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• Glossier founder Emily Weiss: ‘Beauty has very little to do with looks’

  29-12-2019 14:00
  
  Glossier, the cult beauty brand, is transforming the way women use makeup. Emily Weiss, founder and ‘disruptor’, shares her vision for the cosmetics industry that’s made her start-up worth $1.2bn in five yearsHalfway down an expensive shopping street in Covent Garden, a few weeks before Christmas, two women stand outside a large glassy facade, wielding clipboards with intent. Their presence suggests the opening of an exclusive club, perhaps, or the private view for a buzzy new
  
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• Charity assisting retail workers sees 30% rise in requests for help

  29-12-2019 13:32
  
  Fashion and Textile Children’s Trust reports 60% increase in redundancy-related inquiries amid high street crisis A hardship charity once chaired by Charles Dickens has received a 30% increase in requests for help from struggling shop workers as the high street crisis bites.The Fashion and Textile Children’s Trust steps in to assist children whose parents work in the fashion industry but are struggling to make ends meet. The surge in requests for its grants in 2019, included a &ldquo
  
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• A year of growth, strong markets and trade deals, they claim. And if it all goes wrong?

  29-12-2019 08:15
  
  Brexit is going ahead, the WTO has lost its teeth and the climate crisis is worsening. But some say 2020 will be benignThe year that is just coming to an end was the nearly year. There was nearly a global recession. There was nearly a full-blown trade war between the US and China. And Britain nearly left the European Union.In the event, none of things happened and 2019 will go down in history as one of those that are soon forgotten. Unless, of course, it proves to be like 1913, one of those when
  
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