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2001 Bailey meets Burberry CEO Rose Marie Bravo, who is on the hunt for a new design director. The company is struggling from the over-exposure of its signature check, and from its association with “chavs” and soap-opera starlets. His debut in October receives positive reviews. “Former Gucci lieutenant Christopher Bailey has distilled the Burberry look into several core elements that offer a grown-up take on London street style,” Nathan Cooper writes for Vogue.
2005 Bailey wins Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Applauded for generating £170 million in sales, he tops Forbes's most influential fashion designers list.
2006 Ahrendts joins Burberry as chief executive in January. In an effort to restore the brand's catchet, Bailey and Ahrendts discontinue about 35 products, buying back more than 20 licenses.
2009 Bailey is appointed Chief Creative Officer in recognition of his multifaceted role, which includes advertising, merchandising and digital strategy as well as design. The company is now worth £2.6 billion, up from £1 billion when he started. The same year, Bailey is appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He moves the Burberry Spring/Summer 2010 show to Milan, live-streaming it at the brand's London flagship. The company lau
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I was at the Burberry show in London this past season. I noticed that London is BURSTING with the Check scarf but so is New York…and it’s kind of everywhere. I got inspired and waxed poetic about the piece.
The Burberry Check scarf is one of those pieces that I consider as having a “farmer’s market effect.” Have you ever had a night of debauchery and then you go to the farmer’s market the next morning, start sniffing organic apples hailing from some yadiyada upstate orchard, and then suddenly feel presentable? (Basically, have you ever stepped foot in Park Slope? There are some real freaks fondling the fruits there in the early AM). Each sniff of an apple washes away anything foul that you were up to the night before and suddenly, you become a respectable member of society. The same sentiment applies to the British house’s scarf. You could have been guzzling pints at the pub the night before; had a sad orgy—and that’s fine. Throw on a Burberry scarf and you instantly look like a polite uniformed British school boy skipping around London; maybe some Lady in a gloriously dilapidated countryside home, taking her foggy morning gallop on a horse, the natty scarf fluttering behind her. The piece excuses bad manners, runny eyeliner, and any of last night’s ste
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