2026

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The Fashion Jobs Where AI Shines, and Where It Struggles

Companies have raced to put large language models to use for jobs from generating images to writing code, but to get the best use of this innovative form of AI, [...]

How War Is Exposing Beauty’s Packaging Problem

From soaring plastic costs to aluminium supply shocks, the industry’s packaging front, including sustainably-driven brands in search for scalable green packaging solutions, is now colliding with geopolitical shocks. [...]

Altuzarra Names Marta Lastra as CEO

The former president of Altuzarra will replace founder and creative director Joseph Altuzarra as chief executive. Altuzarra has appointed Marta Lastra as chief executive, the company announced Wednesday. [...]

Levi Boosts Full-Year Outlook on Strong Sales; CFO to Retire

Company veteran Harmit Singh’s departure marks a major change for Levi. [...]

India’s Nykaa Sees Fastest Quarterly Revenue Growth in Three Years

Indian fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa said on Monday it expects net revenue to grow in the late-20 percent ‌range in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, its fastest in three years. [...]

Once Sweden’s Top Company, H&M’s Struggling to Sell Its Rebound Story

From its 2015 peak, the fast-fashion brand has lost roughly half its market value, erasing tens of billions of dollars in equity. [...]

Worldview | Nykaa Confirms Acquisition Talks With Deepika Padukone’s 82°E

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Vietnam’s textile exports, India’s gold prices and China’s new e-commerce guidelines. [...]

Can the World Cup Solve Nike’s Problems?

Rumoured upcoming collaborations for Nike show how deeply the brand is investing in the World Cup this year. With football fashion on the rise, it’s worth wondering if this run [...]

How Fragrantica Became the Internet’s Perfume Bible

One of the highest-traffic beauty sites in the world, the perfume directory has become a magnet for both brand awareness and controversy. [...]

Nykaa in Talks to Acquire Deepika Padukone’s 82°E

The retailer confirmed negotiations to acquire a majority stake in the clean skincare brand, as it looks to further consolidate its foothold in the booming Indian beauty market. [...]

Dispatches From Shanghai: Inside China’s New Luxury Landscape

On his first visit to Shanghai since before the pandemic, Imran Amed finds a market that has fundamentally changed — from status spending to stealth wealth, from megabrands to homegrown [...]

Unpacking Saks Global’s Post-Bankruptcy Plan

The luxury giant has filed its roadmap to exit Chapter 11 this summer, confirming it will not sell Bergdorf Goodman. Under the new deal, bankruptcy lenders will take full ownership, [...]

The Art of Memory-Making: Inside The Ritz-Carlton’s Experience-Led Strategy

Luxury travel is being reshaped by a demand for discretion, individuality and deeper connection. In an interview with Tina Edmundson, president of luxury at Marriott International, BoF examines how The [...]

Italian Denim Designer Adriano Goldschmied Dies at 82

Remembered as the ‘godfather of denim,’ Goldschmied launched brands including Diesel, Agolde and AG during his decades-long career. [...]

Beauty’s New Challenger Conglomerate Has Always Been Here

By shedding its food and ice cream businesses, Unilever is betting big on beauty. But matching the scale, valuation and category depth of rivals like L’Oréal and The Estée Lauder [...]

Sportswear Brands Have Tough Decisions to Make Around the War in the Middle East

Surging oil prices are raising questions about the structure of supply chains and when companies will need to pass increased costs onto consumers. [...]

Medicines Regulator to Investigate UK Peptide Clinics

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said clinics are not permitted to make medicinal claims for the peptide treatments offered by their service. [...]

The US-Iran War’s Bill Comes Due

A US inflation report will offer a key glimpse at how the conflict is impacting consumers. Elsewhere, Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing reports results. [...]

The Public Isn’t Buying What Nike Is Selling. Can That Change?

Nike CEO Elliott Hill publicly exuded plenty of confidence during the company’s crucial third-quarter earnings call. That didn’t stop the brand’s stock from hitting an 11-year low. [...]

Etsy Bans Fur From Its Listings

Effective Aug. 11, the e-commerce marketplace will pull any remaining animal fur products from its website. [...]

The Game of ‘Selling’ Sustainability

From H&M’s bid to draw shoppers in with its sustainable positioning, Shein’s new circularity study and a campaign showing athleisure can be made using clean energy, fashion is trying to [...]

Nike’s Ann Miller Talks the Brand’s Final Four Takeover

Nike is all over the place at the Final Four. The brand sponsors each Final Four team in the men’s and women’s tournaments, with the lone exception of South Carolina [...]

Faye McLeod on Luxury World-Building, One Window at a Time | The BoF Podcast

From a childhood accident in the desert to 16 years conceptualising and creating Louis Vuitton’s windows, Faye McLeod joins Imran Amed to trace the emotional origins of her creative process [...]

