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At Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, Colour Cosmetics Navigate Caution and Creativity

As the global beauty industry convened in Bologna for the world’s largest beauty trade fair, panellists from NellyRodi, Florasis, and Cénée joined BoF’s Shenel Wickramaratne to explore how colour cosmetics [...]

How Gen Z’s Personal Style Obsession Is Changing Fashion

The permanence of digital footprints and a lack of real-life community have historically crippled Gen Z’s sense of individuality when getting dressed. But they’re increasingly preoccupied by what constitutes singularly [...]

How Selfridges Plans to Lock in the 1%

The UK department store chain’s new ‘members club’ — the biggest renovation to its London flagship in a decade — merges private shopping, hospitality and a stage for brand experiences [...]

Help Define the Most Desirable Fashion and Beauty Companies of 2026

BoF launches its annual survey to identify the industry’s top employers and explore how AI and new career standards are reshaping the global fashion and beauty workforce. [...]

Fear of God CEO Exits Label

Bastien Daguzan is stepping away from the brand founded by Jerry Lorenzo as it eliminates the chief executive role. [...]

Zane Li, Marcelle Barbosa Among Fashion Trust US 2026 Award Recipients

The fourth annual gathering awarded five emerging labels with grant money and mentorship at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Tuesday. [...]

Can H&M Prove Sustainability is a Growth Engine? | The Debrief

BoF correspondent Shayeza Walid joins The Debrief to unpack H&M’s unprecedented climate progress paired with a dip in sales — and whether the Swedish giant can escape being slotted in [...]

How to Bring Back a Beloved Watchmaker: The Resurrection of Universal Genève

Breitling CEO Georges Kern wanted to add more to his company’s offering to satisfy its private equity ownership. So he dug into history to find one of the watch collecting [...]

Galeries Lafayette Q1 Sales Stable Despite Middle East War

The French department store chain, which plans to invest 260 million euros through 2030, saw a 14 percent uptick in sales from Middle Eastern clients in March as overall sales [...]

Swatch Urges Shareholders to Vote Against Activist Investor’s Bid for Board Seat

The luxury watch owner has urged shareholders to reject activist investor Steven Wood’s renewed board bid, as it moves to defend its governance and luxury brand strategy. [...]

Indian Jeweller Titan Reports Surging Domestic Sales

The jewellery maker, known for its Tanishq and CaratLane brands, posted a 42 percent rise in quarterly domestic sales as consumers ‌in ⁠the world’s most populous country splurged on gold. [...]

Italian Court Lifts Controls Placed on Valentino Unit Over Labour Practices

The special administration imposed on a ‌unit of the luxury group over labour practices of its Chinese-owned subcontractors has ended early. [...]

Puig, Estée Lauder Founding Families to Meet for Combination Talks

The founding ‌families of the Spanish firm and US cosmetics giant will meet this week in New York to negotiate the terms of a potential business combination, a source said. [...]

How War Is Exposing Beauty’s Packaging Problem

From soaring plastic costs to aluminium supply shocks, the US-Israel war with Iran is unraveling the beauty industry’s overreliance on plastic packaging and infrastructural gap for affordable and scalable climate-friendly [...]

The Fashion Jobs Where AI Shines, and Where It Struggles

Companies have raced to put large language models to use for jobs from generating images to writing code, but to get the best use of this innovative form of AI, [...]

Altuzarra Names Marta Lastra as CEO

The former president of Altuzarra will replace founder and creative director Joseph Altuzarra as chief executive. Altuzarra has appointed Marta Lastra as chief executive, the company announced Wednesday. [...]

Levi’s Boosts Full-Year Outlook on Strong Sales; CFO to Retire

Company veteran Harmit Singh’s departure marks a major change for Levi. [...]

India’s Nykaa Sees Fastest Quarterly Revenue Growth in Three Years

Indian fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa said on Monday it expects net revenue to grow in the late-20 percent ‌range in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, its fastest in three years. [...]

Once Sweden’s Top Company, H&M’s Struggling to Sell Its Rebound Story

From its 2015 peak, the fast-fashion brand has lost roughly half its market value, erasing tens of billions of dollars in equity. [...]

Worldview | Nykaa Confirms Acquisition Talks With Deepika Padukone’s 82°E

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Vietnam’s textile exports, India’s gold prices and China’s new e-commerce guidelines. [...]

Can the World Cup Solve Nike’s Problems?

Rumoured upcoming collaborations for Nike show how deeply the brand is investing in the World Cup this year. With football fashion on the rise, it’s worth wondering if this run [...]

