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River Island Plans to Close 33 Stores, Putting Hundreds of Jobs at Risk

CEO Ben Lewis said the British fashion company would try to keep [job losses] to a minimum.’ [...]

Giorgio Armani to Miss Runway Shows As He’s ‘Recovering’ at Home

The Italian fashion designer will follow the shows remotely while menswear head Leo Dell’Orco will greet guests on Saturday and Monday in his stead. [...]

‘Transform or Die’: Can a Turnaround Expert Turn Kering Around?

Luca De Meo’s appointment as the French group’s chief executive is an admission of the seriousness of the crisis the company is facing, as well as a signal of its [...]

EU Ditches Plans for Anti-Greenwashing Rules

The European Commission is abandoning regulation that would have required companies to back up green claims following pressure from conservative lawmakers. [...]

The BoF Podcast | Tracee Ellis Ross: Understanding the Diversity of Humanity is Good Business

Tracee Ellis Ross shares her journey from Hollywood actress to entrepreneur with BoF founder and CEO Imran Amed, detailing the systemic changes she’s driving in the haircare industry. [...]

Is Fashion Stuck in the Archives?

At Pitti Uomo, there was a sense of nostalgia that felt both backward looking and progressive, reports Angelo Flaccavento. [...]

Lessons in Make-Or-Break Costuming From the Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy Backlash

The online ire over the initial peeks at Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series about the tragic love story of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy is a case study on [...]

Meta Launches $399 Oakley AI Smart Glasses

Meta introduces new Oakley smart glasses, expanding beyond Ray-Ban, targeting athletes and leveraging AI capabilities. [...]

Pandora Is Hiring on BoF Careers

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

Opinion: Members Clubs Just Aren’t What They Used to Be

A new generation of private clubs has commodified elitism, argues Allison Schrager. [...]

And It Was All Yellow…

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s precise shade of blonde generated a lot of press this week, but online the late style icon’s hair drama is getting upstaged — by Jennifer Garner. [...]

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Drops Out of Bid For Revolution Beauty

The British fashion group has decided not to go ahead with an offer to buy the ailing cosmetics brand, the company said Thursday. [...]

Luxury Counterfeiters Are Outsmarting the Industry

Purveyors of secondhand luxury goods may be losing the fight against increasingly sophisticated counterfeiters. Do customers care? [...]

Temu US Sales Plunge 25% Amid Tariff Barrage

Temu’s US sales are declining due to significant cuts in advertising spending, a direct consequence of new tariffs, while Shein’s sales have begun to recover. [...]

BoF Live | Rethinking Success Metrics for Brand Ambassadors

Join us on Wednesday, July 2 at 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT for our next #BoFLIVE. [...]

As Kering’s Fashion Cools, Pomellato Heats Up

Even as demand for luxury goods stalls, Milanese jeweller Pomellato is gaining ground by appealing to self-purchasing women and expanding into high jewellery — a welcome win for Kering as [...]

Umit Benan Is Back

With a new Davide De Giglio-backed venture offering ‘bespoke prêt-à-porter,’ the master tailor is once again in the spotlight and will unveil a new collection and retail concept on Friday [...]

How Prestige Beauty Customers Define Value Today

At The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2025, Unilever Prestige’s CEO, Mary Carmen Gasco-Buisson, shares how shifting consumer expectations around value are reshaping prestige beauty, in conversation with BoF’s chief [...]

Opinion: Luxury Is More Resilient Than the Market Suggests

The luxury industry is facing another lost year, according to Bain’s latest luxury update, but investors are being too gloomy on the sector’s long-term prospects, argues Andrea Felsted. [...]

What I’m Looking Forward to at Our Next Executive Roundtable in London

Executive Members are invited to join senior correspondents Sarah Kent and Sheena Butler-Young, along with executive editor Brian Baskin for an informal breakfast discussing Selling to Consumers in Uncertain Times. [...]

Luxury Sector Will Continue to Slip, Bain Forecasts

The market is on pace to contract 2 percent to 5 percent in 2025 as consumption remains soft across key categories — particularly leather goods, makeup and watches — according [...]

China’s Extended 618 Shopping Festival Fails to Stir Excitement

E-tailers JD.com and Tmall-owner Alibaba have not disclosed the event’s overall sales figures for years, but analysts warn that a recent pause in some government subsidy programmes could weigh on [...]

Swiss Watch Exports Slump in May as US Tariffs Shake Market

Exports to the US, the sector’s single-biggest market, were down just over 25 percent, underscoring the impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies. [...]

