22-05-2018 
More Store Closures Announced by M&S – Is It the End for Traditional Retail?
The long-established British retailer Marks & Spencer has announced further plans to close more than 100 stores by 2022 as part of a “radical...
01-05-2018
Savage X Fenty: The Inside Scoop On Rihanna’s Underwear Line
Barbadian pop queen Rihanna has made her mark in the world of fashion over recent years in one way or another – whether it be parading...
17-04-2018
reGAIN App Aims to Revolutionize Fashion Recycling
A much-needed fashion recycling incentive courtesy of the reGAIN app… Launching today, 17th April 2018, is the first UK app to tackle the...
11-04-2018
Best Dressed Window: Less is More
We take a look at high-end brands and how keeping it simple is key to their spring window displays… Italians aren’t shy when it comes to...
04-04-2018
Pop Goes the High Street
By Rebecca Walker, senior associate, and Helen Wheddon, partner, at Stevens & Bolton LLP 2018 has not exactly got off to a flying start for...
23-03-2018
ASOS.com Score a Hat Trick at The Retail Week Awards
Fashion retailers ASOS.com, Missguided, MatchesFashion.com, Gymshark and Shop Direct all scooped trophies at the Retail Week Awards sponsored by...
22-03-2018
Westfield to Claim ‘Largest Shopping Centre in Europe’ Title
It’s not all doom and gloom for the UK retail sector as Westfield London continues to invest and expand its retail, restaurant and leisure...
20-03-2018
Shop Via Instagram…Now You Can
From today, Tuesday 20 March, Instagram has launched Shopping in the UK, which allows businesses to tag products in their organic posts and for...
13-03-2018
Retail Can Work – The Rise of the Independent
As multiple stores like New Look, Maplin and Toys ‘R’ Us become the latest retail casualties on the high street the latest statistics reveal an...
01-03-2018
Blame the Weather – In Retail You Can
In retail there are so many factors that can affect footfall and sales, along with the fundamentals, such as offering a positive in-store...
19-02-2018
Sir Philip Green in Talks to Sell Arcadia Group
What a difference a decade makes, it wasn’t so long ago that high street giant Top Shop, part of Arcadia Group, was excelling in sales and...
14-02-2018
The Psychology of Shopping on the High Street
Once upon a time shops were relatively simple enterprises. Now, all sorts of methodology is implemented when it comes to trying to attract customers...
06-02-2018
Fashion Enter and William Gee Team Up
FashionCapital’s sister company, Fashion Enter, an award-winning social enterprise within the fashion and textiles industry based in London, has...
05-02-2018
Deal or No Deal – UK Retailers Best and Worst Brexit Outcomes
Alison Conley, Head of Retail & Consumer at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, a firm of chartered accountants, tax and business advisers, comments on how...
29-01-2018
Best Dressed Window: Moorer’s ‘Peep Show’ at the London YKK Showroom
Eelko Moorer’s “Peep Show: Vessels” is the first of the 2018 window displays at the YKK London Showroom, featuring a range of objects intended...
11-01-2018
Fashion Retail Needs A Revolution
While British clothing sales grew by 4.1 per cent in December 2017 many retailers reported on ‘disappointing’ figures across the past month. A...
02-01-2018
Fashion Enter Factory Featured on Channel 4
Our Fashion Enter Factory based in Haringey, North London, recently featured in the Channel 4 production: ‘What Britain Bought in 2017’…...
21-12-2017
What Can the Retail Sector Expect in 2018?
Andrew Westbrook, RSM’s Head of Retail, shares his 2018 predictions for the UK retail market… The resurgence of bricks and mortar We predict...
19-12-2017
5 Top Christmas Windows – London 2017
“Sitting in a lecture, I’d heard that Salvador Dali had designed windows. So had Andy Warhol. Now I understood why. These windows were art,...
05-12-2017
POP-TASTIC: THE NEW RETAIL ZEITGEIST
The zeitgeist is what happens when disparate phenomena decide to get together when no-one is looking. Capturing it makes it seem like you were in on...
27-11-2017
Designer Brand Backlash on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Sustainable fashion brand Tom Cridland is one of several designers to turn his back on heavy discounting during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2017....
21-11-2017
ASOS.com Makes Market Share History
ASOS.com the 17-year-old online, fashion retailer has been snapping at the financial heels of M&S for several months but last Friday (17th...
01-11-2017
FC Interview: Rachael Proud – Creative Director of Matchesfashion.com
Rachael Proud worked her way through the ranks at Topshop before the plum-role of Design Director for Christopher Kane landed in her lap. Several...
18-07-2017
4 Plus Size Models that Revolutionized the Fashion Industry
There might still be a long way to go before plus-size models can simply be called “models” without the overweight stigma attached to the...
