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Italy’s Cucinelli Posts 10.7% Increase in First Half Revenues

The Italian luxury label posted stronger-than-expected revenues and reaffirmed double-digit growth targets through 2026. [...]

TikTok Prepares US App With Its Own Algorithm and User Data

The move could open the door to resolving years of debate over whether the company would share what is considered the crown jewel of the ByteDance-owned short video-sharing platform. [...]

Adidas and Puma Bet on Running Shoes as Tariffs Loom

The German sneaker makers are refocussing on running shoes to drive growth after losing market share in the category to smaller rivals Hoka and On Holding AG. [...]

Paris Couture’s Life and Lifelessness

In a week of couture shows that often felt formulaic, Glenn Martens’ debut at Maison Margiela supplied bold new energy, writes Angelo Flaccavento. [...]

Ralph Lauren CEO Sees ‘Resilient’ Demand Amid Tariff Uncertainty

Demand for the American luxury brand’s signature cable-knit sweaters and other core products remains strong. [...]

UK Arrests Four Linked to M&S, Harrods Cyberattacks

The UK’s National Crime Agency detained three teenage males and one 20-year-old female in the West Midlands and London on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, blackmail, money laundering and [...]

UK’s Mulberry Raises $27 million From Top Investors As Revenue Drops

The British luxury brand secures fresh funding and board support amid declining sales. [...]

Tween Retailer Claire’s Considers Bankruptcy for US Operations

Facing weak demand, increased import costs, and a significant debt burden, Claire’s Stores Inc. is contemplating bankruptcy for its US operations. [...]

Satoshi Kuwata’s Perfume Dreams Come True

Setchu’s debut collection of five fragrances will be sold at Dover Street Market in September after an unveiling at Pitti Fragranze in Milan, founder Satoshi Kuwata exclusively told The Business [...]

Ulta Beauty Acquires Space NK

The deal gives the US specialty retailer a strong footprint in the UK market as it looks to drive international growth. [...]

Uniqlo Owner’s Profit Misses Estimates on Weak China Sales

Japanese apparel maker Fast Retailing reported third-quarter earnings below estimates, primarily due to a decline in mainland China revenue. [...]

Crunch Time for South Asia’s Fashion Manufacturers

Factory owners and garment workers in countries like India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are feeling frustrated and nervous as their governments scramble to negotiate trade deals to stave off the [...]

Canada Goose’s Private Equity Backer Weighs Stake Sale

Bain Capital, the controlling shareholder of luxury parka maker Canada Goose, is reportedly exploring a sale of its stake. [...]

Rethinking Success Metrics for Brand Ambassadors

Alison Bringé, chief marketing officer at Launchmetrics, Nicole Baum, global head of marketing at Moschino, and Carlota Rodben, founder of Beyond Luxury Group and co-founder of Memora, share their insights [...]

Glenn Martens Has Come to Save Us

His Artisanal debut at Maison Margiela was a gust of something — not so much fresh air as major food for thought, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

S&P Cuts Saks’ Credit Rating Over New Financing Package

The luxury retailer’s credit rating is now CC — 10 rungs beneath investment grade — a demotion that ‘reflects our view that the proposed financing transaction is tantamount to a [...]

Amazon Prime Day Sales Plunge 41% in First Day of Four-Day Event

The annual event has emerged as a bellwether of consumer sentiment since President Donald Trump’s trade war clouded the economic outlook. [...]

Amina Muaddi Opens Its First-Ever Store

The new Paris boutique is the first freestanding location for the seven-year-old women’s footwear brand. [...]

The Debrief | How Fashion Learned to Love The Real Housewives

Once dismissed as lowbrow entertainment, “The Real Housewives” has quietly transformed into fashion’s guilty pleasure. Diana Pearl joins The Debrief to unpack how reality TV’s most famous franchise found itself [...]

Demna and Balenciaga: A Beautiful Thing Is Over

He’s not quitting, he’s just moving on. But Wednesday’s show was a moment to celebrate one of fashion’s most indelible image makers, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

Selling to Consumers in Uncertain Times: What Executives Need to Know

At The Business of Fashion’s roundtable in London, executive members and the editorial team explored why shoppers’ behaviour has become more unpredictable, and how brands can adjust. [...]

LA’s Uneven Road to Post-Fire Recovery

Six months after the Eaton and Palisades fires, fashion and beauty businesses are just starting to imagine what rebuilding will look like in a world increasingly beset by climate change-related [...]

After US Tariffs, Jobs Hang by a Thread in Bangladesh’s Garments Sector

Bangladeshi garment workers fear job losses due to the US imposing a 35 percent tariff, threatening the country’s main export industry and the livelihoods of millions. [...]

V&A to Stage Schiaparelli Exhibition in London

The exhibition will honour Elsa Schiaparelli’s revolutionary designs and collaborations from the 1920s to today. [...]

