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The Big Stella X Smart Works Fashion Sale at Bicester Village raises over £150,000
This year s pop-up event was bigger and better than ever
The three-week sale raised over £150,000
Credit: Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd Will it go ahead? was the question on everyone s lips in the run up to the opening of Stella X Smart Works Fashion Sale at Bicester Village. But as the high street had the official green light from the government three days prior to opening, this was arguably the most-anticipated shopping event of the year. Once the doors burst open on Thursday 15 April, it was three weeks of non-stop shopping. The result? Our pop-up store in collaboration with the incredible Smart Works, raised over £150,000 for the charity.
The £400 eco-dress dress Carrie Symonds wore to cast her vote Chloe Street
No stranger to a sustainable sartorial statement, Carrie Symonds has once again used her moment in the spotlight to platform an under-the-radar ethical clothing label.
Walking arm-in-arm with her fiancé Boris Johnson into the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster on Thursday morning to cast her vote in the elections, Symonds wore a floral midi dress from Camden-based label O Pioneers.
The Clara Contrast Dress is made from 100 per cent cotton and comes in a striking pink and green abstract Liberty print with contrasting forest green three quarter length ruffle sleeves, ruffle collar and ruffle hem. The dress, which costs £395, is now sold out, but a few sizes of the same style in other prints are still available online.
The fast rise of slow fashion – and why the dress is the surprise success story of lockdown style
A new generation of small-scale, low-waste, made-to-order brands have boomed as a result of the pandemic
2 May 2021 • 5:00am
How slow fashion became cool: Alice Early, Rene MacDonald and Johanna Sands
Credit: Phill Taylor
and Simon Bray
Johanna Sands designs the sort of breezy linen dresses in ice-cream colours that you want to wear to a party in the Tuscan hills… or a picnic on one of those balmy June evenings that make you briefly forget you’re in Britain. So not much good during a long, cold lockdown winter, then. Except that over the past six months, her brand has grown exponentially.
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