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Laura Ashley’s new CEO has vowed to ‘bring Laura back’ and revive its ‘timeless’ designs after taking over the struggling British fashion brand.  The high street designer, favoured by Princess Diana in the 1980s, was taken over by Katharine Poulter last month after the company announced losses and a 10.4 per cent fall in sales.  Its once … Read more

The fashion and homewear brand Laura Ashley started at the Welsh designer’s Pilmlico attic flat in central London in 1953. Having undertaken some quilting work with her local Women’s Institute, Ashley started sewing headscarves, napkins, table mats and tea-towels on her kitchen table. Her husband Bernard would print them using his own machine and the … Read more