On a beautiful, sunny London day this week, I made my way down to Clapham to meet up with Stuart Machin, Managing Director, Food, M&S. The venue is the newly renovated M&S store and he is giving me a tour to...

Earlier this month, Levi’s filed the paperwork for an initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange. If the IPO gets away, it will be the second time the 165-year-old behemoth – known the world over for its...

In my teens growing up in apartheid South Africa, everything was bound up in politics and the answer for me lay in going to work on the land on a socialist kibbutz, which I did. My biggest regret was not keeping my set...

I was looking at a photograph of myself when I was 18 and at the beginning of my gap year (which trust me, was a really long time ago!). What struck me was the pair of denim jeans I was wearing: Levi 501’s that had...

The menswear fashion shows are all but over and once again, they are showing that the barriers between the genders are continuing to dissolve, and cultural identities are becoming much more fluid. A recent report on...

In 2000, I hosted an event called 'Inventing Retail.com'. It was right at the start of the dot-com bubble and the panel was made up of a collection of pioneers in the ecommerce world, including Keith Basnett and Ernst...

Over two decades’ worth of annual trips to New York City, I've had a good chance to see how the city has changed over the years - even better than locals, I think, who might not notice the gradual changes from day to...

‘See now, buy now’: a topic that has been fervently brewing for the last few seasons, it feels like we are reaching a tipping point. Certainly, the very nature and purpose of Fashion Week is entirely up for...

I have been on my annual research trip looking at stores, brands and new concepts on the West Coast. It's nearly time for me to come home and I almost arrived back in the UK empty-handed – until the 11th hour: all...