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One is Britain’s grandest luxury name, the other the textile designer who dressed bohemian 1960s London in her prints and has a place in art history as David Hockney’s favourite muse.
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who → dress → muse
The Burberry designer Daniel Lee has always loved Birtwell’s prints.
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designer → love → prints
When the two met this spring, he fell for “her energy, and her zest for life”, and a one-off Burberry-meets-Birtwell collection that closed London fashion week was born.
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that → meet → London
Burberry’s calling card is a graphic check; Birtwell is all blowsy doodled florals and psychedelic snaking vines.
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Birtwell → doodle → florals
“The check is so dominant and so brilliant that at first I thought, what can I do here?” Birtwell said before the show.
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Birtwell → think → show
She hand-painted a less regimented version, which Lee loved.
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Lee → paint → which
“She made the check more human.
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check → make → ?
If you are buying a luxury product it’s not a necessity, it’s an emotional purchase, so it needs to feel human.”
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it → buy → product
A doodle of round, Smartie-bright faces from her archive, drawn 20 years ago but never produced, became another print of the season.
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doodle → draw → season
The mood of the show, held around the corner from Burberry HQ at Chelsea School of Art, was buoyant: charming prints, soft silhouettes, and the eclectic guest list that is as much a Burberry signature as the check itself: Fiona Shaw and Djed Spence on the front row, with Central Cee making a cameo on the catwalk.
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Cee → hold → catwalk
Burberry is bouncing back from its crisis years, steered by its CEO, Joshua Schulman, and designer, Daniel Lee.
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Burberry → bounce → CEO
This summer, the brand reported its first revenue growth in three years, as retail sales rose 5% year-on-year in the second quarter.
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sales → report → quarter
Schulman’s strategy is offering “value for money in a luxury context”, which translates as pivoting from an ill-fated attempt to sell Burberry handbags at Hermès prices to more realistic price tags.
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which → offer → tags
Lee has brought a youthful, generation-Z inflection to the Britishness that is Burberry’s calling card.
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that → bring → Britishness
A successful element of its turnaround has been Burberry zeroing in on the outerwear market, where Burberry has bona fides to best every other name.
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Burberry → zero → name
British heritage is a trump card when it comes to coats, and the appeal of the Burberry name reaches from arctic explorers to football fans.
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appeal → come → fans
For this summer collection, trenches came in slinky silk taffeta, with puffball hems and ruched collars; one model carried an embroidered umbrella, against summer showers.
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model → come → showers
To amplify its London fashion week message, Burberry is staging a small display in an upstairs gallery of the V&A museum in South Kensington, which will be open to the public until 3 January.
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which → amplify → January
The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon includes a military overcoat worn by a lieutenant colonel in the British army in 1939, designer Hardy Amies’ own Burberry trench, as well as metallic leather and gold snakeskin runway trenches from recent catwalk shows.
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Trench → craft → shows
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