icon and his name is Corden.” The British film and TV star was performing a sketch for his CBS “The Late Late Show [...]
Burberry’s poncho “innovation and investment” drives sales as design worn by Alexa Chung and Cara Delevingne woos customers April 15, 2015 The figures Revenue at Burberry for the second half was up nine per cent on the same period the previous year to £1.4bn. Retail sales were strong, up 13 per cent to £1bn on an underlying basis with America and Europe hitting double-digit growth compensating for a continued slowdown in Asia. Licensing revenue was up [...]
Former BBC and Yahoo exec Fabiola Arredondo is joining Burberry March 11, 2015 UK fashion house Burberry yesterday appointed former BBC and Yahoo executive Fabiola Arredondo to its board. It hopes the Spanish-American will bring her digital consumer savvy to the non-executive director role and the audit, remuneration and nomination committees. Once named the most influential woman in European business, Arredondo comes to Burberry after repeatedly smashing [...]
Bank reshuffle raises issues at Burberry – Editor’s Letter March 1, 2015 Sir John Peace is widely admired in the City and until recently held positions as chair of both the emerging markets bank Standard Chartered and the fashion group Burberry. Until last week, those who expected him to give up one of those posts so he could give more time to the one he kept, had [...]
London Fashion Week 2015: The best of the collections February 25, 2015 City A.M. Bespoke fashion director Ozzy Shah gives his take on this year’s London Fashion Week. OSMAN White is a big trend I loved this show. It was an absolutely brilliant collection, one of his best ever. It was very clean and minimal, quite refreshing compared to a lot of busy, complicated shows [...]
Burberry sales grow in third quarter but slip in Hong Kong January 14, 2015 British luxury brand Burberry had a good end to 2014, with retail sales rising 15 per cent to £604m in the third quarter. The success was driven largely by strong digital growth in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, but this progress wasn’t replicated in Asia – sales fell in Hong Kong, and [...]
Stars flock to Burberry fashion show January 12, 2015 BURBERRY showcased its autumn-winter 2015 menswear collection at yesterday’s London Collections: Men, at Kensington Gardens. Among those watching from the front row were music artist Tinie Tempah, UK fashion model Jourdan Dunn and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Bailey and the jets: Burberry boss attends Elton’s wedding December 22, 2014 CHRIS Bailey, the Burberry chief executive, was a guest at Elton John’s wedding yesterday to long-term partner David Furnish. Bailey, who went to the event in Windsor with his partner, the actor Simon Woods, joined a sparkling guest-list that included the Beckhams, David Walliams, Elizabeth Hurley and Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev. Romeo Beckham recently [...]
YouTube ranking: John Lewis, Sainsbury’s, Burberry and Marks and Spencer have the best Christmas ads of 2014 December 2, 2014 It’s only the second day of December, but we've already been treated to a sneak peak of the joy ahead for the Christmas season via the medium of advertising. This year, retailers battled it out with penguins, soldiers and celebs in a bid to get the public into the festive spirit and spend their pennies- although [...]