Welcome to the new Duchamp Winter 08 Collection launch.

The Web offer continues to grow and this season we added several new products areas to complete your outfit with style, including bow ties, wallets and pocket squares. It has been fantastic to watch the growth of our global website customer base and I hope that you are enjoying our offer. We continue to work hard at improving your Duchamp online retail experience.

Shirts

Our Shirt collection is now one of the best selling in our market and we achieved this by working with the best Italian mills and using completely exclusive designs. I also have to say, in these difficult times, that I am very proud we are looking to give our customer an even better shirt, striving to improve the quality rather than looking at cheaper sources. We want to give our customer a great experience and a shirt that will make its wearer feel very special, and as you all know, wash, wear and feel great.

We have added a few more shirt options this season and you also now have the choice of Slim Fit, Regular fit and Tailored fit. We have worked hard to improve our block, specifically on our best selling St James style where we have narrowed the sleeve and improved the fit around the armhole to achieve a cleaner look. The Slim Fit gives a cool, trim look but not too extreme and last but not least I wanted slightly more contemporary styling offered in the Rivington Tailored block, which has a darted back for even closer fit. Most of the offer is available in our classic St James Regular fit, with double cuff styling so don't panic!!!!!

On shirts we have also introduced an exclusive fabric that is only be available in our own retail stores, called the 'Avant Garde Stripe' and look out for the re-introduction of the Blooming Flowers jacquard shirt which we have added in dark navy and I feel will become a new classic colour for Duchamp.

We've also classified the collection into 3 separate categories - Creative, Business and Contemporary. Creative represents our core customers who love our colour and design and makes up around 65% of the collection, the Business collection, which we have grown into 25% of the range, aimed at a more classic customer who might love our designs but would prefer the more classic shades of blue and tonal colours and would enable him to wear Duchamp to work. Last but not least, at around 10% if the mix is the Contemporary offer for a more modern look, in the Rivington shirt and a slightly skinnier Tie at 8.5cm blade width, coupled with maybe a mono colour cufflink design.

Our launch story is "Atoll" which was influenced by the colours found in the lagoons of the Indian Ocean, Atoll is a more sophisticated palette of teal blues and granite highlighted with tones of our exclusive Lilac.

We are very excited about this collection we hope that you will be too, so please send us as much feed back as possible as we are going to invest much more time in our Website going forward so that we can make your shopping experience one that you would recommend to friends and family.

Remember to "Keep it Sharp, Keep it Lively"

Best Regards
Marc Psarolis
Chief Executive