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• ‘There is lots of talk and no action’: designer Amy Powney’s quest to make sustainability more than just a buzzword

  04-03-2023 11:00
  
  In the documentary Fashion Reimagined, the founder of luxury brand Mother of Pearl tackles supply chains, reveals hard truths and is right at home meeting sheepIt is not every luxury fashion designer who invites the Uruguayan sheep farmer who supplies the wool for their collection to their east London studio to see the finished product. But Amy Powney is not every luxury fashion designer – and a new film charting her 18-month journey to make a fully sustainable collection shows that in spa
  
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• Five reasons why John Lewis and Waitrose are having a tough year

  04-03-2023 09:00
  
  Financial woes, cost of living crisis and tougher competition are among problems that have led to expected second ever full-year lossIt is tough times at the checkout of John Lewis and its sister chain, Waitrose, as the staff-owned retail group is expected to report its second ever full-year loss later this month.The retailer is parting ways with the head of its department store chain and the celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, who cooked up orange-filled Christmas puddings and other eccentric tre
  
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• Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’

  04-03-2023 08:00
  
  Henry Dimbleby says suppliers struggling with rising costs while locked into fixed-price contractsThe government’s food tsar has blamed Britain’s “weird supermarket culture” for recent food shortages, calling it a “market failure”.Experts have criticised ministers for “leaving food policy to Tesco”, and meeting large food chains rather than suppliers, who have been struggling with rising costs while locked into contracts with supermarkets. Continue
  
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