Exclusive: Heron Preston Buys Back Brand From New Guards Group

The New York City-based label follows other designer brands who have recently separated from the Italian fashion incubator. [...]

Puig’s CEO Knows How Brands Can Cut Through the Noise

The elevated feel of prestige beauty can seem out of place ina digital world that rewards instant impact and short-term virality. Marc Puig, chairman and chief executive of Spanish beauty [...]

A Pop From Colour: Watch Brands Turn to Bold Hues to Boost Sales

From Tiffany blue to Barbie pink, distinctive colours are driving consumer interest in a slowing watch market, helping industry giants like Rolex and startups like Norqain alike court new buyers [...]

What Trump’s Latest Tariff Threats Mean for Fashion

US President Donald Trump shifted the deadline for tariffs to go into effect to Aug. 1, and turned up the heat with fresh rates and new threats. In some ways, [...]

Building Brand Communities and Lasting Consumer Connections

The Business of Fashion and Klaviyo — a CRM platform for B2C businesses, working with the likes of The Body Shop, Castore, Paul Smith and Dermalogica — hosted a panel [...]

Couture’s Age of Experience, Experience of Age

Chanel at 110, Armani at 91, Me at Midnight: Tuesday in Paris was that kind of day, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

Meta Invests $3.5 Billion in EssilorLuxottica in AI Glasses Push

Meta Plaforms Inc. bought a minority stake in EssilorLuxottica in a deal that increases the US tech giant’s commitment to the fast-growing smart glasses industry, according to people familiar with [...]

Trump Says Pharmaceutical Tariffs Could Reach 200%

The Trump administration launched an investigation into the pharmaceutical industry in April as a bid to impose tariffs on the grounds that extensive reliance on foreign production of medicine is [...]

Asian Economies in Rush To Cut Tariff Deals

The Trump administration announced rates that remained above 30 percent for manufacturing countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia and Thailand ahead of a new August 1st deadline. [...]

Worldview | Turkish and Chinese Fashion Factories Invest in Egypt

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Nykaa’s Hong Kong investor, Reliance Retail in India and Nigeria’s mooted textile hub. [...]

Tariff Turmoil Hits Vulnerable Fashion Manufacturers in Southeast Asia

Looming ‘reciprocal’ US tariffs threaten the profitability of larger suppliers and the viability of smaller ones in countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia where some factories already face cancelled orders [...]

Why Boat Shoes Are Floating Up Everywhere in Fashion

The trending style has gone from a preppy staple to a high fashion mainstay as brands put their spin on the classic silhouette. The challenge lies in making the interest [...]

How Kiko Milano Built Pricing Power

The Italian cosmetics giant has deftly engineered a premiumisation strategy, and has elevated its distribution, product selection and points of differentiation, heavily reducing discounts and promotions in the process. Chief [...]

How Soccer Conquered the US Sneaker Market

Football boots, also known as soccer cleats, are becoming unlikely fashion statements in the US, a market dominated by basketball sneakers for decades. [...]

New Balance’s $10 Billion Plan

As the brand races to hit eleven-digit annual sales, CEO Joe Preston opens up for The State of Fashion 2025 about what New Balance is doing that its rivals aren't, [...]

Indie Fragrance Brands’ Big Athlete Opportunity

Athletes are increasingly getting into fine fragrances, but so far indie fragrance brands haven't returned the favour. That may change as they realise sports stars offer access to a burgeoning [...]

Salomon and Arc’teryx-Owner Amer Sports Reports Growing Sales and Profits

The group cited the continued strength of its flagship brand, Arc’teryx, and strong performances across its portfolio in China. [...]

KidSuper’s Colm Dillane Teams Up With the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets

The collaboration marks the first collection from the Nets’ new in-house label, Bero. For Dillane, a New York native, it needed to be more than another superficial logo swap. [...]

Vuori Opens First International Flagship

The store on London’s Regent Street represents the latest step in the California activewear brand’s expansion, after adding 20 new locations in the US this year alone. [...]

Lacoste to Sponsor Rolex Paris Masters Tennis Tournament

The heritage French label is increasingly asserting its sporting credentials amid luxury brands’ growing interest in tennis over the past year. [...]

How Angel Reese Became the WNBA’s Fashion All-Star

As a basketball player for Louisiana State University, Reese was a force on and off the court, winning everything there was to win and earning the nickname “Bayou Barbie” for [...]

Nike’s Plunging Sales Reveal the Difficult Task Ahead for Incoming CEO

Sales missed expectations and the company withdrew its guidance, laying bare the challenges facing Elliott Hill as he prepares to lead the brand. [...]

