Sentence examples for buying directors from inspiring English sources

One of the things that buying directors of shopping sites like Shopbop and Net-a-porter say is that customers want styling tips - and the buyers are picking up ideas from visual blogs and user-generated sites that help them present trends.

Caren Downie, Asos womenswear buying director, is less sure.

Natalie Kingham, buying director, puts it down to a "lift in interest for new and exciting denim.

"Gingham is moving away from the Stepford wives connotations," says Harvey Nichols fashion buying director Anita Barr.

"It's been an amazing weekend," said Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper on Monday.

Averyl Oates, buying director of Harvey Nichols, praised the show as "incredible.

A year ago, a movement toward sweeping skirts was in its "incubation phase," said Holli Rogers, the buying director of Net-a-Porter, the online fashion retailer.

It's about welcoming family and friends over the whole holiday period," says Mark Winstanley, creative and buying director at The White Company (thewhitecompany.com).com

My first interview was with the buying director of a brand I absolutely loved, to be a designer.

"They have always sold well for us, even in wintery weeks," says Madelaine Evans, buying director at Topshop.

The judging panel includes the comedian Helen Lederer, Good Housekeeping books editor Kerry Fowler, and Chris Rushby, buying director of Bertram Books.