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Opinion: The Sneaker Bubble Is Bursting Around Investors

Off the field and outside of the gym, many consumers are rediscovering smarter footwear, writes Bloomberg’s Andrea Felsted. [...]

US Consumer Prices Rise by Most Since April in Broad Advance

In September, core goods prices rose by the most since January 2025, reflecting solid increases for apparel. [...]

Botswana Said to Near Agreement on Size of Its De Beers Stake

Ongoing talks between the nation’s government and Global Diamond Consortium are likely to see Botswana boost its stake in De Beers by 10 percent. [...]

Rolex and Gold Were for US and Not Trump, Swiss Trade Chief Says

The goods delivered last November by a business delegation seeking relief from Trump’s onerous tariffs became a matter of national controversy in Switzerland. [...]

Who’s to Blame for Bad Customer Service?

After Kelly Clarkson’s viral clash with a Brooklyn boutique, BoF’s Jessica Kwon and Cathaleen Chen join Sheena Butler-Young on The Debrief to unpack why customer service keeps failing shoppers — [...]

The Categories Where ‘Clean’ Still Matters

So-called “clean” skincare has lost its appeal as shoppers favour more clinically proven products. But in cosmetics and fragrance, the appetite is only growing. [...]

Galderma to Acquire ZO Skin Health for $1.5 Billion

The Swiss firm agreed to purchase the medical-grade skincare company from private equity firm Blackstone and the founding Obagi family to expand its US portfolio. [...]

Has Nike Done Lasting Damage to Jordan Brand?

Nike is reducing the number of Jordans it puts on the market as it tries to restore the brand’s exclusivity and pull it out of a slump. Experts say it [...]

Report: Beauty Ingredients Among Highest Risk for Human Rights Abuses

A new analysis of eight widely used cosmetics ingredients by Verisk Maplecroft found widespread exposure to child and forced labour risks, with palm oil, cocoa and shea nuts among the [...]

Why Is It Still So Painful to Shop in Stores?

Kelly Clarkson’s viral feud with an independent Brooklyn toy store has ignited debate over poor customer service, which experts say can be remedied with investment in training and employee motivation. [...]

Opinion: LVMH’s Struggles Are a Bad Look for Luxury

For LVMH and big bling to return to a more encouraging trajectory, China needs to show signs of improvement, writes Bloomberg’s Andrea Felsted. [...]

Joe Corré’s Light House Club Launches Pop-Up Spaces for Emerging Designers

Independent creatives can apply to utilise pop-up spaces at Light House to sell merchandise and meet with clientele. [...]

Can Culture Still Move the Needle in Sportswear?

At a time when Nike and Adidas are doubling down on sports and athletes, Under Armour is leaning further into partnerships with entertainers and influencers like Twitch streamer Rakai, whose [...]

Dongliang Wants to Be Luxury’s Gateway to China

The retailer’s rigorously curated and cultured approach has already made it stockist-of-choice for labels from The Row to Phoebe Philo. Now it aims to help Western brands build their own [...]

Worldview | Uniqlo-Owner Fast Retailing Eyes Mass Fashion Dominance

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features LVMH’s China Woes, Shanghai Fashion Week and India’s strong jewellery. [...]

Opinion: Why Beauty Needs Colour Again

The new book, ‘Colour Mode’, is part makeup guide, part editorial archive and part manifesto from the veteran fashion makeup artist. [...]

Givaudan Sales Beat Expectations on Fine Fragrance Strength

A surge in sales of scents for luxury perfumes and a continued recovery in flavours drove the Swiss firm’s organic sales growth clearly beyond market expectations in the third quarter, [...]

How Fashion Brands Get AI Visibility Right

Getting AI to understand a brand does not guarantee it will recommend it. Drawing on data from BoF Insights Brand Pulse, new analysis of 120 fashion brands reveals how companies [...]

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Boosts Position in Burberry

Frasers Group Plc now possesses over 7 percent of the British label’s voting rights, placing it on track to be the brand’s biggest investor. [...]

Riyadh Fashion Week Postponed Amid Regional Conflict

The event was due to begin Oct. 15, but no official schedule has been published. [...]

LVMH Fashion Sales Slip on China Weakness, Dimming Recovery Hopes

A decline in fashion and leather goods sales underscores the industry’s struggle to reignite shopper enthusiasm. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 Top 10 Shows of the Season

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

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 [...]

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. [...]

New documentary celebrates women pioneers in performance art

‘Acting Like Women’ is a deep dive into Los Angeles art and activism of the 1970s and 80s [...]

Suspects in Renoir paintings heist were planning separate robbery at Fondation Maeght, police chief says

Investigators have released details about the theft of two works by the French Impressionist after they were recovered from behind a concrete wall [...]

Mexican military retreats from plans to build enormous museum in a popular park

Following widespread opposition, including from Mexico City’s mayor, the plans to build a sprawling military museum in Bosque de Chapultepec are on hold while authorities seek an alternative site [...]

