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6 unusual facts about Laura Ashley


Chava Mond

Chava has also been on the catwalk for Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and London Fashion Week and she has appeared in the advertising campaigns of Laura Ashley, French Connection and Gina Bakoni.

Eaton, Norfolk

Shops and services at Eaton Village in 2010 comprised a post office, a Waitrose supermarket (containing a Boots pharmacy, Laura Ashley, and an estate agent), a veterinary surgery, Barclays bank, two financial advisors, another estate agents, an undertaker, two hairdressers, a dry cleaner, two pubs ('The Red Lion' and 'The Cellar House'), a Chinese/Thai takeaway and a coffee shop in the former HSBC bank.

Joseph Sitt

From Sitt’s early realization of the retail gap that left broad swathes of inner city consumers largely underserved by major retailers, Sitt founded Ashley Stewart (a name inspired by Laura Ashley and Martha Stewart) in 1991 which sold modern and fashionable plus-size clothing to African American women.

Laura Ashley

In 1975 Laura turned down the offer of an OBE (she was upset Bernard had not been offered one).

Remaisnil

The village contains the Château de Remaisnil, which held two different influential people (one of the Paris subway designers, as evidenced by the tiles used in the wine cellars, which were also used in the Paris metro stations) and Laura Ashley.

Stairs 1 Geneva

Approximately one hundred performers representing typical regional characters, with costumes and props, (Calvin and his fellows reformers, different spirits of the lake, Laura Ashley with her bicycle, living statues, etc.), were sited within the framed view of the staircases' viewfinders.


Pandora Clifford

She is the daughter of Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland and Jane Clifford, previously the Principal Designer for Laura Ashley and Zoffany.


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MUI Group

In recent years, MUI relocated Laura Ashley's United States corporate headquarters to a building at the former Heritage USA site that once served as Jim Bakker's PTL ministry headquarters.