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Marks & Spencer commits to protecting price of school uniform

Marks & Spencer has announced that it is going to continue protecting the price of its school uniform, a decision that has now extended into its third year after initially being introduced in 2021. The revelation comes ahead of Back-to-School season, for which the retailer said it will be offering an additional 20 percent off school uniform for...

Fashion

Indebted Alitalia moves to change staff uniforms

Italian carrier Alitalia, grappling with debt and fighting to compete with low-cost rivals, announced Wednesday it has hired the Alberta Ferretti fashion house to redesign its staff uniforms, 18 months after new outfits were unveiled. The "special collection" will combine "elegance and convenience to ensure that all personnel, both ground and...

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Why do fashion designers dress themselves in uniforms?

What does Giorgio Armani have in common with Steve Jobs, Karl Lagerfeld with Mark Zuckerberg, Anna Wintour with Mother Teresa? They are associated with wearing an instantly recognizable daily uniform. Jobs and Zuckerberg might be said to dress for the technology industry, Mother Teresa had little time for trends, but fashion designers and...

Design

Aldi launches UK's cheapest uniform collection

School uniforms are big business for retailers in the weeks before the school calendar resumes. Now value chain Aldi has jumped on the uniform bandwagon, offering the UK's cheapest back to school fashion available, starting at just 4 pounds. The new collection features a round neck sweater, two plain polo shirts and trousers or skirt and is part...

Fashion

Retailers battle for back to school uniform

Supermarkets have been flexing their muscles to gain ground from clothing retailers in the fiercely contested battle for the back-to-school uniform market. Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda have been fighting for bigger shares of the uniform market left wide open by the demise of Woolworths, which operated the Ladybird brand, and troubles at Adams,...

Fashion

Fashion in uniform

Designing uniforms for restaurant employees and airline crews is old hat. Bruce Oldfield did it for McDonald’s staff last year; 40 years ago Emilio Pucci created a uniform for Braniff International Airways, as Julien Macdonald did, more recently, for British Airways. Hotels, too have followed suit, and London's Hempel Hotel, the original...