How Fragrantica Became the Internet’s Perfume Bible

One of the highest-traffic beauty sites in the world, the perfume directory has become a magnet for both brand awareness and controversy. [...]

Nykaa in Talks to Acquire Deepika Padukone’s 82°E

The retailer confirmed negotiations to acquire a majority stake in the clean skincare brand, as it looks to further consolidate its foothold in the booming Indian beauty market. [...]

Dispatches From Shanghai: Inside China’s New Luxury Landscape

On his first visit to Shanghai since before the pandemic, Imran Amed finds a market that has fundamentally changed — from status spending to stealth wealth, from megabrands to homegrown [...]

Unpacking Saks Global’s Post-Bankruptcy Plan

The luxury giant has filed its roadmap to exit Chapter 11 this summer, confirming it will not sell Bergdorf Goodman. Under the new deal, bankruptcy lenders will take full ownership, [...]

The Art of Memory-Making: Inside The Ritz-Carlton’s Experience-Led Strategy

Luxury travel is being reshaped by a demand for discretion, individuality and deeper connection. In an interview with Tina Edmundson, president of luxury at Marriott International, BoF examines how The [...]

Italian Denim Designer Adriano Goldschmied Dies at 82

Remembered as the ‘godfather of denim,’ Goldschmied launched brands including Diesel, Agolde and AG during his decades-long career. [...]

Beauty’s New Challenger Conglomerate Has Always Been Here

By shedding its food and ice cream businesses, Unilever is betting big on beauty. But matching the scale, valuation and category depth of rivals like L’Oréal and The Estée Lauder [...]

Sportswear Brands Have Tough Decisions to Make Around the War in the Middle East

Surging oil prices are raising questions about the structure of supply chains and when companies will need to pass increased costs onto consumers. [...]

Medicines Regulator to Investigate UK Peptide Clinics

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said clinics are not permitted to make medicinal claims for the peptide treatments offered by their service. [...]

The US-Iran War’s Bill Comes Due

A US inflation report will offer a key glimpse at how the conflict is impacting consumers. Elsewhere, Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing reports results. [...]

The Public Isn’t Buying What Nike Is Selling. Can That Change?

Nike CEO Elliott Hill publicly exuded plenty of confidence during the company’s crucial third-quarter earnings call. That didn’t stop the brand’s stock from hitting an 11-year low. [...]

Etsy Bans Fur From Its Listings

Effective Aug. 11, the e-commerce marketplace will pull any remaining animal fur products from its website. [...]

The Game of ‘Selling’ Sustainability

From H&M’s bid to draw shoppers in with its sustainable positioning, Shein’s new circularity study and a campaign showing athleisure can be made using clean energy, fashion is trying to [...]

Nike’s Ann Miller Talks the Brand’s Final Four Takeover

Nike is all over the place at the Final Four. The brand sponsors each Final Four team in the men’s and women’s tournaments, with the lone exception of South Carolina [...]

Faye McLeod on Luxury World-Building, One Window at a Time | The BoF Podcast

From a childhood accident in the desert to 16 years conceptualising and creating Louis Vuitton’s windows, Faye McLeod joins Imran Amed to trace the emotional origins of her creative process [...]

Maison Margiela’s Upmarket Fragrance Play

The L’Oréal-licensed fashion line is launching a new 'haute perfumery' collection, in addition to its more masstige Replica line, to capture an emerging class of scent ‘connoisseurs.' [...]

Exclusive: Can This Skims’ Alum Make Columbia Sportswear Cool?

Scott Lloyd previously led growth at celebrity disruptor brands like Skims and Savage X Fenty. Now he’s tasked with bringing the same magic to the 88-year-old outdoor label. [...]

Nordstrom’s Sales Return to 2019 Levels After Deal to Go Private

The Nordstrom family and Mexican department-store chain El Puerto de Liverpool SAB closed a deal to acquire the company in May in an all-cash transaction valued at about $6.25 billion. [...]

Saks Global Nabs $500 Million in Post-Bankruptcy Financing

The department store group aims to exit Chapter 11 by summer with a leaner store footprint and repaired vendor relationships. [...]

Maria Laura Neves Appointed Editor in Chief of Vogue Brasil

Neves first assumed the editor-in-chief role on an interim basis following Paula Merlo’s exit from the magazine in late February. [...]

What Beauty’s Richest Customers Want

Increasingly, beauty brands that target high-net-worth individuals are not competing against their Sephora shelfmates. They’re competing against luxury experiences or goods, like a stay at the Amangiri or a trip [...]

