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by  Clare Howells

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APRIL 2013
ISSUE 39
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Sheer genius
The best of this season’s
9’til 5
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Accessories for
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SHOW PREVIEW
The British Craft Trade Fair
Hot rocks
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Key footwear trends
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CONTENTS
Contents
REGULARS 37
9 Editor’s letter
What to look out for this issue
10 Industry news
Get the low-down on the latest
happenings in accessories retail
16 On with the show
The latest trade show news, dates
and developments
18 Competition
Win a VIP mini-break at The
British Craft Trade Fair in
picturesque Harrogate
19 Competition
Win products worth £500 RRP
19 PROFILES
courtesy of Belle & Flo
37 Chain reaction
20 Brand spanking new
Stephen Thurlow explains how the three
The hottest new products to hit generation family business Alexander
the market Thurlow & Co has come full circle
90 All the answers 47 Drawn together
Our industry experts answer your Nicky Haynes, Managing Director of
retail queries accessories label Nicky James, talks about
the brand’s vision of combining playful
illustration and fashion design
69 A novel idea
Bagabook’s founder Susan Doha
recounts the speedy growth of her label
and reveals why she believes that it will
turn into a global success
82 The talk of the town
Rhian Evans invites us into her
Pontyplun boutique, The House in Town
98 98 Behind the scenery
20
Taisir Gibreel reveals the inspiration
behind her distinctively vivid silk scarves
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FEATURES
76
34 Insurance solutions 76 It’s a hold up
Brokers T H March address queries and Hot hosiery styles for 2013 and beyond
concerns about insurance
79 Right as rain
41 A step forward Stay prepared for the unpredictable
The fresh women’s footwear styles to suit British weather with these stylish rainy
any occasion day solutions
51 Rock stars 85 Implementing EPoS
The key jewellery trends of the year from David Mackley offers tips on how to go
the perspective of industry experts about buying a modern retail system
63 A man for all seasons 88 Nordic charm
All of the essential men’s extras, from Embrace the zeitgeist for all things
cufflinks to luggage Scandinavian with a selection of
minimalist-chic products chosen by
72 Working girl Annie Cannock
Office-appropriate accessories for the
fashion-forward female 93 Get it right
CEO of ACID, Dids MacDonald,
88
discusses growth through innovation
SHOWS
27 Hard craft
79
Names to watch out for at the British
Craft Trade Fair
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EDITOR’S LETTER
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MANAGING EDITOR
Georgina Cassels [phone]
By the time you read Fair. Now in its 37th year, the exhibition is
EDITOR
this, spring will have evidence of the incredible craft talent on
Laura Sutherland
[phone] truly arrived. The light our shores, from crochet and embroidery to
[email protected] nights have come digital printing and silver-smithery. Check
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT in, the frost is gone, out the fair preview, Hard craft, on page 27
Annie Cannock and colour is back in to find out more about the event, and go
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all of our wardrobes! to page 18 to find out how you could win a
SALES MANAGER
However, while we’re VIP weekend at the show in Harrogate.
Mark White [phone]
enjoying the pastels and dreamy fabrics As well as the usual features, profile
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that the season brings, wholesalers and interviews and latest news, there’s a feature
SALES EXECUTIVE
Claire Rogers [phone] retailers have been busy planning for on women’s workwear accessories, and
[email protected] autumn/winter 2013. With the massive a look at Scandinavian-chic products to
PRODUCTION MANAGER success of Spring Fair, Top Drawer, Pure update your window display. For April
Scott Brothwell [phone] London, Moda and Scoop International, 2013, our competition prize is courtesy of
[email protected]
it’s clear that everyone in the industry has fashion-forward jewellery brand, Belle &
DEPUTY PRODUCTION MANAGER
a positive outlook on the economic future Flo (page 19).
