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Isamaya Ffrench Has Departed Namesake Brand

The makeup artist has not been involved with Isamaya Beauty for over a year, sources told The Business of Beauty. [...]

BoF Professional Masterclass | How Brands Can Get Category Expansion Right

Join us for our next BoF Professional Masterclass on Wednesday, October 21, at 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT as BoF’s Priya Rao and Liz Flora unpack how to successfully launch [...]

BoF Live | How to Measure the Marketing Impact of Desirability

Join us on Thursday, October 22, at 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT for our next #BoFLIVE. [...]

What Kim Jones Did Next

The former Dior and Fendi creative director is reviving his namesake label as a DTC lifestyle brand, anchored by a 4,000-square-foot flagship store in Hong Kong. [...]

How Brands Can Get Category Expansion Right

Successfully launching a new beauty segment can bring brands fast growth as well as longevity. But in an era of chasing viral trends and hype, companies need to balance quick [...]

How Riviera Galleria Is Positioning Athens as a Luxury Retail Destination

Athens is investing heavily in luxury retail, hospitality and cultural infrastructure, fuelled by rising international tourism and strengthening its position as a year-round destination. The upcoming Riviera Galleria is among [...]

Luxury’s China Hopes Face a Reality Check

LVMH’s sales report and Shanghai Fashion Week will bring fresh insight into the Chinese retail environment as Western brands seek to navigate the wobbly market and local labels angle to [...]

Inside ‘Made in Italy’ Beauty’s Strategy to Go Global

As Milano Beauty Week closes its biggest edition yet, Cosmetica Italia and its partners are betting that the country’s entire beauty ecosystem can become a brand in its own right. [...]

Shein Outsells British Rival Asos as UK Revenue Hits $3.41 Billion

The ultra-fast fashion company said sales had been bolstered by marketing partnerships with music festivals, a pop-up shop on London’s Oxford Street and local Christmas gift events. [...]

What’s Driving Mike Ashley’s Fashion Dealmaking?

Frasers Group is expanding its holdings in luxury and retail brands, but what it wants from those investments is not always clear. [...]

How Independent Thinking Powered the Spring/Summer 2027 Shows

Tim Blanks joins Imran Amed on The BoF Podcast to discuss why the season’s strongest statements — from Erdem and Simone Rocha in London to Rick Owens, Miuccia Prada and [...]

Fashion Brands Are Giving Women’s Sports Merch a New Look

Nike, Patagonia and Lululemon Join Group Battling Microfibre Pollution

Global environmental non-profit The Nature Conservancy has launched a new industry coalition to help apparel companies tackle microfibre pollution across their supply chains. [...]

Beauty’s Next Growth Engine is Live

Fenty Beauty’s first 12-hour online shopping event, featuring Rihanna, shows how a new generation of brands are embracing the practised art of live selling. [...]

Meta Bans Ads From TikTok on Its Apps

The policy bars ads from ByteDance, which remains in charge of key parts of TikTok, and extends to third-party advertisers running campaigns that link to TikTok. [...]

Gap to Use Athleta Leader’s Exit to Rebuild Slumping Brand

The departure of Athleta’s CEO for Lululemon is a chance to ‘reimagine the brand’s path forward,’ Gap Inc. CEO Richard Dickson wrote in an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg. [...]

Inside the Experience-Led Strategy Behind Saadiyat Grove

Opening in Q4 2026 on Saadiyat Island — at the heart of Abu Dhabi’s cultural district — Saadiyat Grove brings together luxury retail, hospitality, residential living and culture in one [...]

Anthony Vaccarello Exits Saint Laurent After a Decade

The designer leaned into the glamour and sex appeal of the storied Parisian fashion house. Sales nearly tripled during his tenure before sliding in recent years. [...]

The E-Commerce Basics Brands Need to Get Right

Brands may be racing to invest in new technology, but the biggest barrier to online sales is far more basic, finds BoF Insights and Amazon Fashion & Sports’ latest report [...]

The Top 10 Shows of the Season

BoF’s editors pick the best shows from the Spring/Summer 2027 fashion season. [...]

Tim Walker’s Fairyland: It’s His Story and History

Every photographer is telling their own tale, says Walker, but his new exhibition also offers an emotional document of the triumphs and challenges of queer culture. [...]

Harvey Nichols’ Birmingham Store Will Close in January

The department store’s Leeds and Bristol outlets will be converted to the Flannels brand in a shake-up under Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, which purchased the chain when it was put [...]

Zankov Appoints Its First CEO

Jack Tobin is joining Diane von Furstenberg artistic director Henry Zankov’s namesake label as CEO and part owner. [...]

