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Get ready to pounce on a new autumn wardrobe

07.09.09

Fashionistas — on your marks! The new autumn stock is about to hit the shops and if you want to snap up the season’s key, you’d better be ready to pounce... more

Hot or not: Karen Millen

11.08.09

To its customers, taken in by the high prices and elegant shop design, Karen Millen is one of the most aspirational places on the high street. ... more

Claudia Schiffer checks out fashion’s future big names

11.06.09

Supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Erin O’ Connor were giving out awards at the Graduate Fashion Week show... more

Penny Lancaster reveals all at Butterfly Ball

15.05.09

Penny Lancaster and Karen Millen had lots on show at the Butterfly Ball.... more

Still counting UK's cost of Icelandic meltdown

08.05.09

A hint of calm, but certainly not normality, is returning to the busted Nordic economy thanks to the International Monetary Fund's $10 billion bailout. But for many UK investors the story isn't over... more

Hundreds of jobs under threat at Principles stores

06.03.09

Hundreds of London jobs at collapsed womenswear chain Principles were under threat as rival firm Debenhams was poised to buy its stock - but not its stores... more

Mosaic deal saves 8,700 jobs, while leaving more than 4,000 at risk

02.03.09

Retail: Icelandic bank Kaupthing put Britain's Mosaic Fashions into administration and immediately announced a deal to buy back some of its brands, saving around 8,700 jobs while leaving about 4,170 at risk... more

Can the high street stalwarts survive?

09.02.09

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The great High Street fire sale but will there actually be any takers?

05.02.09

With Ł1bn debts, retail empire Baugur is set to be broken up and, says its founder, end up in the ‘hands of British vultures’. It seems he couldn’t be more wrong...... more

Hamleys Icelandic investor seeks protection as bank talks fail

04.02.09

Retail: Icelandic holding company Baugur, which has major retail interests in Britain including stakes in House of Fraser and Hamleys has applied for court protection after restructuring talks with its lenders failed... more

Hamleys' Icelandic owner on brink of going bust

04.02.09

The future of Hamleys, Britain's biggest toy shop and a major London tourist attraction, was thrown into doubt after its owner collapsed into administration ... more

Mosaic ready to give shoe firm the boot

15.01.09

Retail: The fashion group behind the Nine West, Bertie and Pied Á Terre shoe brands has put its entire footwear empire up for sale... more

Profit warnings wave to sweep High Street

29.12.08

Retail: The City is bracing itself for the biggest wave of retail profit warnings in recent history, with stalwarts including Marks & Spencer being tipped to add to the sector's misery... more

Asos defies the gloom with 107% leap in sales

17.11.08

Retail: Online retailer Asos is still defying the credit crunch as its young and mortgage-free customers continue to shop with abandon... more

Did Westfield pass the opening day challenge?

31.10.08

As Europe’s biggest shopping mall is opened by the Mayor in west London, we send five of our specialist writers to join the masses to discover what kind of retail experience it has to offer... more

I'm a diehard Leftie but my son is going to private school

14.10.08

If England, according to Oscar Wilde, is the native land of the hypocrite, then the contortions achieved by former Left-wing supporters of state education in order to justify sending their kids to private schools have to be some of that land's most curious rituals. When I was a child in London my parents schooled me privately to begin with, and then when the inherited dosh ran out sent me to a state school. It was at that point that my mother began to trumpet her great belief in comprehensives. Even aged 13, I couldn't help seeing hypocrisy in this. ... more

Retail

08.10.08

These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead ... more

The Candy brothers in bid to save US project

08.10.08

UK Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy and their Icelandic banking partners locked in last-ditch talks to save an ambitious development in the US... more

Iceland freezes all bank share trades

06.10.08

Banking: Trading in the shares of all Iceland’s banks and financial institutions was suspended on the Nordic Exchange ahead of a long-awaited bailout plan from the government... more

Icy storm blows through the High Street

03.10.08

With holdings in companies from Iceland to Hamleys, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has forged an empire here. But the Reykjavik entrepreneur could fall victim to the credit crunch... more

Yasmin and new brands help bring a smile to House of Fraser

20.08.08

Department stores group House of Fraser has reported steady sales growth as model Yasmin Le Bon helped it buck the downturn on the High Street.... more

Double trouble: Apprentice villainesses Jenny and Jennifer hit the town together

07.05.08

They appear to be allied in the hit reality television show, but it appears that Apprentice villainesses Jenny Celerier and Jennifer Maguire's strategic partnership goes beyond the boardroom. The Apprentice contestants were seen out partying at London club Funky Buddha last night, and emerged looking well...fairly sober... more