Sarah Barnes [phone] of the fashion market. In this issue, Attire
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Accessories aims to showcase this optimism
SENIOR DESIGNER
Vicky O’Connor with a bumper set of features tailored to
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Samantha Lock, Rebecca Clarke, both established and fledgling. We have Laura Sutherland
Charlotte Brown trends in best-seller areas, such as shoes EEddiittoorr
WEB DEVELOPMENT MANAGER and jewellery covered, as well as more niche
Stuart Weatherley accessories products, such as hosiery, men’s
Shoe trends,
SUBSCRIPTIONS extras and wet weather wear.
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Industry news
FIND OUT WHAT’S NEW IN FASHION
ACCESSORIES RETAILING
RED OR DEAD LOVES GEORGE COX FOOTWEAR
Initially selling vintage clothing from a stall on Camden Market, the
COLLABORATION ANNOUNCED couple soon moved onto producing their fi rst footwear and clothing
British fashion brand Red or Dead has collaborated with the creator ranges. Th e label gained a strong reputation in the industry, thanks
of the brothel creeper, George Cox to create a small collection of to classics such as the Watch shoe of 1987 and 1989’s Space Baby
men’s creepers, available exclusively at the high street shoe store, line. Red or Dead has won the British Fashion Council’s Streetstyle
schuh. Limited to 24 pairs per style, the line is entirely hand-made at Designer of the Year award three times, and is now synonymous with
the George Cox factory in Northampton. the best of British design.
George Cox began making shoes in 1906 and established a With youth culture and street sensibility at the heart of everything
reputation for original design and high production values with the they do, and a pride in creating something diff erent from the
label’s creation of the brothel creeper. Originally a staple of every mass-produced uniformity of the high street, the two companies
Teddy Boy’s wardrobe, George Cox creepers were picked up again have a lot in common, so working together on a capsule selection of
in the late ’70s by Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood for footwear makes an ideal collaboration. Th e collection includes tassel
their shop, Let it Rock. Th e creepers quickly became the go-to shoe loafer, ghillie and desert chukka styles.
for the emerging British Punk scene, worn by everyone from Th e Sex Th e Mr Cox collection is available exclusively from schuh’s
Pistols to Th e Clash. fl agship store in Oxford Street, London and online at
Wayne & Gerardine Hemingway founded Red or Dead in 1982. www.schuh.co.uk from April 2013.
Tamaris launches PrimaLoft NICOLA SEXTON
technology collection for BRANCHES OUT INTO
autumn/winter 2013 WHOLESALE
PrimaLoft Boutique owner Nicola Sexton is launching
technology will her fi rst wholesale collection in 2013 due to
make its fashion the popularity of her own footwear label.
footwear début in Nicola explains: “When I fi rst opened my
Tamaris’ autumn/ shoe shop in April 2010, I sourced Italian
winter 2013 line, and Spanish designers unknown in the UK
ensuring that market. However, I felt that with the age range
ladies can have of my clients being so varied, it was necessary
wonderfully warm to source a collection of very wearable shoes
feet, despite for everyday use. I found my manufacturer in
the harsh Italy, and the design process began. Th e brand
winter weather. quickly becoming my best-selling collection.
Originating “My venture into wholesale was completely by accident. I had an agent in
in the sport the store one day showing me a jewellery collection, and after admiring my
and functional shoes, asked if she could take them ‘on the road’. I had samples made, and
clothing segment, off she went with the spring/summer 2013 line. Th e response she received
Tamaris is now making use of the fantastic properties echoed that of my customers, which was all the encouragement I needed to
of this intermediate lining in its mainline collection of pursue wholesale supplying seriously.”
shoes and boots, making the on-trend brand a pioneer Rounding off a whirlwind year, which also saw her become a fi nalist in
in the sector. PrimaLoft is known to keep feet warmer Drapers’ Footwear and Accessories Awards 2012 in the Best Footwear Off er
than real lambskin, as well as being water-repellent in an Independent category, Nicola gave a presentation on her journey from
and breathable, which is ideal for the unpredictable retailer to wholesaler at Pure London in February.
British weather. For more information on Nicola Sexton’s wholesale line or shoe boutique,
To fi nd out more about the new Tamaris range, visit visit www.nicolasexton.co.uk.
the website www.tamaris.eu.
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