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Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way [...]

The Zara-Fication of John Galliano

Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige? [...]

The Impact of War on Fashion’s Supply Chain

Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally [...]

Bella Freud on Fashion and the Art of Getting People to Open Up | The BoF Podcast

The designer and podcaster joins Imran Amed to reflect on the emotional power of clothes, what Vivienne Westwood taught her about rebellion and how Fashion Neurosis has unlocked a new [...]

De Beers Makes Sweeping Cuts to Its Elite Diamond-Buying Club

The diamond company produced less than 22 million carats last year, down from almost 35 million in 2022. [...]

Virgil Abloh Archive Begins a New Era with Nike

Nike’s first official shoe release with the Virgil Abloh Archive begins its launch cycle this week. [...]

L’Oréal India in Talks to Acquire Beauty Company Innovist

L’Oréal is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Bare Anatomy parent Innovist sources told The Economic Times India. [...]

How Dwayne Johnson Made a Skincare Brand Men Actually Buy

The ‘everyman’ skincare market is moving towards premiumisation, as brands like Johnson’s Papatui ditch traditional one-note marketing for a more considered approach. [...]

Zegna Chairman Says War Has Clouded Visibility of Demand in Middle East

The Italian fashion house cautioned the war is reducing visibility on demand in the Middle East, which accounts for 7 percent of its sales, though all stores are currently open [...]

How to Protect Work-Life Balance in the Fashion and Beauty Industries

Industry insiders share advice on how employees in notoriously competitive fields like fashion and beauty can protect their working hours and set professional boundaries while achieving career goals. [...]

Why Adidas Is Suing a Sneaker Leaker

The activewear giant’s legal action against the popular sneaker news site Sole Retriever exposes hidden fault lines in the industry's relationship with the media that covers it. [...]

Why Revolve Can’t Stop Talking About AI

The e-commerce giant is betting that a ‘culture of AI’ can solve the mysteries of physical retail and help power its new pricey namesake luxury label. [...]

What Happened at Coperni Owner Tomorrow Ltd.?

The London-based showroom-turned-brand incubator, which also owns Martine Rose, is being sold to Italy’s Andrea Ciccoli. Founder Stefano Martinetto breaks down the move for BoF in this week’s High Margin [...]

Glossier Appoints New CMO

Nicole Solorzano, who joins from Ouai, is the Millennial beauty brand’s latest hire. [...]

Macy’s CEO Points to E-Shaped Economy, Signalling Consumer Shift

The mention of a forked economy by the head of America’s largest department store signals a heightened wariness that middle-income Americans will continue to spend at the same pace. [...]

Alibaba Targets $100 Billion of AI Revenue in Five Years

The Hangzhou-based company is the most aggressive Chinese spender on AI technology, having pledged over $53 billion of AI investment over several years. [...]

Opinion: Harry Styles Is Selling Sex — Even If Wall Street Won’t

The successful restock of a vibrator and lube from Styles' beauty and wellness brand Pleasing shows how celebrities are sustaining the sexual wellness category, writes Bloomberg's Jessica Karl. [...]

The Business of Beauty Global Awards: An Update on 2025’s Winners

Following their Global Award wins, founders from Akt London, Yse Beauty and Ruka share how the recognition changed their business trajectories. [...]

Is Harper Beckham Beauty’s Next It Founder?

This week, Priya Rao examines Gen Alpha’s next big brand, Hiku. [...]

France’s Bid to Suspend Shein’s Marketplace Rejected by Appeals Court

The decision from Paris’ Court of Appeal marked a win for the fast-fashion giant after a scandal over sex dolls resembling children for sale on its site. [...]

Tomorrow Ltd. Sells to The Level Group’s Owners

Andrea Ciccoli’s Progetto 11, parent of Italian e-commerce firm The Level Group, is taking over the cash-strapped distributor that owns Coperni and Martine Rose. [...]

Where Grown-Ups Shop for Beauty

In the wake of Sephora tweens, brands and retailers have to win back Millennial and Gen-X shoppers who account for the lion’s share of beauty spend. [...]

Tariff Refund Lawsuits Surge Amid Uncertainty About US Plans

The number of companies suing for tariff refunds has spiked recently, with the latest group including companies such as Prada and Adidas, in a sign importers aren’t confident in the [...]

Coty Announces Board Revamp

The embattled Covergirl owner has appointed five new independent directors amidst a wider leadership and company shakeup. [...]

Zimmermann Names Roberto Eggs CEO

The Moncler Group executive will succeed longtime CEO Chris Olliver, who is staying on as executive chairman. [...]

