ITV News Europe Editor James Mates visited Greece, where traders and businesses tell him that cost and paperwork is making them turn to other countries to do business.
Fashion Icon Katharine Hamnett Pauses EU Sales Due To "Catastrophic" Post-Brexit Paperwork
25/02/2021
Designer Katharine Hamnett has warned that UK fashion businesses are already closing as a result of post-Brexit paperwork, and that she herself has been forced to pause sales to the bloc.
50 days on: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal
23/02/2021
Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.
Ahead of the first post-Brexit London Fashion Week, designers and retailers including Richard Quinn, Bethany Williams, and Harry Fisher lay bare its effects on their labels
"The post-Brexit trade agreement is a catastrophe for the British fashion industry and it could kill 'Made in Britain.'"
British Fashion Council CEO Caroline Rush on the ‘huge challenges’ Brexit has posed to the industry
19/02/2021
Caroline Rush today told of the “challenges” Brexit and the pandemic had posed for her industry as London Fashion Week got under way.
London's five-day digital fashion week begins today against a backdrop of anxiety about cost of doing business with the European Union after Brexit.
Cult sustainable labels like Fruity Booty are up against insane levels of paperwork and shipping delays.
Fashion company boss says only way for many firms to survive as costs soar is to open bases in France, costing vital UK jobs.
Shoppers have reportedly faced delays and extra fees of up to £5 on fashion items shipped from the EU, as Brexit continues to cause delivery issues.
The fashion chain said the expected Brexit bill comes as it faces extra duty and shipping costs following the end of year agreement.
Fashion firm Ted Baker has posted a 47% revenue fall for the final quarter, and warned that it assumes UK stores will remain closed until the end of May.
Brexit uncertainty affected a large proportion of UK textile and apparel firms, both upstream and downstream—over 60 per cent of firms in both manufacturers and lead firms’ groups, according to researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE).
Fashion is fast and fleeting. That’s the point. Designers are lucky if they get a 10-year catwalk run. Now some are wondering if the industry itself will get another 10 years. The business is “living through hell,” says Vetements chief executive Guram Gvasalia.
Brands in Europe and the UK are working out how to sell on both sides of the Channel despite lots of new red tape and costs.
Fashion counts costs of Brexit arrangements
03/02/2021
Uncommonly exposed to red tape and restrictions across the English Channel, the UK’s £35 billion fashion and textile industry is feeling the effects of its situation.
Fashion Roundtable Open Letter
02/02/2021
The UK fashion industry is facing a number of critical issues, which without urgent attention will jeopardise the immediate and long term future of the sector.
In a letter to the UK Prime Minister signed by 400 leaders of the fashion industry, fears of “decimation of the fashion industry by the Brexit trade deal” are expressed.
The UK fashion industry is calling on the government to take action as it faces “decimation” as a result of the hurdles of red tape and travel restrictions brought in by the post-Brexit trade agreement with the EU.
Leading figures from the sector are calling for frictionless work travel for British creatives in the bloc.
London-based think tank Fashion Roundtable have written an open letter to call on the UK Government to offer further support in dealing with issues which have arisen due to Brexit.
Barry Hemmings is not a moaner, a pessimist or a quitter but he is, like so many hundreds of thousands of others, ‘hacked off’ by Brexit and the damage it is doing to his business.
Those expecting the deal meant trade could carry on in the same friction-free, tariff-free manner as before were in for something of a shock on 1 January 2021 when shipments were stuck at borders due to incorrect paperwork.
Samantha Cameron tells Emma Barnett about the impact Brexit is having on her business [2 mins]
28/01/2021
Samantha Cameron tells Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about the impact Brexit is having on her fashion business.