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Italian retailer Modes has appointed Simon Whitehouse chief executive. Whitehouse, who previously led communications firm Reference Studios and JW Anderson, will take the reins from Aldo Carpinteri, who founded the retailer, then called Stefania Mode, in Trapani, Sicily in 1971.
Modes plans to open its first boutique in London later this year, adding to more than 20 stores across Europe, in glitzy resort towns in Italy, France and Switzerland,…
