Money makers: Smart clobber for mothers-to-be

When Cecile Reinaud's pregnant colleagues came to her complaining they didn't have anything to wear, she got down to business and set up Séraphine.

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My pregnant colleagues were "always annoyed they couldn't find anything suitable to wear", especially clothes smart enough for the office, French-born Cecile Reinaud tells Michael Caines in The Daily Telegraph. Her workmates in the advertising industry knew about her hobby in designing clothes, and urged Reinaud to come up with a solution. That's when "I saw the potential of a maternity-wear business", says Reinaud. "There was a well-developed brand in the US, but not a lot else."

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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