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Abercrombie Shares Drop Despite Strong Holiday Sales

Shares of Abercrombie were down 7.4 percent in Monday premarket trading in New York. The retailer’s shares soared 69 percent last year. [...]

Brunello Cucinelli’s Revenues Rose 12% in 2024, Sees ‘Very Strong’ Profits

The group, the first in the luxury sector to report 2024 preliminary sales, said on Monday its revenues rose to €1.28 billion ($1.31 billion) last year, boosted by a double-digit [...]

Macy’s Trims Sales Outlook After Holidays Didn’t Deliver

The retailer’s has lowered sales forecast for the current quarter signalled that its expectations for a strong holiday season may have been too optimistic, as comparable sales remained flat through [...]

Lululemon Regains Momentum on Strong Holiday Sales

The company has raised its fourth-quarter sales outlook, expecting a revenue increase of 11 percent to 12 percent, signalling resilience against rising competition and slowing consumer spending. [...]

Generative-AI Design Platform Raspberry AI Raises $24 Million

Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz led the round as Raspberry AI looks to expand its customer base and accelerate product development. [...]

Announcing Club L London and Aligne to BoF Careers

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

Oliviero Toscani, ‘Shockvertising’ Pioneer, Dies at 82

The photographer lensed the provocative advertising campaigns — addressing social issues including race, religion, sexuality and war — that helped make Benetton one of the world’s biggest clothing brands. [...]

The State of Fashion: Luxury

Macroeconomic headwinds, shifting customer preferences and a deteriorating value proposition continue to weigh on the global luxury sector in 2025. Companies need to review their strategic priorities — investing in [...]

Exclusive: Charlotte Tilbury Comes For Her Copycats

The makeup artist and mogul is taking aim at rampant “dupes” of her best-selling products with a new campaign: “Legendary. For A Reason.” [...]

The Return of the Non-Smart Watch

Mark Zuckerberg’s $900,000 Greubel Forsey watch signals his embrace of a growing trend among Gen-Z and beyond: the return of traditional mechanical wristwatches, as the younger generation seeks nostalgia, authenticity, [...]

Los Angeles Faces Little Relief From Fires as Winds Persist

Southern California’s devastating wildfires are not only threatening lives and properties but also disrupting key fashion hubs, posing risks to luxury retailers and cultural landmarks, as the industry braces for [...]

This Week: Countdown to the TikTok Ban

Barring a last-minute intervention by the US Supreme Court, these may be the final days of social media as we know it. Plus, men’s shows and luxury earnings season kick [...]

LA Brands Pause Business as Usual for Wildfire Relief

Fashion and beauty companies have closed stores, offices and warehouses to focus on donations for those affected by the ongoing wildfires. [...]

Ronald S. Lauder Retires from Estée Lauder Board

Lauder, who is the son of the cosmetics company’s founder Estée Lauder, joined the business in 1964 and has served on its board for over 45 years. [...]

Amazon Is Halting Some of Its Diversity and Inclusion Programmes

In a memo to employees, Candi Castleberry, a senior human resources executive, said last month that Amazon was ‘winding down outdated programmes and materials.’ [...]

The BoF Podcast | Bethann Hardison: Model, Mother, Agent and Advocate

At BoF VOICES 2024, Bethann Hardison spoke with British-Jamaican designer Bianca Saunders about her inspiring career journey and the state of the fashion industry today. [...]

Senior UK Lawmaker Flags Concerns About Shein to LSE and Regulator

The lack of response by Shein’s general counsel for questions about its supply chain at a committee hearing on Tuesday made lawmakers “profoundly concerned,” British parliamentary committee chair Liam Byrne [...]

Supreme Court Signals It’s Likely to Uphold TikTok Ban in US

A majority of justices suggested they see US national security concerns as overriding the free speech interests of the companies and a group of content creators. [...]

Nashville show looks at how the Impressionists and others depicted food production in 19th century France

The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin [...]

Ancient petroglyph irreparably damaged in Mexico

Someone attempted to dislodge a drawing of a hand from a rock with more than 150 motifs dating back thousands of years [...]