Dealers at Art Basel Sidestep Politics, Reap Rewards

The fair featured mostly safe, apolitical works, which appeared to play to the mood of buyers. [...]

Bernard Arnault Grapples With the Biggest Slump in LVMH’s History

The luxury goods maker is reeling from a sharp downturn in the €364 billion industry — and questions about succession are growing louder. [...]

LA’s Protests Have Ended But Fashion Can’t Shake Off Its Fear

Following the ICE raids and a week of protests, the city’s fashion employers continue to fret about what’s to come as the White House continues its deportation campaign. [...]

Amorepacific’s Road to Success

The K-beauty corporation behind brands like Laneige, Aestura and Sulwhasoo sees global expansion and ongoing innovation as keys to growth, chief executive Sean Kim explains in The State of Fashion: [...]

Nike Delays Launch for New Brand With Kim Kardashian’s Skims

Despite the delays, Nike still expects to release NikeSkims products sometime this year, Bloomberg reported. [...]

Lululemon Is Cutting 150 Corporate Employees After Review

The impacted roles are at the retailer’s store support centres, according to a statement from the company. [...]

Francesco Risso Exits Marni

The Italian designer crafted a colourful, DIY-inflected universe during 10 years at the OTB-owned brand. [...]

Ben Gorham to Exit Byredo

The founder of the Swedish fragrance label is stepping down as Puig completes its takeover. [...]

Fashion Castoffs Dumped in Protected Wetlands in Ghana

Shipments of unwanted old clothes from UK and European brands have turned a conservation site into a dumping ground, according to a new investigation. [...]

How Homme Plissé Fits Into Issey Miyake’s New Menswear Strategy

The Japanese brand’s fastest-growing line is ceding the Paris fashion week spotlight to IM Men and taking a ‘slow road’ with traveling events powered by a new ‘open studio’ strategy, [...]

Shein Is Struggling to Clean Up Its Dirty Image

The company’s latest sustainability report shows it’s still fashion’s most polluting player, with planet-warming emissions that far outstrip those of rivals and help make the brand a target for politicians [...]

Customers Want Beauty Brands to Prove Their Worth

As beauty customers grow more selective and cost-conscious, brands must demonstrate a clear and ownable value proposition, regardless of price, according to the BoF-McKinsey State of Fashion: Beauty report. [...]

Strategic Reinvention: Growing a Beauty Brand with Staying Power

At The Business of Beauty Global Forum, Front Row’s chief revenue officer Christopher Skinner and Tatcha’s chief marketing officer Nicole Frusci joined BoF’s Alice Gividen on stage to explore building [...]

Beautycounter Would Like To Reintroduce Itself

Back under the ownership of founder Gregg Renfrew, the beauty label will relaunch on June 25 as Counter, keeping its clean formulations and giving up its MLM-style compensation model in [...]

New York’s Fashion Workers Act Set to Go into Effect June 19

The Model Alliance, New York State Department of Labor and fashion industry stakeholders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the new law, which establishes regulations for fair treatment of models — including, [...]

Clothing Retailer Dynamite Raises Prices 9% Amid Trade Tensions

The women’s fast-fashion retailer plans to raise prices at twice the rate of inflation in the future. [...]

How Dubai Is Defying the Luxury Downturn

Last week, Zegna staged a runway show in Dubai the emirate, following in the footsteps of Roberto Cavalli, Armani and Chanel. The emirate remains the most established hub for luxury [...]

The Debrief | When Fashion Lost Its Voice

As immigration raids in Los Angeles spur large-scale protests, the fashion industry has remained largely silent. The Debrief explores the reasons behind the muted response and the tangible actions brands [...]

US Retail Sales Post Biggest Drop in Four Months

US retail sales declined more than anticipated last month, though clothing sales rose by 0.1 percent between April and May. [...]

Dôen Raises Series A Funding Led by Silas Capital

The funding round marks the first time the Los Angeles-based womenswear brand raised outside capital after its initial $1 million seed round. The new capital will go towards its retail [...]

Asos CFO to Depart After Just 14 Months

The British retailer’s director of group finance, Aaron Izzard, will replace outgoing CFO Dave Murray. [...]

Worldview | Shein Redirects Listing Plans to Hong Kong

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Cambodia’s apparel exports lift and China’s consumer boom. [...]

Why DTC Is Finally Investing in Brand Marketing

Digitally native brands that were once known for rampant social media ads — from Rothy’s to Everlane — are going all in on storytelling that boosts loyalty and creates long [...]