Amer Sports Raises Guidance After Strong Second-Quarter Earnings

The Finnish sports conglomerate said sales at its Arc’teryx and Salomon brands grew by double-digit percentages. [...]

On Records Another Bumper Quarter

The Swiss sneaker giant reported record revenues and soaring profits in its second fiscal quarter. [...]

Adidas Has Extended Contract With Basketball Star Anthony Edwards, CEO Confirms

Edwards and his AE 1 signature sneaker are central to the brand’s expansion plans in North America, led by its growing basketball category. [...]

Arsenal Partners With Labrum London on 2024/25 Away Kit

Labrum founder Foday Dumbuya is the first independent designer to create an on-field jersey for a Premier League team. [...]

Prospect New Orleans will not take place in 2027

The city-wide contemporary-art triennial will instead publish a book celebrating its first 20 years [...]

Hoard of stolen documents—including logbook of the ‘saviour of the Netherlands’—recovered by art detective

Arthur Brand worked with police to return the items to the Netherlands’ National Archives after they were found in an attic [...]

‘Why don’t you talk about the hostages?’: Nan Goldin interrupted by protester during Gaza-focused speech at Rencontres d’Arles

While accepting an award at the photography festival in the south of France, the outspoken photographer criticised the Israeli government [...]

Phillips claims stake in South Asian market with London exhibition

Held in collaboration with Grosvenor Gallery, the Modernist selling show sees the auction house tap into this burgeoning region [...]

Resistance is febrile at this summer's Rencontres d’Arles

The 56th edition of the photography festival asserts the medium’s disobedient streak [...]

France resisted loan of Bayeux Tapestry for ‘decades’, Macron says during British Museum visit

The French president made the comments yesterday at a ceremony attended by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer [...]

Turkish power plant reborn as regional cultural hub

Motorhane has been created as part of a European Union-backed effort to bring the arts to neglected regions [...]

Syria, Ukraine and Gaza among countries to receive heritage funds from Aliph

Syria is set to receive $5m including for Palmyra, while a further $9m has been earmarked to address the impact of climate change on heritage, mainly in Africa [...]

‘Research powerhouse’: Abu Dhabi's Zayed National Museum confirms 2025 opening

The mega museum, set to open in December, will fund projects aimed at enriching understanding of UAE’s cultural and historical legacy [...]

Your weekly dose of wonder: introducing The Specialist, a new podcast by Sotheby's

Sotheby's specialists tell stories of discovery, restitution and scholarship, looking at some of the most defining moments in art history [...]

Anonymous image makers, New York nights and confronting the colonial: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles

Our selection from the sprawling festival in the south of France [...]

A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer

The skeleton, which was displayed at Frieze Masters in 2023, has been found to belong to a new species [...]

Art Basel Qatar names Wael Shawky as artistic director of unconventional inaugural edition

The Egyptian artist has selected a curatorial theme for the fair's first Middle Eastern show, to which more than 50 galleries will bring solo presentations [...]

Sunstroke and protocol faux pas: works by royal tour artists go on show at Buckingham Palace

Since 1985, 43 artists have visited 95 countries and produced 300 paintings for the personal collection of the King—but it hasn't always been smooth sailing [...]

'The idea is to breathe new life into the space': Didier Fusillier, the president of the newly reopened Grand Palais, on his vision for the Parisian institution

Following a four-year restoration project, the French palace is staging a “Grand Palais d’été” programme, to attract "the widest possible audience" [...]

Kew Gardens to host largest-ever open-air Henry Moore show

Opening in May 2026, thirty works will be dotted around the 320-acre Unesco World Heritage site [...]

Remembering Thomas Neurath, who brought single-minded energy and intellectual bravura to leading the publishers Thames & Hudson

The managing director of one of the most admired imprints for illustrated art books, who has died aged 84, was a master of the integration of text and pictures with [...]

‘Our pattern, our document’: this Indigenous Australian community is using design to assert its rights

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is showing how Yolŋu people in the Northern Territory have employed sacred imagery in the fight to retain [...]

Once upon a time in New Mexico: 12th Site Santa Fe International focuses on the art of visual storytelling

This year’s biennial features almost 100 artists and “figures of interest” in a city-wide exploration of the tales we all tell and how they form us and our cultures [...]

Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK for first time in almost 1,000 years

The tapestry will be displayed at the British Museum from September 2026, as part of a bilateral season of culture between the UK and France [...]

A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

The German blue-chip artist will show more than 250 works at Fondation Louis Vuitton from October [...]

Towering ambition: the Swiss artist Not Vital's Alpine playground

The multidisciplinary artist mixes nature, architecture and art to grand effect at his foundation’s three locations: a castle, a sculpture park and a 17th-century house [...]

‘An act of solidarity’: exhibitions raising funds and awareness for Palestinians open in London

One show presents works by over 200 artists, while another focuses on protests across the UK [...]

