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• Pub gigs and a Shoreditch mural: can Mulberry appeal to a younger crowd?

  29-06-2019 09:00
  Luxury fashion brand bids to reverse flagging fortunes with booze and a band. But is it trying too hard?The shout-out was via a technicolour mural spray-painted onto a wall in Shoreditch, the hip district of east London, with tickets for the intimate gig released on the mobile ticketing app Dice.So on a muggy Tuesday night the Betsey Trotwood, a traditional boozer in the capital’s fashionable Clerkenwell district, is filled with 150 millennials and gen Zers knocking back free pints before
  
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• What's in your kids' makeup? Asbestos recalls prompt regulation questions

  29-06-2019 08:00
  Health advocates and the FDA say the extent of contamination of the cancer-causing material in cosmetics remains unknown, with no laws requiring testingClaire’s Stores Inc, an international accessories and cosmetics retailer tailored to kids and teens, has a motto: “We make memories”.But its customers may have been alarmed after asbestos, a cancer-causing material that can stay in the body for many years, was found in several of Claire’s makeup products in the US. Related
  
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