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From the vaults: Paul Smith on the threat to the High Street (Guardian 1988)

Feb 24th, 2011

Publication: The Guardian Weekend supplement, Dec 3-4, 1988.

I have collected and kept magazines, newspapers, fanzines and all sorts of publications for decades.

From the launch edition of The Weekend Guardian, this was the first in a series of think pieces by prominent people on aspects of design.

Paul Smith could tell what was coming; the desecration of Britain’s High Streets – and thus independently operated, individual and often idiosyncratic retail outlets – at the hands of the giant chains of faceless stores.

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