Bailey diverts attention from £20m pay package while Christopher Kane is slick and nostalgic at London fashion week
After a decade as Burberry's golden boy, Christopher Bailey recently found himself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
At the fashion company's annual general meeting in July 53% of shareholders voted to reject the £20m pay package awarded to Bailey on appointment as chief executive as well as designer at the company. The vote was non-binding, and Bailey's deal was vociferously defended by the board but the shareholder rebellion undoubtedly piled pressure on Bailey to deliver in the build-up to this Burberry catwalk show.
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