A brush with... Gabriel Orozco—podcast

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

In pictures: p(art)y people at the Frieze London VIP preview

Celebrities and art world glitterati descended on Regent’s Park today for an exclusive first look at Frieze London and Frieze Masters [...]

As art’s health benefits become even clearer, hospital curators get organised

Participants at a symposium in Arkansas shared examples of best practice in the burgeoning discipline [...]

'You think you have a good radar and then you realise it’s full of holes': collector Charles Asprey on what he has bought and why

The British collector, dealer and publisher on his craving for boutique fairs, his newest discovery and his favourite part of London—between Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell [...]

‘They’re not candid snapshots of me at all’: Issy Wood on her intimate self-portraits at London's National Portrait Gallery

The British-American painter discusses her complex relationship with her face [...]

New kids on the block: the young dealers who are shaking up the Old Masters market

Whether they are joining the family firm or striking out on their own, a growing number of younger professionals are smashing the stereotype of what an Old Master dealer looks [...]

Peter Nagy—Nature Morte gallery founder who transformed Indian contemporary art market—has died

The artist-dealer launched the careers of some of India’s greatest art stars working today [...]

House museum of Spanish ‘master of light’ Joaquín Sorolla reopens in Madrid

The Sorolla Museum launches building's new extension while the original historic building undergoes restoration [...]

Roll up, roll up! Exhibitions celebrate the splendour of the circus and the artists it inspired

Shows at Paris’s Musée de Montmartre and the Hepworth Wakefield celebrate the big top's enduring influence on artists [...]

Small is beautiful: boutique fairs bring fresh ideas to London’s Frieze Week

Several new fairs are debuting in the UK capital this year, while another changes venue [...]

Frieze London Diary: have your toilet cake and (don't) eat it, dig out your pennies in Bloomsbury, and spot the fashion legends

Plus: the Riviera comes to the West End and Magritte's cowboy phase [...]

Gothic church hosts Bagri Foundation’s first London show

Organisation dedicated to promoting Asian culture branches out into exhibitions with Nomin Zezegmaa’s massive batik installation in church near Regent's Park [...]

From Belgian diesel tanks to Ivory Coast medallions, PAD London fair offers an eclectic mix

The design fair's 18th edition enjoyed strong sales on its opening day [...]

Artist Gabrielle Goliath brings cancelled Venice Biennale work to London

The private foundation Ibraaz is showing ‘Elegy’, which was barred by the South African government because of a suite commemorating the Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada [...]

Gallery Climate Coalition’s ‘10% Of’ fundraising initiative returns to Frieze London for a second year

Scheme will see 13 galleries pledge a tenth of proceeds from a work to the charity [...]

Frieze Artist Award winner Theo Triantafyllidis’s spider sculpture aims to bring people together

The artist’s work at the London fair includes a multiplayer video game [...]

Venice Biennale closing celebration to feature aria from artist Tammy Nguyen’s first opera

Commissioned and produced by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the work explores nationhood and freedom [...]

Comment | Arts and culture belong in disaster recovery

The US must stop treating the things that help make communities as afterthoughts [...]

In Pictures: the best of Frieze Sculpture 2026

Curator Fatoş Üstek guides us through 11 monumental works on show this year in Regent's Park [...]

Thessaloniki’s 15th-century Hamza Bey Mosque reopens as arts centre after nearly 20-year conservation effort

The historic site will operate as a permanent exhibition space as well as a cultural centre, managed by the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) [...]

‘Sometimes the works you do not acquire stay with you just as strongly as the ones you do’: collector Irene Y. Panagopoulos on what she has bought and why

The Greek collector who heads her family’s shipping firm is showing works from her collection at the Hellenic Centre during Frieze London that reflect on perceptions of Greece past and [...]

Frieze Masters presents Modernism, observed through a queer lens

A new curatorial thread at the 2026 edition of the fair presents a visual history of how LGBTQ+ artists across the globe, from Bahman Mohassess to Ruth Bernhard, contributed to Modern [...]

Salman Toor’s Courtauld Gallery exhibition hopes to move on from 'joyous communion'

The New York-based Pakistani artist’s first European solo exhibition positions him at the forefront of the revival of narrative painting [...]

Malaysia’s contemporary art scene gains momentum with a new fair and nonprofit space

Kuala Lumpur's inaugural Art KL and the opening of Muara Arts will boost the country's burgeoning sector [...]

Ditching the doom scroll: UK exhibition explores social media obsession and ways to break free

“Compulsory Continuous Connectedness: Rest in a Networked World” at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea, England, looks at how being constantly online is affecting society [...]

Dutch museum returns ancient vase to Sicily after research uncovers ‘problematic’ provenance

Rogier Kalkers from Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson museum says he hopes the restitution will be a “stepping stone towards further collaboration” with Sicilian authorities [...]

Culture wars ramp up in Latin America as governments lurch to the right

Right-wing governments across the region are cutting cultural budgets and recasting the arts around conservative values [...]

‘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—and 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 [...]

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