Akt London, Yse Beauty and Ruka Are the Winners of The Business of Beauty Global Awards Breakthrough Track

Akt London, Yse Beauty and Ruka were the young brands that captured the Global Awards jury’s attention. [...]

Coty Shares Surge on Report Company Looking to Sell Off Units

The American cosmetics giant's share price surged 13 percent following a report in Women's Wear Daily that the company is considering selling its luxury and consumer divisions as separate units. [...]

Eytys Is Back From Bankruptcy

Max Schiller is relaunching the cult Swedish label after bringing on his brother, Acne Studios co-owner Mikael Schiller, as investor and chairman of the board. [...]

AI Personal Shopping Tool Alta Raises $11 Million

The artificial intelligence-powered styling platform raised a seed round with funding from investment firms including Arnault family-backed Aglaé Ventures. [...]

Romania secures hold on 'stolen' El Greco as court filings reveal Dmitry Rybolovlev is its owner

The work was pulled from a Christie's auction following claims by the Romanian government that it had been unlawfully removed from the country in 1947 [...]

'I'm a container for my own spirit': Nickola Pottinger on her show of sculptures at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

The artist's first solo museum exhibition explores her personal and ancestral history through folkloric Jamaican imagery and the material stuff of family memory [...]

Italy’s leading archaeological museum uses young creatives’ press shots without payment

National Archaeological Museum of Naples accused of “marketing with unpaid photos” [...]

Knockin’ on Halcyon’s door: Bob Dylan's latest artworks on show in London gallery

"Point Blank" exhibition features 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022 [...]

The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art includes works by artists such as Dia al-Azzawi, Jewad Selim and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat [...]

Climate protester splashes pink paint on Picasso work at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The activist from Last Generation Canada said “more resources have been put in place to secure and protect this artwork than to protect living, breathing people” [...]

The tale of a French psychiatric asylum that harboured Second World War resistance fighters—and where patients became artists

Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles’s treatment of mental illness at the institution included art—and was championed by Jean Dubuffet [...]

Amid geopolitical tensions, Pakistani and Indian art worlds unite in London exhibitions

During a time of conflict between the two countries, a number of shows are bridging the divide [...]

Revealed: how Van Gogh's nephew exchanged two of the artist's drawings for butter and bacon

The pair of works are now worth £1m, with one coming up for sale at Sotheby’s on 25 June [...]

Art Basel, human remains in Dutch museums, Eva Hesse—podcast

We ask The Art Newspaper's art market editor about the mood in Basel, discuss the Dutch museum tackling the difficult topic of human remains, and speak to Jo Applin, the [...]

Painted Roman plaster discovered in London may reveal name of interior decorator who lived almost 2,000 years ago

The name of the decorator may yet emerge from a huge jigsaw of fragments of found in Southwark, just south of the Thames [...]

London's pre-contemporary art market gets boost from two new summer events

Studiolo and Classic Art London seek to give fresh energy to a traditionally important time in the UK calendar [...]

Gaudi’s original vision for Casa Batlló has been restored

One of the most famous sites in Barcelona has been given a €3.5m makeover [...]

No more business-as-usual: Art Basel demonstrates how dealers can adapt to thrive

Galleries showing at the fair are responding to a shifting art market [...]

In Basel, alternative art fairs spring up in new places

Basel Social Club has moved to the Old Town, while a gallery takes over a villa [...]

Art Basel Diary: guests unwind in the Rhine, puppets rest in bunk beds and Bezos’s yacht gets hot

Plus: the art of football and an evening poetry reading [...]

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs convey the force of mankind’s reordering of the environment

A retrospective at the International Center of Photography in New York chronicles more than 40 years of the artist’s work [...]

Lesia Vasylchenko wins the PinchukArtCentre Prize

The video and installation artist donated her prize money to the Ukrainian armed forces [...]

In pictures: meet the newcomer galleries debuting at Art Basel

More than a dozen galleries are showing at Art Basel for the first time, all brimming with enthusiasm [...]

Francesco Bonami: ‘I like Basel as a city, everything is on a human scale’

The 2003 Venice Biennale curator has created an exclusive cartoon for The Art Newspaper [...]

Julian Charrière: ‘The deep sea is a phantasmagorical space’

The French Swiss artist—whose practice focuses on the Arctic, the oceans and the history of the Earth—finds connections with the kinetic art of Jean Tinguely in his latest solo exhibition [...]

So, after visiting Art Basel, you want to move to Switzerland—what next?

