2026

Fashion
Art

Japanese Shoppers Are Driving Up Jewellery Sales to a Record

Sales of gems, precious metals and artwork at Japan’s department stores climbed 19 percent in the first half of 2026 from a year earlier to $2 billion. [...]

Opinion: Erling Haaland Shows All Is Not Lost for Nike

Though Adidas dressed both teams in the World Cup finals, the global football tournament still presented some bright spots for Nike, writes Bloomberg’s Andrea Felsted. [...]

The BoF Podcast | Avery Trufelman: ‘Everything Has Fashion. Fashion Is Just Taste Over Time.’

From our archive, the creator and host of award-winning podcast “Articles of Interest” joins BoF founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Imran Amed to explore what clothing can reveal about identity, culture, [...]

Can Jonathan Saunders Spark a Kate Spade Revival?

Saunders, the brand’s first creative director in five years and a skilled colourist, promises to give Kate Spade the clarity it has long lacked. Now, Tapestry must apply the same [...]

Summers Are Getting Hotter. Is Beauty Ready?

From sweat-resistant makeup to climate-adaptive skincare, brands are rethinking beauty for a hotter planet. [...]

Perfume Maker Givaudan’s Sales Beat Estimates, Tariff Paybacks Weigh on Shares

Givaudan’s second-quarter organic sales came in ahead of market estimates on Thursday, but its shares fell 5 percent on litigation costs and tariff repayments. [...]

UK Retail Sales Get Surprise Boost From Hot Weather and World Cup

Sales rose unexpectedly in June as shoppers increased spending on clothing and air conditioning, adding to signs of a pickup spurred by record temperatures and the World Cup. [...]

What Makes Madison Avenue Work

The renaissance of the Upper East Side shopping district reflects a broader shift in how brands are rethinking their retail strategies, prioritising affluent neighbourhoods where loyal customers live and dine. [...]

Trump to Impose Forced Labour Duties on Friday as Temporary 10% US Tariffs Expire

The move is the White House’s latest effort to restore Trump’s campaign vision of a near-global tariff after the US Supreme Court in February struck down ⁠his ‘reciprocal’ duties. [...]

Opinion: Francesco Risso Can Make GU the Anti-Shein

To become a meaningful fast-fashion challenger, Fast Retailing CEO Tadashi Yanai must expand GU aggressively while preserving the brand’s quality, writes Bloomberg’s Juliana Liu. [...]

LVMH Appoints General Manager of Fragrance

Givenchy executive Yann Musquin will lead the group’s fragrance portfolio, succeeding longtime division head Romain Spitzer. [...]

India Changes Rule in Win for Foreign E-Commerce Companies

In a major win for Amazon, which lobbied for the change, the government will allow foreign e-commerce companies to buy products directly from Indian sellers and sell them to overseas [...]

Merit Gets an Assist From Vasiliki Petrou

This week, Priya Rao gets into the makeup brand’s newest investor, dive into retail consolidation and look at Fenty Beauty foundation flares. [...]

Zegna Sales Jump 17 Percent, Shaking Off Luxury Headwinds

Sales also accelerated at the Italian group’s Thom Browne and Tom Ford labels. [...]

Halal Beauty’s World Leaders Struggle for Dominance

Indonesia has fallen from second to fourth place in the global halal beauty market, as local brands face consumer trust issues and international competition for Muslim shoppers. [...]

Skincare Brand Prequel Appoints C-Suite

The dermatologist-developed label has named Nathalie Kristo as its first chief executive officer and Toral Patel as chief marketing officer. [...]

Is Fashion School Still Worth It?

As AI reshapes entry-level jobs and the fashion industry slows, students are questioning whether a fashion degree still delivers on its promise. BoF Careers’ Dan Hastings joins The Debrief to [...]

How Fashion Schools Are Recruiting a Sceptical Generation

Schools are updating curricula, strengthening ties with industry and expanding career support. But educators say success still depends on what students do with those opportunities. [...]

Chanel Appoints Hélène de Tissot CFO

The former Pernod Ricard finance executive will start at Chanel in October and officially take up the role of chief financial officer in January, replacing Philippe Blondiaux. [...]

Moncler Group Second-Quarter Sales Rise 5% as Stone Island Brand Outperforms

Stone Island’s strong performance helped offset slower growth at the Moncler brand, as the group continues its push to become less dependent on its iconic winter outerwear. [...]

Nike to Slash Number of Online Distributors in China

The sportswear ‌giant aims to direct consumers to official Nike channels in a bid to clean up the marketplace as it continues losing ground to domestic rivals. [...]

