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Investment vs High Street: The Designer Dresses Worth the Splurge in 2026

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Not every dress needs to be an investment, and not every trend deserves your money. The smartest shoppers in 2026 mix high-street pieces for the fleeting trends with a few carefully chosen designer buys for the things they’ll wear for years. The question is knowing which is which. Here’s how to decide where the splurge is justified.

Spend on the things you’ll keep

The case for a designer dress rests on cost-per-wear. A £500 dress you wear fifty times works out cheaper than a £40 dress you wear twice. So the pieces worth investing in are the ones with staying power:

I Dare You to Scroll Through This Colourful Shopping Edit Without Smiling

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:37:22 +0000

According to MATCHESFASHION’s spring/summer 2021 report, the joyful every day is set to be a key fashion theme for the coming year, and after a long year of lockdown, this is exactly what we need right now. “If there is one thing that has made me smile, it has been seeing bright bursts of colour on Zoom calls,” explains Fashion and Buying Director Natalie Kingham. “Many designers worked with a bold palette for spring, including some brilliant day dresses by Valentino, which will translate well however you want to wear them. We also saw bright colour via tie-dye at the Elder Statesman and even the humble Ugg was updated by Molly Goddard in rich green, red, and orange.”

Lockdown sends online shopping sales soaring by record 167% in February

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:42:20 +0000

Online retail sales soared to a new record high in February – but it failed to make up for another dire month for shops as they remained closed during lockdown.

The latest BDO high street sales tracker revealed combined in-store and online like-for-like sales across the UK fell 3.1% in February in the second worst month since last August.

However strong online demand for fashion and homewares helped soften the blow as swathes of the high street remained shut – sending internet sales surging by a record 167.3%.

After Topshop owner Arcadia’s demise, what now for UK clothes shopping? | Business

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:52:04 +0000

Sir Philip Green’s fashion empire Arcadia is no more, with its famous brands, including Topshop, carved up by online retailers leaving behind a ghost chain of 500 shops.

The sale to Boohoo of its last three high street names – Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton – was confirmed this week. It completed the dismantling of Arcadia, which under Green’s ownership was the last vestige of the Burton Group built by 20th century retail trailblazer Sir Montague Burton.