Everyday defiance: Singapore Art Museum exhibition explores the role of ‘mundane’ art as a response to adversity

The show in the museum's new collections gallery includes work by 20 artists from Southeast and East Asia [...]

Moon paintings and fictitious flowers: Our pick of the art on show at Art SG

Silkscreens, videos and abstract paintings are among the works to look out for [...]

‘It was a risk—but the response has been great’: young gallerists in Southeast Asia on their struggles and successes

Galleries from Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, among other countries, are bringing the work of emerging artists to Art SG’s Futures section [...]

Singapore steps up: the Art SG 2025 fair hopes to ride a wave of optimism in the city state’s art market

With new galleries, private art foundations and an influx of potential new collectors, Singapore’s art market is looking for growth [...]

Damien Hirst selects $6.2m banana artwork for UK schools project

The British artist selected Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous conceptual piece to appear digitally in schools across the next two years [...]

Facing multiple threats, Peruvian archaeologists remain determined to research the Americas' oldest known civilisation

Researchers investigating the ancient Caral civilisation must contend with dwindling state support, violent land traffickers and robbers [...]

UK financial sanctions expanded to include art trade

The widening of reporting obligations will mean greater responsibilities—or burdens—on the market [...]

Ancient house at Herculaneum, known for its beautiful floor mosaics, reopens to the public

The Casa della Gemma is one of several buildings in the archaeological park in Campania, Italy, that are being made accessible for a limited period each year [...]

National Trust announces plans to address UK's mental health crisis

As part of its ten-year strategy, the heritage organisation will work with mental health charity Mind [...]

Hawaiian tsunami museum fights to stay open amid economic woes

The Hawai'i shoreline fixture is struggling to keep its doors open amid post-pandemic costs [...]

Pippa Garner, art and gender provocateur, has died, aged 82

Garner's witty deviations in form, text and body addressed the consumerism and sameness plaguing US culture [...]

Palestine Museum US launches NFT collection in support of Gaza artists

The museum released a non-fungible token of a work by the Gazan artist Mohammed Alhaj to kick off the new initiative [...]

Does Trump’s return spell boom or bust for the NFT art market?

Experts are sceptical that the NFT market will ever rebound to its 2021 levels, but the crypto asset sector may still manage to take over the art world one way [...]

January's must-see exhibitions: Weegee, Tadek Beutlich and the ‘first English abstract artist’

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month [...]

‘I like people who dare’: Peter Hujar’s moving and monumental photography comes to London

The complete range of the US photographer’s work—from rural Orange County to queer New York—is going on show at Raven Row [...]

Alexej Jawlensky, friend of Wassily Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter artist, rides again in new show

An exhibition of the Russian artist's work at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark will include examples of his obsessively painted single face series [...]

The self-styled ‘first English abstract artist’ Paule Vézelay gets an overdue exhibition

The show at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol will explore the little-known artist’s remarkable life and career [...]

Paris show reveals Francis Picabia's late-in-life change of direction

An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth explores how the master of genre hopping embraced an entirely different style during his final decade [...]

Where to see Van Gogh's work in 2025: Boston, London and beyond

This year also marks the 150th anniversary of Vincent’s time as a young art dealer in England [...]

Comment | Ryan Gander's first permanent public work in London puts a new shine on bronze

The artist’s six new, fun and idiosyncratic bronze public sculptures—installed in October—were made in close collaboration with local schoolchildren [...]

‘The event as spectacle’: how Weegee’s photographs were more than just documentations of life

An exhibition at the International Center of Photography will explore the larger-than-life photographer’s ability to create sensational images, whether photographing the hoodlums of New York or stars of Hollywood [...]

Tadek Beutlich, from Second World War soldier to master weaver in the picturesque village of Ditchling

An exhibition at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft untangles the life and work of the Polish-born artist who reinvented craft weaving as an art form [...]

UK tax changes spell trouble for artist estates

Labour government’s first budget extends inheritance tax, while non-doms are moving to Italy and the UAE [...]

En suite art? London exhibition opens in an Airbnb

East End show highlights the ‘commodification of the domestic’ say the organisers [...]

