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Carrie Symonds and the rise of the Soane ranger
Carrie Symonds is said to be redecorating 10 Downing Street, with Lulu Lytle’s Soane brand as the inspiration, but are you a Soanie too?
2 March 2021 • 7:35pm
Lulu Lytle’s Soane Britain brand is reportedly a favourite of Carrie Symonds
I may not have a Zoom hotline to Downing Street, but I could have guessed that if Carrie Symonds were going to undertake a redecoration programme in the Prime Ministerial quarters, then it would be to Lulu Lytle and the aesthetic she’s honed as co-founder of design label Soane Britain that she’d turn for inspiration.
Samantha Cameron and Sir Paul Smith on why Brexit is a disaster for British fashion
British fashion brands say they are hemorrhaging European customers
Samantha Cameron at home in a Cefinn dress
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“The relationship between fashion and the government is the worst it has ever been. It’s toxic.”
Strong words from anyone, but particularly from Richard Ross – the founder of The Sock Shop and Trotters – who describes himself as a long-time admirer of Margaret Thatcher and a former Conservative voter. He, like so many others in retail, believes that fashion has been completely forgotten in the Brexit deal.
Could the Covid pandemic make fashion more sustainable? Hannah Marriott
Even the most ardent fan of elasticated waistbands would have to concede that 2020 has been an ugly year for fast fashion. The industry’s environmental issues are well known. It emits more carbon emissions than all international flight and maritime shipping combined, according to UNEP, the UN Environment Programme. The UK alone sends an estimated £140m worth, or 350,000 tonnes, of used clothing to landfill. And 2020 highlighted the human cost of over-production, with grim reports from Pakistani factories supplying clothes to Boohoo topping off a year in which garment workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam were among the first to pay the price of the pandemic as western companies refused to pay for orders.
How Carrie Symonds became the First Lady of eco style
The Prime Minister s fiancée could give us all a lesson on how to dress responsibly
15 December 2020 • 12:31pm
Carrie Symonds in a Justine Tabak dress
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Is it possible to pass the Balmoral test, made famous by
The Crown, in a rented dress? Carrie Symonds – who borrowed a blue checked dress to visit the Queen last year and who regularly re-wears her favourite pieces – certainly thinks so.
The fashion industry has rightly come under fire in recent years from animal rights and green activists for a lot more than just fur. But Symonds – who last night was named the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals s (Peta) Person of the Year – has given us all a masterclass over the last two years on how to dress in the public eye without putting a environmentally friendly foot wrong.