Maison Margiela’s Upmarket Fragrance Play

The L’Oréal-licensed fashion line is launching a new 'haute perfumery' collection, in addition to its more masstige Replica line, to capture an emerging class of scent ‘connoisseurs.' [...]

Exclusive: Can This Skims’ Alum Make Columbia Sportswear Cool?

Scott Lloyd previously led growth at celebrity disruptor brands like Skims and Savage X Fenty. Now he’s tasked with bringing the same magic to the 88-year-old outdoor label. [...]

Nordstrom’s Sales Return to 2019 Levels After Deal to Go Private

The Nordstrom family and Mexican department-store chain El Puerto de Liverpool SAB closed a deal to acquire the company in May in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion. [...]

Saks Global Nabs $500 Million in Post-Bankruptcy Financing

The department store group aims to exit Chapter 11 by summer with a leaner store footprint and repaired vendor relationships. [...]

Maria Laura Neves Appointed Editor in Chief of Vogue Brasil

Neves first assumed the editor-in-chief role on an interim basis following Paula Merlo’s exit from the magazine in late February. [...]

What Beauty’s Richest Customers Want

Increasingly, beauty brands that target high-net-worth individuals are not competing against their Sephora shelfmates. They’re competing against luxury experiences or goods, like a stay at the Amangiri or a trip [...]

Tuckernuck and Renfold Brands Are Hiring on BoF Careers

Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion and beauty talent. [...]

What Will Be the Next Aesop?

The L’Oréal-owned brand has grown considerably since becoming known for its cult-cool hand soap, leaving room for challengers like Evolvetogether, Commune and Sangre de Fruta to take its place. [...]

Kering Shake-Up Reaches Jeweller DoDo as CEO Exits

DoDo chief Teejana Beenessreesingh has left the company after less than a year in the role, Kering confirmed to BoF as the French group sharpens its focus on its jewellery [...]

Carven Design Director Mark Thomas Exits Brand

Thomas is leaving the historic French fashion house, owned by Chinese group Icicle, after a year in the position. [...]

Online Resale Is Booming. Why Are So Many Users Unhappy?

Global secondhand sales are hitting record highs, but the platforms driving the boom are increasingly alienating some sellers with low payouts and logistical issues. [...]

Groupe Dynamite Inc. Sees Shares Jump on Strong Outlook

Revenue for the Canadian parent company of Garage jumped by 45 percent from a year ago to $284 million in the period ended Jan. 31, beating analysts’ expectations. [...]

Estée Lauder, Puig Advance Talks to Combine in Mostly Stock Deal

The beauty conglomerates are discussing a deal that would consist mostly of stock and could be formally announced within weeks. [...]

In Shanghai, the Martens-Margiela Synchronicity

Glenn Martens staged an opulent outing that underscored the depth of his connection to Maison Margiela, but the designer may have found his comfort zone too early, writes Angelo Flaccavento. [...]

Can Shanghai Fashion Week Give Rise to Global Labels?

The Shanghai shows can be formulaic and unoriginal, but China’s fashion capital is producing a handful of talents with the potential to go global, reports Angelo Flaccavento. [...]

Nike CEO Blows Off Steam With Staff Over Stalled Turnaround

‘I’m so tired, and I know you are too, of talking about fixing this business,’ Elliott Hill said during the all-hands meeting Tuesday, Bloomberg reported. [...]

US Retail Sales Rebound in February, Beating Projections

Clothing sales reversed course after three months of decline, but economists warn that the data doesn’t reflect current consumer sentiment following the war in Iran. [...]

The Retailer That’s Obsessed With AI | The Debrief

The Debrief hosts Brian Baskin and Sheena Butler-Young are joined by BoF’s retail editor Cathaleen Chen to talk about why Revolve is betting on ‘a culture of AI’ for their [...]

Eli Lilly’s Weight-Loss Pill Wins FDA Approval

Orforglipron, which will be sold under the brand name Foundayo, becomes the second GLP-1 weight-loss pill to enter the US market after Novo Nordisk’s tablet-form Wegovy launched in Jan. 2026. [...]

Opinion: Nike’s Uphill Slog to Recovery Just Got Harder

The sportswear brand forecasts that revenue will drop in the current quarter, and will decline in the low single digits for the rest of the calendar year. [...]

The Business of Looksmaxxing

From experimental drugs to cosmetic surgery, an extreme beauty ideal is taking shape among young men — and turning into business opportunities for haircare, supplements and more. [...]

US Tariff Refund Portal to Exclude One-Third of Imports at First

An online government portal will handle claims for about 63 percent of 53 million import entries at issue once it launches, according to a new court filing. [...]

