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A manufacturer of sailing wear, the company was wound up in 1981.
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2003-
The menswear line of label John Galliano began in 2003 with a small collection for Spring Summer 2004. Designer John Galliano had previously designed and shown menswear between 1984-1986, often alongside his women's wear. Galliano was creative director for the label until 2011 when owner Dior replaced him with Bill Gaytten.
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1966-
Italian tennis player Sergio Tacchini established his sportswear business in the mid-1960s. Initially the label concentrated on tennis wear to bring colour and fashion to the sport, later expanding into other sports and then leisurewear. Outside of sports the label was adopted by British Casuals and by Black American Hip Hop artists. The company was sold in 2008 and again in 2019.
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1907-present
Youth organisation begun by Robert Baden-Powell. In 1908 he named it the Boy Scouts Association. He designed the Scouts uniform, which remained virtually unchanged until the 1960s, and the original badge design of an arrowhead or fleur-de-lis emblem.
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1982-
British retailer Next was founded by the Leeds-based menswear company Hepworths (1864–1986). Responding to changes in UK clothing retailing in the early 1980s, the Hepworths Group purchased Kendall & Sons, a family-owned womenswear business, in 1981. The following year they recruited retail entrepreneur George Davies (b. 1941), alongside designers Conran Associates (design director John Stephenson came up with the name ‘Next’) to lead the project to transform Kendall & Sons into a new women’s fashion chain. The label was aimed at fashion-conscious women aged between twenty- four and forty-four; by May 1982, eighty stores had been completely redesigned, fitted out and stocked as Next. The label was hugely successful and in 1983 Davies was given the responsibility of the 350 Hepworths menswear stores, quickly deciding to replace them with a menswear version of Next. Next for Men launched in August 1984, the last Hepworths store closed in 1985, and the parent company of J. Hepworth & Son changed its name to Next plc in 1986. Next launched their mail-order business Next Directory in 1988 and in 2015 opened their 546th store.Sources: Hepworth Mercury; George Davies, What Next? (London: Century, 1989); nextplc.co.uk.
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1914-
The company was founded in Sydney, Australia by Alexander MacRae. He began by manufacturing knitted underwear and socks using the brand name 'Fortitude'. The company made their first swimwear range in 1927 with a racer-back design and began using the name 'Speedo' in 1928. Speedo swimsuits were first worn by competitive swimmers at the Olympic Games in 1932. Since the 1930s Speedo has made swimwear for racing as well as leisurewear and has pioneered technical advances in materials and designs which have often been controversial. The company was acquired by the Pentland Group in 1991.
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nd [1962-1998]
The company was founded in the early 1960s by Tom and June Easterford (they had met in 1955 working at the Lee Cooper factory in Harold Wood, Essex) but they left and began another business soon afterwards. By the 1970s Falmer Jeans were described as Britain's number one maker of jeans. They went into administration in 1998 and the brand name was purchased by Matalan.
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1985-
Originally from Canada, Paul Harnden moved to London in 1985 to study shoemaking. He trained at Cordwainers and John Lobb before establishing his own business and began designing clothing in the early 2000s.