Unilever Chases Consumers by Focusing on Beauty Rather Than Food

The UK giant’s chief executive Fernando Fernandez hopes to scale beauty, personal care and wellbeing up to two-thirds of the firm’s sales. [...]

Watch Exports Bounced Back in February Before War in Middle East

Swiss watch exports saw a 9.2 percent rise in February, driven by a strong rebound in the US market. [...]

Inside The Business of Beauty and Amazon Beauty’s Paris Dinner With Industry Leaders

Founders, C-Suite executives and creative leaders from brands including Augustinus Bader, L’Oréal, Louis Vuitton Beauty, Caudalie, Prada Beauty, Hermès, Sisley Paris and Vyrao Beauty joined The Business of Beauty and [...]

What It Takes for a Fashion Campaign to Break Through Now

As brands release their first spring ads, those that make an emotional appeal with fresh talent are resonating – as long as they remember to put the product front and [...]

Swatch CEO Warns Iran War Is Weighing on Watchmaker’s Sales

The company has more than 200 stores in the Middle East, said chief executive officer Nick Hayek. [...]

Inside Australia’s Fashion Brain Drain

The country’s manufacturing capacity is fast disappearing, with only 3 percent of all garments sold in Australia made onshore. [...]

A Tall To-Do List for New TAG Heuer CEO; Richemont’s Survival Recipe

New CEO Béatrice Goasglas’s experience in client relations and the US market will be put to the test at LVMH’s biggest watch brand TAG Heuer. Plus, a sit-down with two [...]

Why Fragrance Is Fashion’s Newest Digital Frontier | The Debrief

Daniela Morosini and Rachael Griffiths explain why fragrance is moving online – and how brands are increasingly selling scent through storytelling, styling and the idea of a fragrance wardrobe. [...]

The Rise And Fall of Peter Attia’s Longevity Empire

Attia built his brand on trust and credibility. The revelation of a yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has upended that. [...]

Can Beauty’s Giants Turn AI Hype Into Sales?

As L’Oréal announces an AI-assisted product development partnership with Nvidia, beauty conglomerates are struggling to quantify the technology’s return on investment. [...]

Macy’s Issues ‘Prudent’ 2026 Guidance on Geopolitical Risks

The retailer issued a cautious full-year forecast for sales and profit despite strong performance at Bloomingdale’s, which has benefited from shoppers seeking alternatives to struggling rival Saks Global. [...]

India Probes Fragrance Giants Over Deals Not to Poach Workers

India's antitrust watchdog is investigating global fragrance makers Givaudan, Firmenich and International Flavors & Fragrances over accusations of striking anti-poaching deals that can harm workers, regulatory documents show. [...]

Court Temporarily Allows Perplexity AI Shopping ‘Agents’ on Amazon

The decision has put a hold on a previous ruling that had blocked Perplexity’s agents from shopping on Amazon. [...]

How Demna’s Latest Gucci Drop Is Landing With Customers

From online conversation to pricing to early store traffic data, BoF analyses how Kering’s biggest brand is adjusting its strategy, and whether it is working. [...]

Lululemon Sees Annual Revenue, Profit Below Estimates Amid Board, Demand Challenges

CEO ⁠Calvin McDonald stepped down in December following months of share price weakness and lack of design freshness. [...]

Puig Announces New CEO

Jose Manuel Albesa will succeed Marc Puig, becoming the first non-family member to lead the Spanish conglomerate in more than 20 years. [...]

Adidas’ Power Play Against Leakers

Adidas filed one of the strangest lawsuits that you’ll see in sneakers. It could have implications for how consumers get their information moving forward. [...]

Worldview | Middle East War Adds to Strain on Asia’s Apparel Exporters

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Japanese department stores, Brazil’s Lojas Renner and Middle East luxury sales. [...]

Spandex Maker Lycra Files for Bankruptcy After Years of Stress

The company has been hampered with disruptions to supply chains, elevated inflation, growing competition from low-cost manufacturers and trade tariffs. [...]

India’s Star-Studded Fashion Week Reaches a Crossroads

In pursuit of new audiences, greater autonomy and ever more dramatic backdrops, a growing number of Indian designers are turning to independent shows beyond the traditional fashion week circuit. [...]

Glossier’s New Strategy: Fewer Stores, Fewer Products

In his first interview, chief executive Colin Walsh shares with The Business of Beauty his plan to fix the struggling Millennial beauty brand by starting with a clean slate. [...]

Zara Taps John Galliano to Design Seasonal Collections

The star designer will ‘re-author’ items from Zara’s archives in a series of collections from September, reinforcing the Spanish retailer’s push upmarket. [...]