L’Oréal Completes $4.6 Billion Acquisition of Kering Beauty

The two groups have also established an ongoing, broader strategic partnership that will focus on opportunities at the intersection of luxury, wellness and longevity. [...]

LVMH Shares Fell Most Ever in First Quarter on Luxury Slump

Shares of the luxury bellwether fell 28 percent in the first quarter as the war in the Middle East clouds the global economic outlook and intensifies demand headwinds for luxury [...]

Google to Launch New Screenless Fitbit Band

Google is developing a new model of fitness band under its brand Fitbit, aiming to compete with screenless wearable devices from upstarts like Whoop and Oura. [...]

Calvin Klein Sees Sales Boost From ‘Love Story’

Carolyn Bessette’s style on the popular show, which included Calvin Klein looks, drove an increase in online searches and ultimately sales for the brand. [...]

Is the Luxury Watches Recovery on Hold Again?

In his latest bi-monthly briefing, watches expert Robin Swithinbank examines how the war in the Middle East is weighing on growth prospects and offers a preview of the sector’s flagship [...]

Native Americans created dice more than 12,000 years ago, study finds

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe [...]

‘The subject demanded a more restrained approach’: Carlos Rolón on revisiting the 1966 uprising in Chicago's Humboldt Park

The Chicagoan artist’s solo exhibition at 65Grand documents the Puerto Rican community, where he lives, through intricate, monochrome drawings, found material sculpture and more [...]

Our pick of the best museum and gallery shows to see in Chicago this spring

From Seoul-born artist Dabin Ahn’s first solo show with Document to dancehall and reggaetón at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [...]

Artists respond to the continuing toll of colonialism in the Americas

A landmark show at Wrightwood 659 features works by more than 35 contemporary Latin American artists [...]

Did the US Holocaust Memorial Museum self-censor to preempt Trump’s wrath?

Two former museum employees point to quiet changes related to programming and language that they think are decidedly telling [...]

London’s National Gallery announces architects for new £350m wing

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House [...]

Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sends message of 'preventive peace' on digital billboards around the world

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities [...]

Lalanne mirrors owned by Yves Saint Laurent and a classic Diane Arbus photo: our pick of the April auctions

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month [...]

Gods, emperors and eagles restored in Blenheim Palace roof-rescue mission

The crumbling roof of Winston Churchill’s birthplace has been fixed in a £12m conservation project that the restorers hope will preserve the 18th-century country house for the next 300 years [...]

Museum acquisitions round-up: Andy Warhol in an apron, a solid-silver relief and Christo's luggage rack

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide [...]

Milan’s contemporary art credentials further bolstered by arrival of Paris Internationale

The cutting-edge French art fair is the latest to join an expanding cohort of global players opening in Italy [...]

A renewed focus on rigour and connection at Expo Chicago

The fair’s 2026 edition is the first to be helmed by new director Kate Sierzputowski, who has widened its institutional outreach through local and regional collaborations [...]

Judge rules dealer David Nahmad must return $30m Nazi-looted Modigliani

The case was decided in New York after 11 years of court battles [...]

Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists [...]

Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo

The fate of the 4,000 objects—including works by Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Martin Puryear and Edra Soto—remains unclear [...]

Art Institute of Chicago’s first Norman Rockwell acquisition is a home run

The museum has acquired the beloved US illustrator’s ‘The Dugout’, his 1948 painting of Chicago Cubs players [...]

Irreconcilable differences: Canadian cultural tourism to the US experiences a steep decline

A significant number of Canadians are shunning their neighbours to the south, a phenomenon felt most acutely by smaller museums and those along the border [...]

Monumental 37ft-long Indian scroll goes on public view for the first time at Yale Center for British Art

After two years of conservation, the 19th-century Lucknow scroll is on show in New Haven, Connecticut [...]

Canada returns 11 artefacts to Turkey in the first repatriation between the countries

The manuscript pages, prints and calligraphy had been seized by Canadian authorities as they arrived in Vancouver from Istanbul [...]

Smithsonian’s governing body quietly losing members

Two people finished their terms on the institution’s Board of Regents in early March and have yet to be replaced [...]

Artist Ali Cherri files war crimes complaint in France over Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed his parents

The airstrike killed seven people in a residential building in central Beirut that independent researchers have found to have no clear military function [...]

Santiago museum, set on fire during 2020 protests, reopens

The works of Chile’s most famous folk artist, singer and composer return to the Violeta Parra Museum, which now has enhanced security [...]

The Louvre’s new director is inheriting a troubled, traumatised museum—can he repair the damage?

Christophe Leribault, the former director of the Château de Versailles, faces a “derelict” infrastructure at the Paris museum and the fallout from last year’s devastating theft [...]

