http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-35842-karen-millen-ltd/topic-rss.do Karen Millen Ltd. RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23767451-fashion-round-up.do In what must surely take shoe fetishism to a whole new level, those who worship at the altar of Christian Louboutin can now not merely wear his stilettos on their feet, but drink from them as well 2009-11-10T16:25:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23741109-get-ready-to-pounce-on-a-new-autumn-wardrobe.do 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 2009-09-07T14:56:35Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23730767-hot-or-not-karen-millen.do 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. 2009-08-11T09:59:42Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23706402-claudia-schiffer-checks-out-fashions-future-big-names.do Supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Erin O’ Connor were giving out awards at the Graduate Fashion Week show 2009-06-11T11:16:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23692894-penny-lancaster-reveals-all-at-butterfly-ball.do Penny Lancaster and Karen Millen had lots on show at the Butterfly Ball. 2009-05-15T14:39:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-23687487-still-counting-uks-cost-of-icelandic-meltdown.do 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 2009-05-08T11:33:15Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23658873-hundreds-of-jobs-under-threat-at-principles-stores.do 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 2009-03-06T14:34:16Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23656443-mosaic-deal-saves-8700-jobs-while-leaving-more-than-4000-at-risk.do <strong>Retail: </strong> 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 2009-03-02T17:02:40Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23637398-can-the-high-street-stalwarts-survive.do 2009-02-09T12:05:57Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23635158-the-great-high-street-fire-sale-but-will-there-actually-be-any-takers.do With £1bn 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... 2009-02-05T11:56:52Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23634423-hamleys-icelandic-investor-seeks-protection-as-bank-talks-fail.do <strong>Retail: </strong> 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 2009-02-04T11:52:32Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23634597-hamleys-icelandic-owner-on-brink-of-going-bust.do 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 2009-02-04T14:33:15Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23620632-mosaic-ready-to-give-shoe-firm-the-boot.do <strong>Retail: </strong> The fashion group behind the Nine West, Bertie and Pied Á Terre shoe brands has put its entire footwear empire up for sale 2009-01-15T14:31:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23608722-profit-warnings-wave-to-sweep-high-street.do <strong>Retail:</strong> 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 2008-12-29T09:22:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23587737-asos-defies-the-gloom-with-107-leap-in-sales.do <strong>Retail:</strong> Online retailer Asos is still defying the credit crunch as its young and mortgage-free customers continue to shop with abandon 2008-11-17T10:25:26Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23580516-did-westfield-pass-the-opening-day-challenge.do 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 2008-10-31T08:57:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23572490-im-a-diehard-leftie-but-my-son-is-going-to-private-school.do 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. 2008-10-14T08:11:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23562648-retail.do <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/js/image-resizer.js"></script> These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead 2008-10-01T14:40:01Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23566666-the-candy-brothers-in-bid-to-save-us-project.do 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 2008-10-08T09:28:14Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23564262-iceland-freezes-all-bank-share-trades.do <strong>Banking:</strong> 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 2008-10-06T08:26:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23563170-icy-storm-blows-through-the-high-street.do 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 2008-10-03T07:29:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23542094-yasmin-and-new-brands-help-bring-a-smile-to-house-of-fraser.do 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. 2008-08-20T10:14:27Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23482895-double-trouble-apprentice-villainesses-jenny-and-jennifer-hit-the-town-together.do 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 2008-05-07T12:00:18Z