After a few days in peaceful, prosperous Basel, you might want to make your stay permanent. But becoming Swiss is no picnic [...]

‘To this day, I can’t get it out of my mind’: Tobias van Gils on missing out on Maurizio Cattelan's orchid

The founder of the Zurich-based investment firm MLT Capital recently launched an art foundation with his wife [...]

Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

Director of the 107-year-old institution aims for a new perspective with a reopening exhibition showcasing the work of three Black artists [...]

Taxidermists—prized by Damien Hirst—open museum in Amsterdam

The Art Zoo Museum will present the stuffed creations of Ferry van Tongeren and Jaap Sinke, who sold a collection to the YBA in 2016 [...]

Archaeologists confirm that limestone 'Venus of Kołobrzeg' found by a farmer in Poland is 6,000 years old

The female figurine is thought to be a depiction of the god of fertility, and will be displayed at the Polish Arms Museum [...]

Climate change is destroying Maine’s historic lighthouses

These unique monuments to a coastal way of life, some of them dating to the US’s colonial period, appear on the 2025 World Monuments Watch list alongside historic sites in [...]

Anxious collectors are increasingly turning to freeport havens, experts say

Tax-friendly freeports and free trade zones are gaining in popularity with those wishing to avoid tariffs and new EU regulations [...]

Pompidou moves in as Grand Palais reopens after £395m revamp

As the contemporary art museum begins a five-year renovation, the historic building steps in as its temporary home—testing a new, collaborative institutional model in the heart of Paris [...]

What does a so-called ‘buyer’s market’ look like at Art Basel?

Price reductions, negotiations and dealer “flexibility” are the order of the day [...]

Koons lobster snapped up amid day two sales at Art Basel

Works by Michael Armitage, Adrian Ghenie and Frank Bowling were also among the highest-priced pieces sold [...]

Design Miami announces 2025 international events and exhibitions programme

The fair will celebrate its 20th anniversary in cities including Seoul and Aspen [...]

Art Basel Diary: star brings K-pop magic, scents and sensibility, and Liam Gallagher’s romantic side

Plus: Participative VR exhibition has big names queueing, and in Italy truffles come before art [...]

Art Basel and Frieze set their sights on the next generation of visitors

Young people enjoy free entry to Art Basel this week, while Frieze keeps charges low for the under-12s [...]

Ahead of new fair in 2026, Qatar takes centre stage at Art Basel

The country’s cultural offensive also comes ahead of the opening of a clutch of museums [...]

In pictures: the best of the Liste art fair in Basel

Now in its third decade, the satellite fair has stayed true to its mission of showcasing young artists from often overlooked regions [...]

Ser Serpas: ‘I’m hoping I can add a bit of what I think is a healthy dose of unease’

In addition to scouring Basel’s streets for debris for her signature assemblages of found objects, the American artist is exhibiting a series of new paintings in her show at the [...]

Tanks, castles and Hodlers: Swiss foundation tackles a fervent collector’s legacy

Led by Bruno Stefanini's daughter, the Foundation for Art, Culture and History has been cleaning and cataloguing the property magnate’s vast collection since he died in 2018 [...]

‘I’ve been in the art world long enough to trust my eye’: Suzanne Syz on how she collects

The jewellery designer, who was friends with Warhol and Basquiat in the 1980s, discusses her favourite Giacometti and the infamous Warhol work she missed out on [...]

Beyond Surrealism: Basel show explores the many sides of Meret Oppenheim

The small exhibition at Hauser & Wirth nonetheless demonstrates the breadth of the artist's work [...]

Vitra Design Museum celebrates the enduring influence of egalitarian religious sect, the Shakers

A multi-institution exhibition explores the Shaker community’s impact on contemporary art and design [...]

A brush with… Rudolf Stingel — podcast

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

Tadao Ando’s only building in the Southern Hemisphere gets a five-year lifeline

The much-lauded temporary pavilion in Melbourne designed by the Japanese architect was facing an uncertain future [...]

Iran closes museums and moves artefacts to secure storage

According to local news reports, emergency protocols have been enacted to safeguard cultural objects and heritage sites amid conflict with Israel [...]

Cause for cheer at Art Basel as strong preview-day sales take many galleries by surprise

Dealers reported solid sales at the fair’s VIP preview, a good sign after a tough year in the art world [...]

Artist whose work addresses art world access is not in Basel—because his visa was denied

Richard Mudariki, the artist behind the ‘Art World Passport’, says his visa was rejected by the Swiss embassy in Pretoria, despite having two letters of invitation from Swiss organisations [...]

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