
Eric Musgrave
Journalist at Freelance
Contributor at TheIndustry.fashion
Please go to my Instagram & LinkedIn feeds - Just_Ask_Eric_Musgrave - as I no longer post on here. I'm a fashion business journalist, specialising in menswear.
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1 week ago |
theindustry.fashion | Eric Musgrave
"We sell to 47 countries around the world and not one of those markets is showing positive growth." That off-the-record comment from a significant European menswear manufacturer neatly summed up the global economic backcloth to this week’s Pitti Uomo, the premier marketplace for classic and mainstream menswear. Once again, however, the fair in Florence proved to be the catalyst for lifting the spirits of the sector.
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1 week ago |
theindustry.fashion | Eric Musgrave
Bright sunshine and high temperatures were forecast for Florence on Tuesday. Instead visitors to the 108th edition of Pitti Uomo had grey skies and rain to contend with on the opening day. The climatic turnabout was an appropriate metaphor for the changing circumstances around American tariffs, one of the main topics of ongoing conversations among British exhibitors at the classic sector’s leading menswear show.
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2 weeks ago |
theindustry.fashion | Eric Musgrave
Noel Coward’s celebrated song “London Pride” was the unexpected soundtrack to a pulsating video presentation that kicked off the recent World Retail Congress at the Hilton on Park Lane, London. Written in 1941 to raise the spirits of Londoners during the Blitz, a typical couplet in the lyric says:London Pride means our own dear town to us,And our pride it forever will be.
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3 weeks ago |
theindustry.fashion | Eric Musgrave
This year premium menswear brand Simon Carter celebrates its 40th anniversary. The eponymous front man and driving force of the business gave up medical studies to dive into the fashion world in 1985. Here Simon Carter, Esquire reveals how Simon Carter Ltd has flourished for four decades. Do you consider yourself a designer, an entrepreneur, a company owner, or something else? I’ve always regarded myself as adequate all round, rather than excellent at one area.
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1 month ago |
theindustry.fashion | Eric Musgrave
London’s reputation as a potent international retailing destination was underlined last week as almost 1,000 senior industry figures attended the 18th edition of World Retail Congress. Back in its home base for the first time since 2012, the two-day conference covered most significant sectors, from luxury fashion to discount supermarkets.
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