industry leaders to sign a 455-person letter that was sent to Downing Street 10 days ago to warn the fashion industry facing “decimation” as a result of these export duties.
To date, there has been no reply. That this comes in the midst of a dire pandemic exacerbates the issue – partly because fashion sales are already right down, but also because the focus is simply not on Brexit. “Potentially for me, this is a bigger problem than the coronavirus but nobody is really talking about it,” says Stavros Karelis, the founder of Machine A – a Soho based boutique specialising in independent British design. “We are only six weeks in but already we can see the immediate effects and they are dreadful.
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