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The Memento Generation: Gen Z shoppers are returning to stores

While Gen Z might be the first digitally native generation, new research from social media platform Snapchat and Portas, the brand consultancy founded by British retail expert Mary Portas, has found that more than half of Gen Z shoppers (51 percent) prefer going in-store for the experience rather than buying something instantly online. ‘The...

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Mary Portas backs petition attempting to block Shein’s UK IPO

Retail expert Mary Portas has backed a newly launched petition calling on the UK government to block Shein’s controversial IPO filing on the London Stock Exchange. Sharing a link to the petition in her Instagram story, Portas joins a growing number of fashion and retail businesses, figures and experts in expressing concern over the possibility...

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Samuel Ross and Mary Portas recognised in King’s New Year’s Honours List

Retail consultant and broadcaster Mary Portas, British designer Samuel Ross, and beauty entrepreneur Tajinder Banwait are among the fashion and beauty names recognised in King Charles’ 2024 New Year’s Honours List. Portas, dubbed as the ‘Queen of Shops,’ who spearheaded a report to save the British high street, has been awarded an OBE for...

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Cost-of-living crisis to have more impact than Covid-19 pandemic

Curated marketplace Ankorstore reveals that 92 percent of retailers think the British high street is struggling to cope with increasing pressures as the cost-of-living crisis hits retailers hard. The new research from Ankorstore’s first Summer Retail Trend Report, supported by British retail champion Mary Portas, reveals that 74 percent of...

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Teatum Jones launches ‘Zero Waste’ initiative with Liberty fabrics

London-based Teatum Jones, which showcased at Copenhagen Fashion Week as part of the Zalando Sustainability Awardshowcase, unveiled its Re-Love | Global Womanhood 2022 collection featuring archival stock, “imperfect and forgotten” Liberty fabrics and damaged tailoring fabrics from British woollen mills. “As per our Pillar #6 ‘A Slower Approach...

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UK Government urged to adopt Shop Out to Help Out scheme to save high street

Last August the UK government launched the initiative Eat Out to Help Out Scheme in a bid drive traffic to cafes and restaurants during local lockdown. This year campaigners are calling for a similar proposal to save the ailing high street, with a scheme called Shop Out to Help Out. The campaign group Save The Street, backed by notable industry...

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Victoria Beckham to sell Harper's designer wardrobe for charity

London - British designer Victoria Beckham is selling 25 of her daughter's designer outfits to raise funds for the Save the Children charity. The items, which include Chloe dresses, Charlotte Olympia kitty flats and Marc Jacobs shoes, will be donated to Mary Portas Living & Giving store in Primrose Hill, as part of the Fashion Saves Lives sale....