The Profile: Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane, owners of Boohoo

The owners of online fast-fashion business Boohoo, a huge success despite allegations of dangerous practices in suppliers’ factories, have just bought Debenhams at a knockdown price of €55 million

Boohoo, Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane’s online fast-fashion business, has just bought high street stalwart Debenhams

Names: Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane

Ages: 54 and 56 respectively

Appearances: He‘s tall and she’s shorter, both are polished and have a glow of youthfulness that only expensive skincare can bring

Newsworthiness: Boohoo, their online fast-fashion business, has just bought high street stalwart Debenhams

In depth:

On the terrace of a Turkish hotel, Mahmud Kamani, the co-founder of Boohoo, sat down to breakfast.

People were coming and going around him, but Kamani, in Istanbul ...