US SEC Preparing to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement, WSJ Says

The proposal would give companies the option to share results twice a year. [...]

How Mexico’s Independent Women Fashion Designers Are Rethinking Growth

At Soho House Mexico City, Mexican fashion designers Carla Fernández, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane and Camila Banzo joined BoF’s Yasmine Dahlberg to speak candidly about identity, innovation and what it takes to [...]

What It Takes to Lead a Challenger Brand

As insurgent brands gain ground in fashion and beauty, their leaders are developing distinct approaches to hiring talent, sustaining momentum and scaling beyond the underdog phase. [...]

Gullah artist Sam Doyle’s narrative portraits shine at Outsider Art Fair in New York

His works, painted on found wood and discarded tin, illuminate culture on the remote Saint Helena Island [...]

New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford – podcast

In this week's episode of The Week in Art, Ben Luke discusses the newly-enlarged New Museum, talks to Georgina Adam about her new book on the latest generation of art [...]

Zurich's Museum Rietberg transfers 11 Benin Bronzes to Nigerian government

Nine of the objects will stay in Switzerland despite the change of ownership [...]

Police investigating DJ’s comments at Sydney Biennale opening following antisemitism allegations

New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) had filed a letter of complaint about a speech by Zubeyda Muzeyyen [...]

Russia’s pavilion at Venice Biennale will be closed if it features propaganda, city’s mayor says

Luigi Brugnaro makes clear however that he feels the event should be a place for “diplomacy and openness” [...]

Van Gogh goes to China, with a more affordable early painting

Christie’s decides Hong Kong is the best place to sell the forest landscape [...]

London National Gallery’s visitor numbers remain below pre-Covid levels, despite renovation boost

Meanwhile, London’s Natural History Museum overtakes British Museum as most-visited attraction in the UK [...]

New Chilean president reverses predecessor’s policies, cutting culture budget

The 3% cut to all ministries' budgets, which has raised concerns within the National Union of Artists, is part of José Antonio Kast’s plan to bring down public spending [...]

Mexico’s culture ministry urges eBay to halt sales of pre-Hispanic artefacts

The Florida-based seller claims the listed objects were purchased legally, adding: “I suggest you research the laws” [...]

Major collection of Indian paintings and calligraphy to be offered at Christie's

Following the success of the Aga Khan sale in October, works from the collection of Seattle-based Mary and Cheney Cowles will be sold in London in April [...]

Art Dubai 2026 to be postponed and adapted in response to regional conflict

The fair’s 20th edition will be rescheduled to mid-May and have a “more focused and flexible format”, as Iranian strikes in the UAE show no signs of abating [...]

Dalí painting that inspired Schiaparelli dress to be shown in UK for first time

“Necrophiliac Spring” was owned by the Italian fashion designer and led her to create the Tears Dress, one of her most famous creations [...]

British Museum did not remove Palestine from labels due to pressure campaign, museum sources say—as backlash continues

Some scholars however have questioned the wording used in the new labels in the Ancient Levant and Egyptian galleries [...]

Comment | Why doesn't Tefaf Maastricht move to Brussels?

The out-of-the-way Maastricht offers travel complications and inferior accommodation—but its intimate size is its advantage [...]

Comment | Climate change is forcing tough choices—how much heritage can we save before it is too late?

As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever [...]

Exhibition explores how the US shaped Joan Miró—and he it

Works by the Catalan master will be shown alongside works by American contemporaries at Washington, DC’s Phillips Collection [...]

The new New Museum: now with twice the space

The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon [...]

Reimagining communities: inside the Hong Kong International Cultural Summit

As cultural leaders from across the world meet in Hong Kong, we speak to three of the key figures at the city's West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) to find out [...]

Helen Legg appointed artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts

Currently director of Tate Liverpool, Legg will be responsible for the RA’s exhibitions, collection and public programme [...]

Understanding Nifty Gateway’s demise is paramount for NFTs’ fans and critics alike

The platform never reached its goal of converting one billion people into NFT collectors, but its rise and fall revealed much about the digital art ecosystem [...]

US congress passes revamped Holocaust recovery bill that sidesteps many legal defences

The Hear Act of 2025, which now only needs president Trump’s signature to become law, extends and expands the reach of its 2016 predecessor [...]

Nearly 200 Venice Biennale participants sign letter demanding cancellation of Israeli pavilion

Signatories include artists Alfredo Jaar, Yto Barrada, Rosana Paulino, Meriem Bennani and Cauleen Smith, along with curators such as Binna Choi and Carles Guerra [...]

