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From Withnail to with style: Richard E Grant steals show on Burberry catwalk
Actor who found fame in shabby attire creates pop culture moment on last night of London fashion week
Thirty-eight years after his film career began in a swaggeringly shabby coat in Withnail and I, Richard E Grant gave us another pop culture moment at the last show of London fashion week, modelling a rather smarter olive tweed number on the Burberry catwalk. A turnaround plan implemented by chief executive Joshua Schulman is pivoting Burberry away from trends and towards establishing itself as a global luxury outerwear brand, doubling down on its trench coats, check scarves and umbrellas. The luxury industry is jittery in the face of a spending slowdown and a new world order of tariffs, and the pace of designer turnover has picked up as panicked bosses, impatient to see results, burn through creative appointments at speed.
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