Blog Entries by Lou Stoppard from 12/2011

On the High Street - Mary Portas: Friend or Foe?

| Posted 12.15.2011 | UK

Mary Portas may have many talents, including a gravity-defying Lego-man bob, but I'm pretty sure that no matter how much effort she puts into revamping the New Look changing rooms, she's not going to be able to singlehandedly waft away the recession and solve poverty and unemployment - because that's what it's really going to take to help the high street.

On the High Street: The Rise of Designer Collaborations.

| Posted 12.29.2011 | UK Style

It's been the year of hysteria-inducing designer/high street collaborations. Louise Gray's beautiful range for Brora was an indisputable highpoint. Similarly Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla was top of the Christmas list. But other unions warrant less praise.