Tuckernuck and Renfold Brands Are Hiring on BoF Careers

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

What Will Be the Next Aesop?

The L’Oréal-owned brand has grown considerably since becoming known for its cult-cool hand soap, leaving room for challengers like Evolvetogether, Commune and Sangre de Fruta to take its place. [...]

Carven Design Director Mark Thomas Exits Brand

Thomas is leaving the historic French fashion house, owned by Chinese group Icicle, after a year in the position. [...]

Kering Shake-Up Reaches Jeweller DoDo as CEO Exits

DoDo chief Teejana Beenessreesingh has left the company after less than a year in the role, Kering confirmed to BoF as the French group sharpens its focus on its jewellery [...]

Online Resale Is Booming. Why Are So Many Users Unhappy?

Global secondhand sales are hitting record highs, but the platforms driving the boom are increasingly alienating some sellers with low payouts and logistical issues. [...]

Groupe Dynamite Inc. Sees Shares Jump on Strong Outlook

Revenue for the Canadian parent company of Garage jumped by 45 percent from a year ago to $284 million in the period ended Jan. 31, beating analysts’ expectations. [...]

Estée Lauder, Puig Advance Talks to Combine in Mostly Stock Deal

The beauty conglomerates are discussing a deal that would consist mostly of stock and could be formally announced within weeks. [...]

In Shanghai, the Martens-Margiela Synchronicity

Glenn Martens staged an opulent outing that underscored the depth of his connection to Maison Margiela, but the designer may have found his comfort zone too early, writes Angelo Flaccavento. [...]

The art of technology jostles for position in venues both new and historic

New and old institutions in New York, pop-up show of video art in Los Angeles and moving-image artist’s archive crystallise the unique pressures that come with showing and preserving art [...]

The artist who blocked an Ice projectile with her drawing board during protests

Izzy Brourman had been documenting anti-Ice protests in Minneapolis when she became part of the story [...]

April Book Bag: from a Matthew Wong catalogue to a history of dogs in art

Our round-up of the latest art publications [...]

Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art

We speak to the author of a new book that looks at how making prints has been vital for many famous artists [...]

The story of London's Great Exhibition, as seen through the eyes of artists

The Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive National Art Library provides a rich source for a new angle on the ambitious project in Julius Bryant's latest book [...]

A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran’s artists

Shiva Zahed Gallery, which opened in February, will focus on contemporary artists—but war in Iran poses a major obstacle, even after the announcement of a ceasefire [...]

A book exploring the evolution of J.M.W. Turner’s positions on slavery

The publication examines the journey from the artist’s early patronage, paid for by plantation money, to his depiction of a massacre in “The Slave Ship” [...]

‘It’s essential for understanding what is going on in Ukraine’: new exhibition explores wartime limb loss

Nikita Kadan's Kyiv show emphasises Ukrainians’ “optimism of will” after four years of war [...]

George Costakis, collector and saviour of Soviet avant-garde art, celebrated with Athens exhibition

The anniversary show features works by Malevich, Popova and more, which Costakis rescued from potential oblivion [...]

London galleries Edel Assanti and Emalin both announce expansions

While Edel Assanti's second space will join a cluster forming in St. James's, Emalin will take over the Helmet Row location formerly occupied by Modern Art [...]

Art Cologne heads to the beach with revived Mallorca edition

Nearly two decades after its short-lived debut, the venerable German fair returns to Palma’s newly energised art scene with a strong showing of local galleries [...]

A Brush With... Lorna Simpson—podcast

Lorna Simpson talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work [...]

Paying tribute to storied printmaker Kenneth Tyler at the IFPDA Print Fair

On the occasion of the publication of "Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1986–2001", the National Gallery of Australia is celebrating the printmaker’s legacy and ongoing influence at the New York fair [...]

Native Americans created dice more than 12,000 years ago, study finds

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe [...]

‘The subject demanded a more restrained approach’: Carlos Rolón on revisiting the 1966 uprising in Chicago's Humboldt Park

The Chicagoan artist’s solo exhibition at 65Grand documents the Puerto Rican community, where he lives, through intricate, monochrome drawings, found material sculpture and more [...]

Our pick of the best museum and gallery shows to see in Chicago this spring

From Seoul-born artist Dabin Ahn’s first solo show with Document to dancehall and reggaetón at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [...]

Artists respond to the continuing toll of colonialism in the Americas

A landmark show at Wrightwood 659 features works by more than 35 contemporary Latin American artists [...]