New book shows why physical maps have an important role to play in our digital world

A passionate cartographer reveals fascinating histories—and what we lose with the demise of printed maps [...]

‘I don’t like that idea’: outgoing Tate director Maria Balshaw enters debate on museum admission charges

Balshaw says a proposed 'tourist tax' would be a better source of revenue for UK museums [...]

500-year-old Aztec ritual offering uncovered in Mexico City

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion [...]

Next edition of Getty's PST Art initiative will focus on Los Angeles’s connections around the Pacific Rim

The initiative’s fourth edition in 2030 will be devoted to transpacific cultural exchange, with grant applications opening to institutions across eight Southern California counties this June [...]

Jointly held Singapore fairs bring Southeast Asian art 'into a larger global dialogue'

For the first time, curated Southeast Asian boutique fair S.E.A. Focus was folded into Art SG [...]

Endemic leaking problems at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater finally come to an end

A $7m conservation project has focused on mitigating the engineering issues of the architect's masterpiece as well as preparing the building for a changing climate [...]

Tate announces major David Hockney, Edvard Munch and Sonia Boyce exhibitions for 2027

The programme, announced as Tate’s director Maria Balshaw departs, will also feature shows for the Algerian modernist painter Baya and the British artist Thomas Gainsborough, alongside a group exhibition exploring [...]

Can Tefaf Maastricht keep up with the experience economy?

The venerable fair continues to offer a trove of historic treasures, but that might not be enough to draw in today's wealthy buyers [...]

The rise and fall of ‘buy-one, give-one’ art sales

A once-popular mechanism that allowed collectors to secure an in-demand work if they gifted a second to an institution, market shifts have made "bogos" less viable [...]

So you think you can sell art? Reality TV show hunts for next Larry, Jay or Peggy

New BBC series will guide amateur dealers through the art market [...]

Damien Hirst offers his hot take on art dealers

Speaking on a podcast, the artist likened art galleries to estate agents [...]

Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90

Beyond his famous chair design, Friedeberg created a singular world of ornament, architecture, and irony [...]

Comment | Cow in MSCHF project survives, but should the project have happened at all?

The artist collective allowed buyers to decide the fate of a cow’s life (thankfully they chose a sanctuary over the slaughterhouse), but the intended awareness-raising gave way to polarising digital [...]

Art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the art market, Sydney Biennale—podcast

Ben Luke talks to Sarvy Geranpayeh about the continuing violence in the Middle East, discusses the new Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report with its author Clare McAndrew, [...]

Dealer Yves Bouvier to stand trial in Paris over missing Picassos

The trial comes after the conclusion of a decade-long investigation into the alleged disappearance of works belonging to Picasso's stepdaughter [...]

The story behind Iran’s only Van Gogh: ‘At Eternity’s Gate'

Once owned by a US vice president, the print was acquired by the Shah’s wife and is now at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art [...]

Not just dollars, euros and pounds: Tefaf speaker sets out art’s deep value for wellbeing

The Tefaf Summit during the fair in Maastricht explores the impact of art beyond economics, and how culture’s role in public policy can be rethought [...]

Frida Fever rises again: Netflix planning Kahlo and Diego Rivera drama

The streaming giant’s forthcoming series is based on a recent biographical novel [...]

Victor Vasarely’s crumbling Aix legacy to be restored

The family of the Op Art pioneer hopes to secure a new chapter for his foundation in Aix-en-Provence after years of neglect and funding woes [...]

Dingo-related work at Sydney Biennale takes on new resonance following backpacker death

Cannupa Hanska Luger was unaware of the news of a young tourist dying on an island off Australia’s eastern coast while he was making “Volume III White Bay Power Station” [...]

Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums

The artist was as much an explorer of gender, class and body image as of saucy pleasure [...]

Tefaf Maastricht: the wish list

From a painting by a leading Australian Indigenous artist to a bejewelled book of Shakespeare poems, a Modernist beach buggy and a fine Greek marble, here are some of the [...]

Glassblower and porcelain heir Paul Arnhold on the art he loves to collect

The New Yorker's personal collection spans centuries, from ancient Etruscan stone works to paintings by Salman Toor [...]

Dresden museum wins Tefaf award for Rubens restoration

The Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund has been awarded to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister for its restoration of Rubens‘s ‘The Boar Hunt’ [...]

'What does the second F in Tefaf truly stand for?'

The Maastricht show, which has been described as “a bit like the Davos of the art world”, has a unique position in the fair world—as well as being a place [...]

Comment | Why museum leadership needs to decentralise