Mulberry Quarterly Sales Jump 23% as Turnaround Gathers Pace

The British luxury handbag maker reported a strong start to fiscal 2027 as CEO Andrea Baldo’s strategy gains traction and the brand gears up for designer Christopher Kane’s runway debut [...]

The Next-Gen Makeup Artists Painting Beauty’s Future

These breakout beauty professionals may not yet be boldfaced names, but their work with era-defining celebrities and the world’s largest brands prove their influence is taking hold. [...]

Kate Spade Names Jonathan Saunders Executive Creative Director

After years without a single creative leader, the Tapestry-owned brand is betting the Alexander McQueen and Calvin Klein alum can help reignite growth and sharpen its identity. [...]

Phillip Lim Announces New Brand PlayLoveWin

The designer departed his namesake label 3.1 Phillip Lim in November 2024 to pursue personal projects. [...]

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Boosts Hugo Boss Stake to Over 30%

After crossing the 30 percent ownership threshold, Frasers is now required to make a mandatory takeover bid under German rules. [...]

France Passes Bill to Ban Social Media for Children Under 15

Kids under 15 years old won’t be able to create new accounts from September before a full ban comes into effect in January for existing profiles. [...]

The Sports Moments Fashion Is Eyeing After the World Cup

The World Cup might be over, but there are still several events coming up on the sports calendar that also offer a stage for fashion brands. [...]

What’s Holding Back India’s Resale Market?

Recent startup failures have exposed the gap between bullish growth forecasts and commercial realities in India’s secondhand fashion sector, where cultural taboos, fragmentation and limited scalability continue to thwart ambitions. [...]

Worldview | Brazilian Footwear Exporters Brace for US Tariff Hike

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Dubai’s diamond trade, Chinese factories in Egypt and Senegal’s e-commerce middlemen. [...]

Nike Football Boss Says World Cup Final ‘Not What We Dreamed’

In a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News, Nike’s vice president and general manager of football acknowledged the tournament’s ending wasn’t the one the company hoped for. [...]

Swatch Reports Better First-Half Sales but Misses Profit Forecasts

Net sales rose 8.5 percent year on year at constant exchange rates, but the Swiss group’s profit was hit by negative currency effects. [...]

Why Some Brands Are Roasting Themselves

While most marketers ignore or suppress criticism, some are learning to harness negative reviews and poke fun at themselves to disarm haters and connect with Gen Z. [...]

Beauty Enters Its ‘Superdupe’ Era

Mcobeauty’s newest launch, crafted with precisely the same formula as its pricier forebear, Urban Decay, showcases an evolving strategy for ‘dupe’ brands. [...]

How The Lab is Turning Sustainable Cleaning into A Fashion Growth Vertical

As shoppers seek greater value from their wardrobes, garment care is evolving from an afterthought into a key part of the fashion value chain. Jo Farah, founder of biotech fashion [...]

How Trump Plans to Maintain His Tariff Wall

When the Supreme Court invalidated Trump’s sweeping import duties, he used a different provision to set a flat 10 percent levy on imports, which is set to expire on July [...]

Reformation Targets $1 Billion Valuation in IPO

The Permira-backed retailer said on Monday that it and some of its selling shareholders aim to raise up to $239.1 million in the IPO. [...]

Primark Cuts Prices Ahead of Split From AB Foods

The budget fashion chain said it would reduce prices by up to 29 percent across hundreds of ⁠products, seeking to improve trading ahead ⁠of next year’s spin off. [...]

India’s Tata Group Plans 100 Annual Stores for Its Westside Brand

The Mumbai-based conglomerate aims to double the pace of store openings for its premium clothing brand to reinvigorate growth. [...]

Human Skin Is the Newest Ingredient in K-Beauty

Skin boosters made from donated human tissue are booming at clinics across South Korea as patients seek new treatments to restore facial volume. [...]

The World Cup’s Biggest Fashion Moments in Five Charts

Data from the 2026 tournament reveals how a mix of reactive tactics, organic player influence and high-heat collaborations drove the real commercial value beyond official sponsorships. [...]

How Nili Lotan Is Finding Growth in a Crowded Market

On track to generate $150 million in sales this year, the New York label is entering footwear for the first time as it looks to expand beyond its signature wardrobe [...]

Inside the Team Steering the Next Chapter of Lululemon’s Design Strategy

As the Vancouver-based performance apparel, footwear and accessories brand evolves its design playbook to meet the demands of a global consumer base, BoF sits down with its global creative director, [...]