The Year Ahead 2025: market predictions, the big shows and openings—podcast

From the reimagined Frick Collection to Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern [...]

Art in the rubble: how Gaza’s artists are documenting the war

Amid destruction and a deepening humanitarian crisis, Gaza’s artists are using whatever materials they can find to express their reality [...]

Comment | What happens behind the scenes at the museum is what really matters

From delicate cleaning to forklifts, the unseen, but crucial, investment often goes unnoticed [...]

Police seize Sally Mann photographs at Texas museum amid accusations of child pornography

A 1990s culture-war déjà vu at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth—with the same photographs causing a stir decades later [...]

‘We deserved a better time on this earth’: New York’s Palo Gallery showcases Palestinian photography

Three artists living in exile collaborated on the exhibition "Longing: In Between Homelands" [...]

Deadly wildfires destroy Los Angeles art spaces as museums and galleries close

Even art spaces far from the raging wildfires have closed and cancelled events amid a citywide state of emergency, dangerous smoke and high winds [...]

New York takes first step towards landmarking Breuer building's interior

Sotheby’s, which bought the former home of the Whitney Museum last year, promises to respect the building’s “architectural significance” in its upcoming renovations [...]

The art world according to Marc Spiegler: former Art Basel boss launches online course

In collaboration with the events platform Art Market Minds, the ten-hour programme will dissect the rapidly shifting contemporary art ecosystem [...]

Cash-strapped Dutch museums nervous about future despite last-minute VAT reprieve

Institutions breathed a sigh of relief after the government withdrew tax-raising plan—but remain worried about possible funding cuts [...]

National Gallery in London’s Van Gogh blockbuster to open all night as final day approaches

The exhibition, which will host a 24-hour opening during its closing weekend, has been one of the most visited in the museum’s history [...]

Thaddaeus Ropac to open Milan gallery later this year

The Italian city is becoming a hub for millionaires thanks to an attractive tax regime for high earners [...]

Watercolour submitted online to Christie’s found to be by Turner

The Venetian lagoon painting—submitted by a member of the public to Christie's digital appraisal service—comes to auction in New York with an estimate of $300,000 to $500,000 [...]

Five new art books to look out for this spring, from art under siege to illustrated manuscripts

Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead [...]

Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s collection in Los Angeles

The non-selling portrait exhibition will be on display at Christie’s Beverly Hills during the Frieze Los Angeles fair [...]

Los Angeles wildfire reaches Getty Villa grounds but ‘staff and the collection remain safe’

Cultural organisations around the Los Angeles have been forced to close and some "expect the worst" [...]

Compelling prose and lyrical turns in Sally Mann’s poignant and, at times, shocking memoir

The American South plays a crucial role in the photographer’s richly illustrated book [...]

Trump claims he will replace the head of the US National Archives

The agency’s previous leader raised concerns in 2022 about Trump’s handling of documents after his first term in office [...]

The stuff of nightmares: catalogue of Alfred Kubin’s work shines a light on his dark world

The macabre artist’s blood-soaked prints and drawings at the start of the 20th century foretold future wars [...]

An expert’s guide to Brazilian Modernism: five must-read books on the subject

All you ever wanted to know about the topic, from its impact on global Modernist art to a novel capturing the “atmosphere of heady excitement”—selected by the curator Rebecca Bray [...]

The Big Review: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 at the Royal Academy ★★★★

The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance [...]

All the new art to see on London's Underground in 2025

As part of the Art on the Underground 2025 programme, Ahmet Öğüt, Rudy Loewe and Rory Pilgrim will all unveil works around the city's transport hubs [...]

How Bangladeshi artists played a role in their country’s ‘monsoon revolution’

Artists who had long suffered threats and censorship contributed to, and then celebrated, the downfall last year of the country’s repressive regime [...]

Hamburg art centre condemns ‘politically motivated vandalism’ of art installation referencing Palestine

The Kunstverein in Hamburg said the incident is currently being investigated by authorities as a hate crime [...]

Lingering market slump prompts the question: is art no longer a 'must have' for the wealthy?

At last November's evening auctions in New York, eyes were on a $6.2m banana, but overall sales were down 41% on the previous year [...]

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