LVMH, Kering Update Model Safety Guidelines

Nearly a decade since the luxury groups first published a charter of model protections, they are introducing new measures to protect those working in the industry. [...]

Why Does Chanel Need to Sponsor a Substack?

As the platform’s influence grows, a slew of beauty brands are turning to its most trusted writers for a more intimate form of audience engagement. [...]

The Brain Is the Next Frontier for Unregulated Peptides

People are experimenting with the substances in a quest for sharper thinking, despite legal grey areas and little published research. [...]

Lululemon Hires Athleta Head in Management Shakeup

Maggie Gauger is joining Lululemon as chief product officer as new CEO Heidi O’Neill looks to revive sales. [...]

Levi’s Growth Slows After Marketing Misstep

The company lost out in its third quarter because of a decision to market baggy jeans over low rise, but still raised its sales outlook for the year. [...]

Fast Retailing Annual Profit Jumps 32%, Beats Expectations

The Uniqlo owner hit a new record annual profit for the fifth year in a row, boosted by strong results in all regions. [...]

Satoshi Kondo: Crafting Issey Miyake’s Comeback

The designer, handpicked by the late Mr. Miyake three years before his death, is piloting a renaissance at one of Japan’s most storied fashion labels, decades after its heyday. [...]

The Verdict on Luxury Fashion’s Designer Reset

A year into fashion's biggest wave of creative director changes, BoF's Chief Luxury Correspondent Robert Williams joins Sheena Butler-Young on The Debrief to break down which luxury houses have turned [...]

Boots Acquired by Canada’s Weston Family for $8.9 Billion

The Westons agreed on Wednesday ‌to buy the UK's Boots from Sycamore Partners and the Pessina family, pledging to invest in the retailer's stores and online and expand healthcare services. [...]

Vogue Arabia to Launch Annual Ball

The magazine’s inaugural ball will take place in November, the latest in a growing portfolio of live events hosted by publisher Condé Nast. [...]

The Indie Beauty Guide to GEO

While conglomerates like L’Oréal and Estée Lauder dominate chatbot recommendations, independent labels like Divi and Omnilux are boosting AI traffic by targeting niche queries and overhauling backend data. [...]

Lacoste Fired CEO Ahead of Paris Runway Show, Sources Say

The French tennis and lifestyle brand quietly fired its chief executive, Eric Vallat, shortly before the brand’s latest ‌Paris fashion show, sources told Reuters. [...]

Frasers Group Acquires 8.8% Stake in Under Armour

The move extends British company’s push into sports brands following a recent purchase of Puma stock. [...]

US Luxury Spending Slows, Citi Data Shows

US credit card spending on luxury brands fell for a third consecutive month in September, according to data from Citi. [...]

Sarah Burton: Cracking the Givenchy Code

Two years since taking on one of French couture’s most high-profile — and trickiest — assignments, the designer is rebuilding the house founded by Hubert de Givenchy from the inside [...]

How to Make Customer Interactions More Meaningful at Scale

At a leadership breakfast during Paris Fashion Week, executives from Dior, Balenciaga, Jacquemus, Kering, Sessun and more joined BoF and Klaviyo to discuss the urgency to drive loyalty in a [...]

Better Cotton Releases First Impact Report in Five Years as Scrutiny on Sustainability Schemes Grows

The world’s largest sustainable cotton initiative is aiming to bolster trust and confidence in its programmes with data-backed evidence of its positive impact. [...]

Complexity or Cleverness in Paris

Sacai showed that complicated fashion can work. But technical innovation doesn’t always add up to a convincing vision, Angelo Flaccavento writes, also reporting from Louis Vuitton, Loewe and Jean Paul [...]

Frasers Group Steps Up Luxury Push With New Division, Larger Burberry Stake

The British retail group has brought its stakes in Burberry, Hugo Boss and Mulberry together with its luxury retail operations. [...]

Where Can Nike Find Its Next Halo?

When Nike is at its peak, there’s usually a central product that gives it a cultural resonance that no other brand can touch. Typically, that’s come from Jordan Brand’s retro [...]

Asos Customers Receive ‘Hack’ Notification Threatening Leak

The retailer is investigating after users of its mobile app received a notification claiming hackers had ‘fully compromised’ company data. [...]

The New Platform Bringing Latin Beauty to the World

L-Beauty, a new e-commerce site created by the non-profit organisation Latinas in Beauty wants to introduce shoppers, retailers and investors to emergent Latin-owned brands. [...]

