Dressing up rocks

16 November 2012

Translating catwalk fashion into an outfit for a seven-year-old is a tricky task, but it's a challenge Lindsay Dickson and Clare Winspear relish. The John Lewis childrenswear buyers tell us how they combine fun and fashionability in their boyswear and girlswear collections.

Exeter's pioneers 03 May 2013Trailblazer Kate Connock on running the John Lewis division's first new format full-line department store.
Waitrose Partners put down roots 19 April 2013Waitrose's tree-planting scheme creates a legacy of urban orchards.
Happy snappers 15 March 2013The John Lewis Photo Studio is responsible for the images that appear in our catalogues and online.
Get on board 15 February 2013Kevin Payne is one of the five Elected Directors on the Partnership Board.
The fast train 25 January 2013The leading fitness trends of 2013 include high-tech gadgets and slimming gymwear.
Giving purpose to surplus 11 January 2013June Ross-Wildman's charity helps to feed 10,000 people a month.
Partnership down 04 January 2013John Lewis's Herbert Parkinson Partners create some of the division's most popular Clearance products.
All hands on decs 07 December 2012Lisa Rutherford is the woman who makes John Lewis's Christmas assortment innovative and traditional.
Brand ambassadors 30 November 2012Kate Leach makes sure that John Lewis Watford is in the public eye.
Dressing up rocks 16 November 2012John Lewis's childrenswear buyers discuss their fashion-conscious new collections.
Our man in Delhi 02 November 2012John Lewis's India Sourcing Office Partners get into the Partnership spirit.
Home and the range 21 September 2012John Lewis's exciting new home ranges are set to inspire this autumn.
Backstage hand 10 August 2012The Royal Albert Hall gets a John Lewis backstage makeover.
Supply chain reaction 27 July 2012Waitrose Supply Chain Director David Jones explains why warehouses and lorries need to be agile.
Up all nights 29 June 2012John Lewis Oxford Street's Karen Miller is up all night giving great customer service.
Man with a vision 15 June 2012John Lewis's 'Mr TV' talks about the next big thing in Vision.
Home thoughts on abroad 05 April 2012David Morton talks about the rapid expansion of the Waitrose name internationally.
Changing times 27 January 2012During his long career Waitrose's Retail Director has seen the business transformed by technology.
Eastern star 02 September 2011Local boy Noel Saunders is MD of soon-to-open John Lewis Stratford City in London's East End.
Man of The Hour 05 August 2011Ben Whishaw, star of BBC series The Hour, talks to Jacqueline Mair about fame, fear - and student funding.
Women of provenance 14 May 2010Heather Jenkins, Director, Agriculture Strategy at Waitrose, tackles the big issues in farming and sustainability.
West End woman 23 April 2010Judith Mayhew Jonas, the woman heading up the £1.5bn regeneration of London's West End.
Sharp outfit 19 March 2010Peter Ruis, has brought in labels such as Oasis and Ted Baker to improve John Lewis's fashion offer.
Firm believer 19 February 2010The financial crisis has challenged conventional business thinking. Is the Partnership model the way forward?
More than words 18 December 2009Gorilla author and illustrator Anthony Browne's picture books are available from John Lewis.
Sea change 25 September 2009Neil Canning's paintings, inspired by nature, embolden the walls of John Lewis Cardiff's Place to Eat.
A fitting role 18 September 2009Head of Retail Design Kim Morris on why fitting out a shop is a fine art.

Highlight

The commercial potential of business archives was recognised in July with the launch of a National Strategy for Business Archives at the House of Lords. Judy Faraday, the Partnership's Archivist since 1996, helped produce the strategy, which aims to encourage wider and better business sector management of archives.

The Partnership's own archive includes ledgers, photographs, items of merchandise - anything that throws light on the business's history, or the pre-Partnership history of individual branches. It is also an important resource for external researchers, from the BBC looking at Nineteenth century advertisements to PhD and MA students from the UK and abroad. Judy herself has just been awarded an MPhil for research into 'Women Managers in the JLP 1918–1950', which was sponsored by the Partnership.

'Most people have a family-history box where they keep things that help them understand their background and that have helped mould them,' says Judy. 'The archives are the Partnership's family-history box.'