On the same day I meet the fashion designer and former darling of the London fashion scene Mary Katrantzou, the UK-based label The Vampire’s Wife (brainchild of Susie Cave) announces that it will cease trading with immediate effect.
News of the closure, the result of “upheaval in the wholesale market”, reaches fashion editors and fans of the brand’s floral-print cocktail gowns less than a week after the Serbian designer Roksanda Ilincic announced that her namesake label had been sold to a new brand development platform to save it from administration and less than a year after the Scottish designer Christopher Kane was forced to shutter his business for good.
More small-scale fashion businesses are likely to follow suit. Pained by poor sales, tax complexities enforced
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