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Laura Ashley
Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic designs – often with a 19th-century rural feel – and the use of natural fabrics.
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business · Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman (1925–1985) · businessperson · fashion designer · textile designer · textile artist · designer · also Laura Ashley, Ashley
Born 7 September 1925 · Died 17 September 1985 · Q449114
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Laura Ashley bought by US owner of Ben Sherman
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poppy Marshall-Lawton: bringing Laura Ashley back into fashion
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: UK accounting watchdog fines auditor of collapsed retailer Laura Ashley
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: From Laura Ashley to Debenhams: the biggest retail collapses of 2020
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2020· 7 entries
The Guardian: Laura Ashley returns to UK high street after deal with Next
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The Guardian: Second administrator to scrutinise Laura Ashley collapse
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The Guardian: Laura Ashley to file for administration as coronavirus takes toll
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The Guardian: Laura Ashley to raid archives as home furnishing sales plunge
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The Guardian: Laura Ashley agrees emergency funding deal with Wells Fargo
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The Guardian: How to save Laura Ashley: relaunch all its beautiful vintage dresses
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The Guardian: Laura Ashley owner in crisis talks to secure emergency funding
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Laura Ashley reports £14m loss on slump in home furnishings
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2011· 1 entry
From The Laura Ashley Foundation to The Ashley Family Foundation
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1985· 4 entries
Died 1985-09-17.
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“We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.”
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Laura Ashley Holdings went public in a flotation that was 34 times oversubscribed
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Just after her 60th birthday, Laura Ashley fell down the stairs of her daughter's home in the West Midlands and was taken to hospital in Coventry, where she died ten days later of a brain haemorrhage
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1955· 1 entry
But when the third of their four children was born, the family moved to Wales in 1960
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1942· 1 entry
At age 16, she left school and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-09-07.
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