How Victoria Beckham Won in Beauty

The line’s cosmetics offer, which makes up 60 percent of the designer’s business, has become a hit that global retailers and acquirers can no longer ignore. [...]

Report: L’Oréal Explores Unloading Chemical-Related Liabilities

The French company has engaged restructuring advisers to explore options for rising US legal liabilities linked to its use of talc and other chemical ingredients in some of its cosmetic [...]

Worldview | Man Behind TikTok and Douyin Becomes Asia’s Richest Person

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Qatar’s resilient jewellery market, South Korean e-tailer W Concept and Brazil’s newest department store. [...]

Indian Fast-Fashion Retailer Trent Jumps on Strong Sales Growth

Shares in the Tata Group-owned business rose nearly 11 percent on Tuesday as the success of a rapid store expansion project boosted confidence in the company’s growth outlook. [...]

How Beauty Brands Can Win When Every Channel Counts

Last month, The Business of Beauty and Front Row gathered beauty executives and investors in New York to discuss how content, the evolving channel mix, brand consistency and AI search [...]

‘I see the Turbine Hall as a sound vessel’: artist Tarek Atoui on his Tate Modern commission

The Lebanese artist and composer has created a sonic installation incorporating bespoke instruments that respond to Tate Modern’s vast atrium [...]

Pope Leo XIV addresses international museum directors at the Vatican

“Every museum is a place of memory, beauty and history”, said the pontiff to an audience that included the directors of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the [...]

A potentially record-breaking Mondrian and a recently restituted Kandinsky painting: our pick of the October auctions

Plus a marble torso of a Roman emperor and an Augustan marble portrait head of a girl [...]

Comment | Why the Great Art Transfer is an empty promise

A forecast generational shift in art ownership is fuelling a new sales pitch—but buying art as an investment remains a gamble [...]

Austrian presidential hopeful pledges to return Moctezuma’s headdress to Mexico

With the 2028 election just over the horizon, the economist Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn has put the long-contested Aztec treasure back in the spotlight [...]

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art makes room, lots of it, for murals by Banksy, Baca and others

From rare interventions by Banksy to monumental images by JR and Diego Rivera, and preparatory sketches by Judy Baca, the museum frames muralism as public storytelling [...]

‘Eventually everything, if you leave it long enough, will fall back into nature’: Michael Landy on the art of disintegration

The UK artist known for his searing critiques of consumer culture is showing a new series of drawings at the Sir John Soane’s Museum that imagine the future ruins of [...]

Vanished work of Mavis Pusey brought together in Los Angeles exhibition

The Jamaica-born abstractionist's first major survey, which opened at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art last year, moves to the Hammer Museum [...]

Palestinian artists after the ceasefire, Robert Ryman, Katherine Hubbard—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about life for artists in Gaza one year on from the ceasefire, visits the new Robert Ryman survey at the Barbican in London, [...]

Police recover Renoir paintings stolen from French museum

Six suspects have also been arrested in connection to last month's burglary at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer [...]

Comment | Mark Wallinger’s latest work reflects his mastery of making big ideas accessible

The artist's new series of paintings can be traced back to René Descartes [...]

Restoration of earthquake-hit palace in Mantua nears completion

The Italian city’s sprawling Palazzo Ducale has undergone a 14-year revitalisation and renovation, including a room decorated by Andrea Mantegna [...]

A Louis Vuitton foundation exhibition, with ten Van Gogh paintings, reveals the extraordinary vision of an early collector

Artist and collector Gustave Fayet is honoured as a bold pioneer of Modern art in the Paris show [...]

Signet ring depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria—a lost wonder of the ancient world—discovered during underwater excavation

The ring, the only of its kind known to exist, was found on the submerged Royal Island of Antirhodos [...]

St Louis's Counterpublic triennial explores connections between art and civic infrastructure

The third edition of the public-art triennial has expanded to more than 50 projects across Missouri’s largest city [...]

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s cemetery art restored in the Bronx

The Untermyer Memorial at Woodlawn Cemetery contains evocative bronze sculptures created by the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art [...]

Uncertain future for Glasgow’s art scene as city’s Centre for Contemporary Art closes

Despite several organisations presenting plans to run a new cultural space in the location, campaigners have criticised the selling off of the centre’s contents, including its archive [...]

Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction

More than 60 artists have donated work including Genieve Figgis, Alvaro Barrington, Joshua Donkor and Sanya Kantarovsky [...]

Hong Kong gallery Tang Contemporary closes amid row over outstanding debts

The gallery’s Wong Chuk Hang branch faces accusations of unpaid artist fees and legal action [...]

Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?

The reported acquisition of a work suggests that the London museum is revising its opinion of the late artist [...]

‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters

A collection of the artist’s correspondence provides fascinating new insights, from his domestic life to acquisition negotiations [...]

Wealthy Gen Z collectors are the art market’s biggest spenders, survey finds

The latest “Survey of Global Collecting” from Art Basel and UBS also found a growing number of buyers are bypassing dealers and auction houses to purchase directly from artists [...]

K-pop star RM shows off his collection of Korean art at SFMoMA

The museum appears to have a blockbuster on its hands—with 50,000 tickets already reserved for the BTS singer’s curatorial debut [...]

Artist unveils golden statue of a nude Donald Trump at European parliament building

The Danish artist Jens Galschiøt also gave out 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture to visitors of the Strasbourg exhibition [...]

Pop-up exhibition outside MoMA highlights connections between trustee Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein

A mobile version of the Epstein files reading room was parked near the museum on Tuesday, with Epstein survivors in attendance, as part of a campaign to pressure MoMA to [...]

Huge bronze book cover by Salvador Dalí stolen in latest French museum theft

The 150kg cover, embellished with gold, precious stones and pearls, was burgled from the C. Karoutzos Contemporary Art Centre in central France on Sunday night [...]

A brush with… Cecilia Vicuña—podcast

Cecilia Vicuña talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work [...]

Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director

Noujaim previously served as the United Arab Emirates-based museum’s scientific, curatorial and collections management director [...]

Ukraine rebuilds museum devoted to controversial national figure

Roman Shukhevych was a key figure in country’s fight for independence, but has also been accused of being a Nazi collaborator [...]

Brooklyn Museum’s $48m energy-efficiency retrofit is latest in New York City’s effort to cut emissions

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has undertaken similar projects at cultural institutions across the five boroughs, including the Museum of the Moving Image and the Metropolitan Museum of Art [...]

A documentary about and largely filmed by blind girls offers a casually radical perspective

“For the Moon”, the new film by artist Éric Baudelaire, unfolds from the points of view of five students from a school for the blind in Paris [...]

Toronto biennial brings monument to resilience and spiritual liberation to a Sikh community centre

Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu’s large-scale sculpture commission is now a permanent fixture of the Scarborough Gurdwara [...]

London's Victoria & Albert Museum planning to launch voluntary exit scheme

The scheme comes after trade unions representing museum staff held strikes in September, with negotiations still ongoing [...]

Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato

“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life [...]

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing

Renovation expands exhibition spaces and provides new facilities as well as creating better links with its neighbour, the Guggenheim Bilbao [...]

Jean-ius portraiture: Nan Goldin collaborates with fashion house Acne Studios

The US artist and activist is helping the Stockholm brand celebrate its 30th anniversary in style [...]

Historic building in old Danish artist colony transformed into luxury hotel

CORI Hornbaek Hotel, just outside Copehagen, brings together brings together contemporary art, Mediterranean élan and the local speciality—hygge [...]

From an indoor forest to a toilet made with seaweed: Design Museum Gent reopens after €20m eco-focused expansion

Museum renovation showcases creative and sustainable design ideas to help transform contemporary life [...]

A year into the Gaza ceasefire, art is a means of survival

Palestinian artists inside and outside the Gaza Strip share their experiences of loss, displacement and survival, and how art continues to help them navigate life amid an uncertain ceasefire [...]

Museum of the City of New York opens new centre for social activism

The Puffin Foundation Center for New York Activism’s inaugural exhibitions focus on activism in the Big Apple and the living cultures of the Lenape [...]

Phoenix Art Museum receives $5m gift for new Sri Lankan and South Asian art galleries

The local philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran hopes his gift will deepen cultural understanding of the region and elevate its art [...]

How an EU-funded research programme has been future-proofing art conservation

GoGreen has brought together experts from 13 institutions to explore sustainable methods—testing some out on a 1906 Tiffany dish [...]

British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours

Some ticket holders have reportedly queued for up to two hours to enter the blockbuster exhibition, while others have been turned away [...]

Behind Turkey’s race to save Gallipoli’s vanishing shipwrecks

A recently launched project called Deep Heritage aims to slow the disintegration of dozens of warships sunk off Turkey's coast during the devastating First World War campaign [...]

New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists

The study explores how Valleyer-Coster cultivated an elite clientele in a turbulent France while navigating the pressures placed on women artists [...]

Comment | ‘Britart’ started well in the 1990s—but it soon became as bad as Britpop