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Erling Persson (21 January 1917 – 28 October 2002) was the founder of H&M (Hennes & Mauritz). [1] [2] He got the idea following a post-World War II trip to the United States: he was impressed by the country's efficient, high-volume stores.
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, commonly known by its brand name H&M, is a Swedish multinational fashion retailer headquartered in Stockholm. Known for its fast fashion business model, H&M sells clothing, accessories, and homeware. The company has a significant global presence, operating thousands of stores across 75 geographical markets and ...
Designers noticed that their designs were being copied, and many designers began to adapt; in 2004, the retailer H&M, a prominent fast fashion brand, collaborated with fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld to introduce a one-time collection that proved to be a huge success, as women flocked to H&M stores to own a piece of the designer's 30 selections ...
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
Hip flask tucked into a garter during Prohibition. In Elizabethan fashions, men wore garters with their hose, and colourful garters were an object of display.In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "cross braced" garters (a long garter tied above and below the knee and crossed between), as worn by the character Malvolio, are an object of some derision.
Between 1960 and 1979, the company rapidly expanded, with 42 stores across Europe, and began producing clothing for women, men, and children. [15] The foundation for expansion into the global market was laid in the 1980s when H&M acquired Rowells, a Swedish mail order company, and used its networks to sell fast fashion by catalog and mail order ...
A fanciful 19th-century depiction of Shakespeare and his contemporaries at the Mermaid Tavern. Painting by John Faed, 1851.. William Gifford, Jonson's 19th-century editor, wrote that the society was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1603 [5] based on a note by John Aubrey, but Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London from 19 July of that year until 1616 and it is hardly likely that someone ...
During the early 18th century the first fashion designers came to the fore as the leaders of fashion. In the 1720s, the queen's dressmaker Françoise Leclerc became sought-after by the women of the French aristocracy, [4] and in the mid century, Marie Madeleine Duchapt, Mademoiselle Alexandre and Le Sieur Beaulard all gained national recognition and expanded their customer base from the French ...