Drapers

Drapers, formerly Drapers Record, is a business-to-business magazine and website covering the fashion retail sector. It was founded on 6 August 1887 to cover the women's clothing retail trade, but today spans the whole fashion retail sector, including wider retail issues such as digital transformation, technological advances and the management of supply chains. The publication is owned by Metropolis.

Drapers also hosts a series of conferences, events and awards ceremonies throughout the year to recognise the best-performing businesses and to share learnings.

History

Drapers was founded on 6 August 1887. Former editors of the magazine and website have included Freddie Offley, Sally Bain, Josephine Collins, Lauretta Roberts, Jessica Brown, Caroline Nodder and Eric Musgrave. The current editor is Keely Stocker.

In 1961, Drapers Record was bought along with the Illustrated London News, Men's Wear and the Tatler by the Thomson Corporation and formed into the new Thomson Publications business. Thomson sold Drapers Record in 1985, along with the Illustrated London News, Family Circle, Living, and Construction News. From 1988 to 1992, it was known as DR The Fashion Business, but from 1992 it returned to its original name of Drapers Record.

In 2002, Drapers Record merged with sister title, Men's Wear, which had been launched in 1902, to become simply Drapers.[1] In November 2006, Emap started making a version of the magazine available digitally every week. The website[2] was relaunched in 2009.[3]

The Drapers website was refreshed and relaunched in 2014 making it fully optimised and responsive, while the magazine has undergone regular redesigns over the years, with the most recent in January 2017.

Often referred to as the "fashion industry bible", Drapers has broken many of the biggest stories impacting the sector and has interviewed many of the key players including Tommy Hilfiger, David Reiss, Alex Baldock, CEO of Shop Direct, Michael Ward, managing director of Harrods, and Topshop managing director Mary Homer.

Drapers will celebrate its 130th anniversary in August 2017. Ahead of this date, it was one of 13 titles acquired from Ascential by Metropolis International Ltd in a £23.5m cash deal, announced on 1 June 2017.[4]


Awards ceremonies, conferences and events

The Drapers Awards Celebrating the best in fashion retailing, the Drapers Awards are the most highly-respected industry awards aimed at recognising the top performing and most innovative businesses. The prestigious Awards are now in their 27th year, and attract more than 800 leading fashion business professionals to a black tie gala dinner held annually in November.

The Drapers Independent Awards Also in their 27th year, The Drapers Independents Awards in September highlight and celebrate the best of independent fashion retailing across the UK and Ireland.

The Drapers Fashion Forum The Drapers Fashion Forum puts the new business development ideas at the heart of industry leaders’ debate centre stage, navigating opportunities that exist within and between brands and retailers, and looking at how these will develop in the future.

Drapers Digital Festival The Drapers Digital Festival, held for the first time in April 2017, merges the Drapers Digital Forum and Drapers Digital Awards in one venue, on one day. The event brings the fashion digital and ecommerce community together to learn, celebrate, innovate and shape the future.

Drapers Footwear Awards The Drapers Footwear Awards celebrate the best-performing businesses across the footwear sector, with a gala dinner, awards ceremony and evening entertainment.

Drapers Operations Forum The Drapers Operations Forum is a one-day conference providing essential insight to keep businesses one step ahead of their customers so they can realise new opportunities across channels and cross borders.

Social Media

Drapers can be found on social media sites including: Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ruth Addicott, "Drapers Record relaunch to incorporate Menswear", Archived June 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Press Gazette, 16 August 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  2. ↑ "Fashion industry news & fashion trends - Drapers". Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Paul McNally, "Emap completes web overhaul with Broadcast relaunch" Archived June 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Press Gazette, 28 May 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  4. ↑ "New owner rescues construction mags". The Construction Index. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
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