Did the US Holocaust Memorial Museum self-censor to preempt Trump’s wrath?

Two former museum employees point to quiet changes related to programming and language that they think are decidedly telling [...]

London’s National Gallery announces architects for new £350m wing

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House [...]

Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sends message of ‘preventive peace’ on digital billboards around the world

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities [...]

Lalanne mirrors owned by Yves Saint Laurent and a classic Diane Arbus photo: our pick of the April auctions

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month [...]

Gods, emperors and eagles restored in Blenheim Palace roof-rescue mission

The crumbling roof of Winston Churchill’s birthplace has been fixed in a £12m conservation project that the restorers hope will preserve the 18th-century country house for the next 300 years [...]

Museum acquisitions round-up: Andy Warhol in an apron, a solid-silver relief and Christo's luggage rack

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

Milan’s contemporary art credentials further bolstered by arrival of Paris Internationale

The cutting-edge French art fair is the latest to join an expanding cohort of global players opening in Italy [...]

A renewed focus on rigour and connection at Expo Chicago

The fair’s 2026 edition is the first to be helmed by new director Kate Sierzputowski, who has widened its institutional outreach through local and regional collaborations [...]

Judge rules dealer David Nahmad must return $30m Nazi-looted Modigliani

The case was decided in New York after 11 years of court battles [...]

Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists [...]

Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo

The fate of the 4,000 objects—including works by Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Martin Puryear and Edra Soto—remains unclear [...]

Art Institute of Chicago’s first Norman Rockwell acquisition is a home run

The museum has acquired the beloved US illustrator’s ‘The Dugout’, his 1948 painting of Chicago Cubs players [...]

Irreconcilable differences: Canadian cultural tourism to the US experiences a steep decline

A significant number of Canadians are shunning their neighbours to the south, a phenomenon felt most acutely by smaller museums and those along the border [...]

Monumental 37ft-long Indian scroll goes on public view for the first time at Yale Center for British Art

After two years of conservation, the 19th-century Lucknow scroll is on show in New Haven, Connecticut [...]

Canada returns 11 artefacts to Turkey in the first repatriation between the countries

The manuscript pages, prints and calligraphy had been seized by Canadian authorities as they arrived in Vancouver from Istanbul [...]

Smithsonian’s governing body quietly losing members

Two people finished their terms on the institution’s Board of Regents in early March and have yet to be replaced [...]

Artist Ali Cherri files war crimes complaint in France over Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed his parents

The airstrike killed seven people in a residential building in central Beirut that independent researchers have found to have no clear military function [...]

Santiago museum, set on fire during 2020 protests, reopens

The works of Chile’s most famous folk artist, singer and composer return to the Violeta Parra Museum, which now has enhanced security [...]

The Louvre’s new director is inheriting a troubled, traumatised museum—can he repair the damage?

Christophe Leribault, the former director of the Château de Versailles, faces a “derelict” infrastructure at the Paris museum and the fallout from last year’s devastating theft [...]

Christie’s to sell an almost unknown Van Gogh double-sided drawing

These were sketches for paintings which were never completed - or are lost [...]

Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke discusses the UK government’s response to a report about the future of Arts Council England, talks to the curator of a new Raphael exhibition [...]

Arts organisation enlists celebrities in fight to save Manhattan church

The Center at West Park has been marshalling support from famous actors led by Mark Ruffalo to stop the demolition of West Park Presbyterian Church [...]

Arts and heritage organisations largely exempted from new UK regulations on memberships

Representatives for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Trust and the Tate had warned that the legislation could have severely impacted their funding [...]

Gagosian chooses Paris location to present three important late paintings by Francis Bacon

The artist had a deep relationship with the French capital [...]

Ancient golden helmet recovered after Dutch museum heist

The helmet and two golden bracelets, belonging to the eastern European Dacian civilisation, were returned as part off a court case against the alleged thieves [...]

Unesco grants enhanced protection to 39 Lebanese heritage sites as war escalates

The cultural body has also unlocked more than $100,000 in emergency funding for urgent operations on the ground [...]

Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena

The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others [...]

Keep it in the family: how Johannes Vermeer’s paintings remained out of view for so long

In an exclusive extract from Andrew Graham-Dixon’s new biography, we learn how many of the Dutch Old Master's works stayed in one family for years [...]

An expert's guide to Alexander Calder: six must-read books on the US sculptor

The best Calder publications, from a comprehensive two-volume biography to a children’s book about his moveable circus—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer [...]

A brush with… Karen Archey, head of curatorial at Düsseldorf's K20 and K21 museums