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Already pushed to the breaking point by the pandemic, designers, manufacturers and retailers claim the newly-negotiated Brexit deal is a disaster.

London Fashion Week began on February 19 — with a pared-down schedule that reflected the ongoing fallout of the pandemic on the sector — more than 450 leading industry figures

including designers like Paul Smith, Katherine Hamnett and Roksanda Ilincic, sent an irate letter to 10 Downing Street.

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“The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where promised free movement for goods and services for all creatives, including the fashion and textiles sector, should be.”

Even Samantha Cameron, wife of the former prime minister David Cameron — the leader who held the referendum in 2016 that resulted in Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in the first place

said in a BBC radio interview that her contemporary fashion label, Cefinn, was being hampered by post-Brexit “teething issues.”

“If you’re bringing goods into the country from outside the UK, and then trying to sell them back into Europe,” Ms. Cameron said, “then that currently is very challenging and difficult.”

That the majority of the British fashion industry continues to rail against Brexit is of little surprise.

Over the past five years, homegrown start-up brands, international luxury houses, top London design schools and rural textile producers had all expressed concerns over whether Britain would maintain its reputation as a creative and commercial hub for fashion once Brexit took place.

More recently, last year, as the clock ticked toward a Dec. 31 deadline, fears over the possibility of no deal grew

bringing with it heavy new taxes on traded goods and gridlocked ports at a time when the British economy had already taken a battering in the pandemic.

That scenario was avoided at the eleventh hour. But as Britain adjusts to its new position outside the bloc, a chorus of voices from across the fashion sector are expressing growing concern about what comes next.