As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

Other landmark shows of First Nation artists this summer include Duane Linklater at Camden Art Centre and Santiago Yahuarcani at the Whitworth [...]

The art market bites back as estimates fail to score

A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement [...]

New fair for women-led galleries to launch during London's Frieze Week

Echo Soho is founded by the gallery owner India Rose James and will host up to 12 exhibitors this October [...]

Comment | Artnet sale underscores its impact on the industry—and its limitations in today's landscape

The online data company had a truly radical offering when it started in 1990, but how will it prosper in a changed world? [...]

Revamped Holocaust recovery bill to scupper powerful legal defences

The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025 denies art owners an array of legal defences against claims for the recovery of Nazi-looted art [...]

Photo London, the UK’s leading photography fair, is relocating

Organisers cite ‘the feedback of galleries and collectors’ as the reason for the decision to leave London’s Somerset House for the redeveloped Olympia [...]

Cash as art: the famous artists who have made their mark on banknotes

The Bank of England is inviting ideas for images to place on its notes—a reminder that money and artistry have long been intertwined [...]

Somerset House to mark 25 years as a public space with weekend of free events

London centre for innovation and contemporary art will feature work by Tai Shani, Nick Ryan and Gaika during “Step Inside 25 Weekend”, alongside a pop-up basketball installation, drawing workshops and [...]

Less than two years after opening, the Museum of Censored Art in Barcelona has closed its doors

A statement from the museum, which displayed works by Ai Weiwei and Goya, attributes the closure to disruption caused by strike action [...]

Gustave Caillebotte blockbuster that sparked controversy in France opens in Chicago—with one key difference

The show launched in Paris to claims that it was a tainted exercise in queering the French artist [...]

Danae Stratou wins G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize 2025

The Greek sculptor, known for her land art installations, has created a new permanent installation inspired by the mysterious Phaistos Disc [...]

Remembering John Sailer, the gallerist and champion of Austrian art, who has died, aged 87

As founder of the influential Galerie Ulysses in Vienna, he established a market for the work of Austrian and German artists in the US as well as championing architects and [...]

UK Heritage Department feared ‘mass restitutions’ when Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland

Civil servants felt frustrated after Prime Minister John Major returned the 13th-century artefact 30 years ago, newly released papers reveal [...]

Remembering Peter Phillips, the pioneering British Pop artist, who has died, aged 86

The Birmingham-born artist, who drew on the city’s industrial iconography in his 1960s breakthrough work, was closest among his British contemporaries to the US Pop Art scene [...]

From a football feast to deceitful dolphins: three art exhibitions not to miss at the Manchester International Festival

The art event takes place across the northern UK city this month [...]

Amid a wave of global crises, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s Ship of Tolerance sets sail again—with added potency

The 20-year-old collaborative installation, which recently dropped anchor in Ontario, will travel to Uzbekistan next [...]

Comment | Now is the time to fight for US arts funding

The Trump administration’s defunding of the arts has more than symbolic significance [...]

Mechanical engineer develops AI-generated digital masks to restore damaged paintings

Alex Kachkine, a PhD student at MIT, art-lover and self-taught restorer, wanted to provide conservators with another “tool in the toolbox” [...]

As North America’s oldest company faces bankruptcy, the sale of its collection raises fears among Indigenous communities

Little is known about the vast collection of art and artefacts the Hudson’s Bay Company amassed from its founding in 1670, but experts believe it includes many important pieces of [...]

Ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship to be debated by UK parliament

Campaigners behind a petition that has garnered more than 100,000 signatures are seeking to end the kind of deals struck by the British Museum and Science Museum [...]

Glastonbury is over—but what might it look like in the future? Artists are proposing a sustainable model

At the Shangri-La stage this year, works of art were replaced by plants that will be cultivated on a plot of land near the festival site [...]

Turner painting bought last year for £500 sells for almost £2m at Sotheby's

The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi [...]

Art’s new hybrid economy: who is making creative waves in a sector where analogue and digital media exist together?

Practitioners such as Simon Denny, Chris Dorland, Sara Ludy and Jenna Basso Pietrobon are doing thought-provoking, transmedia work while being offline and online simultaneously [...]

The power of transformation: an immersive, thrillingly layered, journey into William Kentridge’s sculpture

The polymathic, multifarious, South African artist plays creative games with scale, indoor and out, in "The Pull of Gravity", a multi-decade survey at Yorkshire Sculpture Park [...]

Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism [...]

The magic of Troy Hill—a series of unique whole house art installations in Pittsburgh

Inspired by a visit to Naoshima art island in Japan, a US collector has commissioned a compelling group of site-specific installations [...]

Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

In the UK, Hauser & Wirth, Messums, Willoughby Gerrish and other galleries have embraced the potential of unique rural sites [...]

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