Beauty’s Favourite Celebrity Face: One That’s Not Everywhere

At a time when celebrities are expected to act like influencers, beauty companies are betting that underexposed talent can drive a bigger return on investment. [...]

Moncler and Zegna Results: Beyond the Jacket and the Suit

Moncler’s most muted quarter and Zegna’s US expansion will provide clues to whether the two Italian luxury groups can sustain their transformations. [...]

Fast Retailing’s GU Unveils First Collection by Francesco Risso

GU, a lower-priced counterpart to Uniqlo, is betting a former luxury fashion designer can help turn $18 jeans into global success. [...]

Opinion: Can Erling Haaland’s $50,000 Hermès Man Bags Help Rescue Luxury?

Luxury companies need to adjust their strategies to tempt more men to buy handbags, Bloomberg’s Andrea Felsted writes. [...]

Why Shein Is Worth Far Less Than Before

This week, Shein received approval for a long-awaited IPO targeting a valuation of around $40 billion, a steep markdown from its peak valuation of $100 billion in 2022 due to [...]

The BoF Podcast | Paloma Elsesser on Purpose, Representation and the New Rituals of Body Care

Paloma Elsesser joined The Business of Beauty’s executive editor Priya Rao about staying true to herself amid the pressures of tokenism and why — after a decade building other people’s [...]

Fashion Can’t Treat Climate Change as Just a Sustainability Problem

Fashion’s biggest sustainability challenges don’t exist in isolation. Increasingly, neither do the solutions. [...]

Artists’ monumental hot dog sculpture, now with patriotic toppings, returns to Times Square

Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding [...]

Buffalo AKG Art Museum will split leadership duties in two and promote internally for new directors

Chief curator Cathleen Chaffee and deputy director Jillian Jones will serve as artistic director and executive director, respectively [...]

Unesco adds ancient Greek city Tauric Chersonese in Crimea to World Heritage in Danger list

The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin [...]

Viking centre that loaned ship for ‘The Odyssey’ says that it has not been compensated by Universal for repairs

The Värmlands Vikingacenter in Sweden has reportedly not been able to sail its replica ship this summer due to $6000 worth of damages; Universal disputes the non-payment claims [...]

Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery

‘A Symphony in Blue and Yellow’ raises intriguing questions about how the artist wanted to present his masterpieces [...]

Appeals court sides with Jeff Koons in copyright-infringement dispute over ‘Made in Heaven’ series

The lawsuit was brought by the artist Michael A. Hayden, who created a sculpture that appears in some of the images from the series [...]

Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations

After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa [...]

Glasgow School of Art says £265m needed to restore destroyed Mackintosh building is ‘unaffordable’

The future of the iconic Art Nouveau building may be in jeopardy following fires in 2014 and 2018, as the Scottish art school looks for external funding [...]

Three Ancient Egyptian tombs with ‘significant’ inscriptions discovered in Saqqara necropolis

Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life [...]

A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk

Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv [...]

Jessica Morgan named new Tate director

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027 [...]

Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July [...]

European Union officially pulls €2m Venice Biennale funding over Russian participation

“Cultural events, funded by European taxpayers’ money, should safeguard democratic values—values which are not respected in today’s Russia,” a European Commission spokesman said [...]

Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end [...]

Museum acquisitions round-up: a Kandinsky ‘Improvisation’ and a canvas by Minimalist pioneer Agnes Martin

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

Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles

The artist MPA put her twist on the seminal "Cut Piece" at Redcat, in tandem with the Broad’s presentation of Ono’s traveling retrospective [...]

Shuttered San Francisco arts school will become college co-named for Nvidia founder Jensen Huang

The anchor institution for Vanderbilt University’s Bay Area campus will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, in recognition of the couple's $75m gift [...]

Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts [...]

A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness

The most comprehensive show of the artist since the 1970s brings together more than 100 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London [...]

London mansion where ‘secret listeners’ spied on Nazi prisoners for intel opens as museum

Trent Park House of Secrets tells the story of how mainly Jewish refugees covertly transcribed conversations from the building's basement [...]

The Armory Show reveals 230-gallery line-up and move to late September

Caribbean-focused curatorial programme and expanded sections for emerging galleries headline 2026 edition of the New York City fair [...]

Renovation of Bolivia's national archaeology museum gives repatriated treasures pride of place

The museum in La Paz had been closed for a year; its new permanent collection exhibition includes a mummified girl repatriated from the US and an Andean sculpture that was [...]

Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals

Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials [...]

Union threatens strike action over working conditions in Venice museums due to extreme temperatures

The Unione Sindacale di Base says it has formally signalled a labour dispute—usually a first step towards possible strike action—as Italian institutions remain above 30C for weeks [...]

As Andy Burnham becomes the new UK prime minister, here are five key challenges facing his culture ministry

From the future of the Arts Council to AI, there are several complicated issues for the incoming culture secretary to tackle [...]

Cuban artist-activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara travels to Miami following end of prison sentence

The artist was held in government custody before being expelled from Cuba while a human rights organisation filed a legal petition for his release [...]

Minneapolis Institute of Art hires Kevin Tervala to lead curatorial

The curator moves to Minnesota after more than ten years at the Baltimore Museum of Art [...]

‘A poem to the prairie’: new life for architecture as sculpture

Designed by the American Modernist architect Herb Greene, the Prairie House in Oklahoma is the subject of a new preservation campaign [...]

Italy returns 27 historical objects to Mexico after investigations by art hit squad

Artefacts including terracotta statues and fossilised fish were recovered by the Carabinieri Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale through six separate investigations [...]

The ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings

‘Sunflowers’ does not make the list—and there are other surprises [...]

How Constable country is becoming a hub of artistic innovation once again

Two hundred and fifty years after the birth of its most famous painter, the East of England's art scene has never been so vital [...]

'The Climate Clock is ticking': new art trail in Finland shines a light on rapid Arctic warming

Artists including Rana Begum, SUPERFLEX and Ranti Bam have produced works for the initiative, which is part of the Oulu 2026 European Capital of Culture programme [...]

US congress introduces bill to protect public art in federal buildings targeted by Trump administration

The Preserve Act specifically sites Washington, DC’s Cohen Building—the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” [...]

Legionella detected in cooling towers at the Metropolitan Museum, Cooper Hewitt and Jewish Museum

As the outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease continues on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a new city report shows more art institutions affected [...]

Detroit Institute of Arts director finds missing Velázquez painting

Salvador Salort-Pons, a noted Velázquez scholar, says he made the discovery by chance while preparing a related exhibition at the museum [...]

Tower of London’s architectural archive to be opened up to public as part of planned £70m revamp

A new Archive Study Centre will open as part of a multi-year programme by Historic Royal Palaces [...]

New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft

Show at the Jewish Museum looks at the movement founded by members of the Vienna Secession, who rejected Bauhaus's mass-production ethos [...]

James Cohan Gallery becomes Norr Cohan as founders step back

Longtime senior director David Norr assumes sole ownership following a years-long leadership transition [...]

Jacolby Satterwhite awarded inaugural Artists Living with Cancer Grant

The new grant, funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Rema Hort Mann Fund, supports New York City artists undergoing cancer treatment [...]

Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey receives gift of 70 modern and contemporary works

The donation—from the museum’s long-time patrons Anne and Arthur Goldstein—includes works by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman and Takeshi Kawashima [...]

Christie’s and Sotheby’s 2026 half year results: trophy lots and luxury goods fuel rebound

Private sales and flexible financing arrangements are also helping the businesses shore up their bottom lines [...]

V&A reveals 2027 exhibitions, ranging from South Asian contemporary art and textiles to punk music and fashion

Exhibitions on chintz, ceramics, and pop culture will headline in South Kensington, while South Asian contemporary art and Vivienne Westwood will feature at the museum's east London and Dundee locations, [...]

Bavaria approves creation of Nazi loot panel and independent entity for provenance research

The culture minister also announced the return of a Picasso bust to the heir of the Jewish dealer Alfred Flechtheim [...]

Gus the T-Rex sells for a record $50.1m at Sotheby’s

One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m [...]

Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration [...]

Robert Rauschenberg foundation donates three sculptures to shared Tate and National Galleries of Scotland collection

Now part of the joint Artist Rooms collection, the 1980s works will go on show at Tate Modern in September as part of a free Robert Rauschenberg display [...]

Ancient Egyptian grave with colourful murals discovered in Luxor

Archaeologists hope that further research of the site will reveal more about the lives of the people who lived in the ancient city of Thebes [...]

What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film

Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics [...]

Name of ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician deciphered for the first time

Discovered alongside unique formulas for the movements of the sun and planets, the attribution proves the importance of such work more than 1,000 years ago [...]

Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractions

Over six decades, the artist developed a distinctive sculptural language in Venezuela and beyond [...]

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