Christie’s to sell an almost unknown Van Gogh double-sided drawing

These were sketches for paintings which were never completed - or are lost [...]

Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke discusses the UK government’s response to a report about the future of Arts Council England, talks to the curator of a new Raphael exhibition [...]

Arts organisation enlists celebrities in fight to save Manhattan church

The Center at West Park has been marshalling support from famous actors led by Mark Ruffalo to stop the demolition of West Park Presbyterian Church [...]

Arts and heritage organisations largely exempted from new UK regulations on memberships

Representatives for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Tate had warned that the legislation could have severely impacted their funding [...]

Gagosian chooses Paris location to present three important late paintings by Francis Bacon

The artist had a deep relationship with the French capital [...]

Ancient golden helmet recovered after Dutch museum heist

The helmet and two golden bracelets, belonging to the eastern European Dacian civilisation, were returned as part off a court case against the alleged thieves [...]

Unesco grants enhanced protection to 39 Lebanese heritage sites as war escalates

The cultural body has also unlocked more than $100,000 in emergency funding for urgent operations on the ground [...]

Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena

The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others [...]

Keep it in the family: how Johannes Vermeer’s paintings remained out of view for so long

In an exclusive extract from Andrew Graham-Dixon’s new biography, we learn how many of the Dutch Old Master's works stayed in one family for years [...]

An expert's guide to Alexander Calder: six must-read books on the US sculptor

The best Calder publications, from a comprehensive two-volume biography to a children’s book about his moveable circus—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer [...]

A brush with… Karen Archey, head of curatorial at Düsseldorf's K20 and K21 museums

The curator talks about her love of Alice Neel—and keeping the meaning of art a secret [...]

National Museum of Korea Seoul sees a surge in visitor numbers

According to our 2025 Visitor Figures survey, the Seoul location of the museum is attracting more international guests [...]

Exhibition of UAE-based art in Seoul looks beyond the gilded stereotypes

Collaboration between Seoul Museum of Art and Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation presented works by 47 UAE-based artists in Korea [...]

Vaccine billionaire buys $17.9m Raja Ravi Varma, setting new record for Indian painting at auction

Cyrus Poonawalla is the latest collector to pay top prices for South Asian art, as the Indian art market continues a bull run [...]

Art crowd saddles up at the High Desert Art Fair

A motel in Pioneertown, a community in California's Mojave Desert, offers local grit and an antidote to art fair fatigue [...]

New York’s Jewish Museum opens Paul Klee exhibition without its centrepiece

The German artist's "Angelus Novus", once owned by Walter Benjamin, remains at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem due to war-related flight suspensions [...]

In a month of war, Iran’s cultural heritage has suffered huge damage

Some of the country’s most precious historic sites and buildings are in need of major repair following bombing by Israel and the US [...]

‘The sharp perception only a woman can bring to observing other women’: Dorothy Bohm’s photographs go on show at Lee Miller’s former home

The exhibition at the UK’s Farleys House & Gallery brings together female-focused works by Bohm, who also helped get Miller’s work back into the spotlight [...]

Trey the Triceratops sells for $5.5m via Pharrell Williams's auction site

The skeleton of a young adult dinosaur, excavated in Wyoming during the 1990s "Bone Rush", sold on the musician's online Joopiter platform [...]

‘Maurizio will offer the chance of a miracle’: artist-provocateur Cattelan opens hotline for confessions and reimagines pope-themed work

The conceptual artist revives his sculptural portrait of John Paul II in a confessional-raffle this Easter [...]

Bavaria restitutes Lesser Ury painting to the heirs of a Jewish banker

The group portrait by the Germany Impressionist is the tenth work the Bavarian State Paintings Collections has said it will restitute since its director quit a year ago in the [...]

Caravaggio documentary from makers of record-breaking Vermeer film to make streaming debut

The film is the latest to feature in the award-winning Exhibition on Screen series [...]

Charity Art UK digitises nearly 7,000 murals across country

The project, launched in 2024, was completed with the help of around 90 “public art volunteers” [...]

Construction of White House ballroom must stop, federal judge orders

The order by a district court judge for Washington, DC, requires the White House to seek approval from Congress for Donald Trump’s $400m construction project [...]

Plan to build border wall along the Rio Grande in Texas threatens prehistoric rock art, locals warn

Archaeologists and landowners claim the proposed extension of the Mexico-US border wall in Val Verde County could damage thousands of millennia-old cave paintings located within a designated national historic landmark [...]

Mexico’s art community calls for greater transparency in management of treasured collection

More than 300 Mexican cultural professionals are calling for clarity surrounding the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, María Izquierdo and [...]

Christie’s to hold its first South Asian Modern art sale in London in seven years

The auction, scheduled for 11 June, will bring together 93 works including rare Bengali pieces [...]

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