imminent disposal by the French luxury goods behemoth of its famous British shirtmaker, Thomas Pink, following a calamitous year in formalwear sales.And if the former’s rise to fashionable notoriety as the unashamedly ergonomic, cork-soled favourite of the likes of Kate Moss and Kendall Jenner explains its widely heralded acquisition, then surely the little-reported offloading of Thomas Pink confirms a shift in real-world values that could also reshape the boundaries of what was once dubbed ‘luxury’.Set up by three Irish brothers in 1984 to create suitably strident shirting for the era’s deregulated city workers, it was acquired by the luxury group in 1999.
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