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.
Arts missing out on tens of millions from expanded EU fund, say campaigners.
The UK's new trading relationship with the European Union (EU) might be less than two weeks old but some businesses - and their European customers - are already struggling to adjust to the new trading landscape.
UK clothing and lifestyle brand Joules is terminating some of its wholesale agreements with stockists in the European Union. Drapers explores who else is following suit, and what the implications are.
However, there is another threat to music in Britain, and it’s not the virus. It is the government. One music campaigner put it to me: “The British government has given the creative industries of the United Kingdom a No Deal Brexit. It is simply killing us.”
Close to 59 per cent fashion brands have said that Brexit has impacted their business since the end of the transition, as per a recent report. About 25 per cent of the brands surveyed said they have considered relocating all or part of their businesses and 91 per cent of them want a visa that allows creative access to EU countries cheaply and quickly.
Cult sustainable labels like Fruity Booty are up against insane levels of paperwork and shipping delays.
"The post-Brexit trade agreement is a catastrophe for the British fashion industry and it could kill 'Made in Britain.'"
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.
Three years on, Brexit is still impacting both U.K. and Europe-based brands in luxury fashion. Niche and young brands, in particular, are having a hard time with the fallout, though many have secured manageable workarounds.
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).
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.
Fashion company boss says only way for many firms to survive as costs soar is to open bases in France, costing vital UK jobs.
It may have been over three years since the UK formally left the European Union but UK brands and retailers continue to face a slew of challenges in navigating post-Brexit trade. Drapers identifies the persistent pain points and how they are being managed.
Brexit… out of fashion in Somerset
04/05/2021
It would be fair to say that businesses in Somerset are now really starting to feel the effects of Brexit and our new trade deals with the EU and the rest of the world. From all the businesses I have spoken to so far the effects have ranged from bureaucratic nightmares with unnecessary paperwork and extra costs to complete shutdowns of exports.
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.
British Fashion Council says no-deal Brexit could cost fashion industry up to £900m in one year
02/09/2019
'We urge the government to seek a deal with the EU that would guarantee the healthy and steady growth of the fashion industry'
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
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.
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 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.
Fashion in post-Brexit Britain
17/05/2021
A swift walk through the corridors of Westminster will highlight that for many working in politics, the fashion and textiles industry is not a top priority for them.
Leading figures from the sector are calling for frictionless work travel for British creatives in the bloc.
The fashion industry has warned it faces severe talent shortages after a government advisory body rejected its plea to offer more visas to foreign workers.