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Opinion: Your $30 Jeans Are Running Out of Cheap Power

Bangladesh’s garment miracle was built on its reserves of cheap gas. Keeping the magic going will require finding a way to live without it, writes Bloomberg’s David Fickling. [...]

Can Nike’s New ‘Supershoe’ Give It a Much-Needed Win?

The beleaguered sportswear giant is hoping its Alphafly 4 model will bring some added shine to one of the few bright spots in its portfolio: its running category. [...]

Record Global Fibre Production Pushes Fashion’s Environmental Footprint Higher

Planet-warming emissions associated with the raw materials used to make fashion, footwear and home textiles have risen 30 percent since 2019, according to a new report. [...]

The Korean Challenger Taking on Global Giants

Goodai is the latest indie breakout to toy with trading in the public markets. [...]

How a Bangladeshi Garment Maker Is Surviving a War-Fuelled Energy Crisis

Conflict in the Middle East is ratcheting up energy costs and hampering production in many of fashion's key production hubs. [...]

Worldview | India’s Tata Faces Boardroom Battle Over Potential IPO

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Saudi trade routes disrupted by regional conflict, the closure of Turkish denim mill Orta and Cue’s collapse in Australia. [...]

India’s Fitness Boom Lifts Sportswear Market

As style-conscious Indians flock to a growing number of gyms, sports clubs and marathons, global activewear brands are stepping up expansion to capitalise on changing attitudes towards health and exercise. [...]

Novo Nordisk Looks to Target Hair Loss in Consumer Push

The maker of Ozempic and Wegovy seeks to expand its direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical business as rival Eli Lilly outpaces in weight-loss drugs. [...]

On Targets High-Teens Growth Through 2029

The Swiss brand revealed its plan to keep up its momentum with new products in sports such as golf and its Mbappé-supported entry into football ahead of its investor day [...]

Opinion: Star Athletes, Not Brands, Now Call the Shots

Kylian Mbappé had it all at Nike. But in a new world order where superstar athletes wield more cultural influence than brands, that simply wasn’t enough to retain him, writes [...]

Why Storytelling Is Brands’ Biggest E-Commerce Advantage

The brands earning shopper attention online are investing in content and cultural moments that entertain before they sell, finds BoF Insights and Amazon Fashion & Sports’ latest report ‘Inside Fashion [...]

Reference Festival to Host ‘Freie Kunst’ Event at Art Basel Paris

The event runs from Oct. 22 to 25 and will mix participants from art, fashion, music and technology as part of the festival’s tradition of a ‘radical and unhinged exchange [...]

Birtwell Does Burberry

But Daniel Lee’s latest collection for the British stalwart ultimately felt youthful, maybe even a kissin’ cousin to Coach on the other side of the Atlantic, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

London’s Lust for Life

Feelings, bared flesh and a freer hand… At London Fashion Week, designers reasserted what it means to be human, writes Susanna Lau. [...]

Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI Agent From Its Retail Site

The e-commerce giant prohibits other companies from deploying automated tools to shop its site and started blocking Meta’s Muse on Sunday night. [...]

The Logic Behind Donatella Versace’s Revolve Deal

The Italian icon is partnering with Revolve on a new fashion and beauty venture. [...]

Dior to Host Cruise Show in Shanghai

The LVMH-owned megabrand will show its Cruise 2028 line in the Chinese fashion capital on May 14, 2027. [...]

Oura Seeks $2.2 Billion in US IPO

The smart ring maker plans to market 50 million shares for $40 to $44 each, according to filings, which could value the company as high as $14.1 billion. [...]

Can Beauty Save Shein?

The beauty brand Sheglam has ambitions to become as big as its fast-fashion parent, if not bigger. Just don’t call it a ‘dupe’ brand. [...]

PR Agency CGC Launches Performance Media Division

Known for its premium beauty clients including Glossier and Hermès Beauty, the agency’s new division combines influencer marketing and AI insights. [...]

The Commercial Case for Cooling Bangladesh’s Garment Factories

Investments to reduce ‌heat stress for garment factory workers can pay for themselves within four years, a new report from Cornell University's Global Labor Institute finds. [...]

Botswana Seeks Bigger De Beers Stake

Diamonds have underpinned the African country's economy since their discovery there in 1967. [...]

Converse CEO Pledges Review Over Ad Critics Say Evoked KKK

The head of Converse promised to review internal processes and told employees he will make any necessary changes in an internal memo seen by Bloomberg. [...]

Inside Hong Kong’s Strategy to Become Asia’s Fashion ‘Super-Connector’

Following the third edition of Hong Kong Fashion Fest, BoF speaks to Drew Lai, the government-appointed commissioner for cultural and creative industries, about her strategy to make Hong Kong an [...]

Model Presley Gerber, Cindy Crawford’s Son, Dies Aged 27

The model had spoken publicly about a years-long struggle with depression and addiction. [...]

Inside De Beers London’s Plan to Rebrand Itself — and Diamonds

A cabochon-cut stone resembling a water droplet, recently introduced by De Beers London, is an unusual look for a diamond. CEO Emmanuelle Nodale sat down with BoF to explain how [...]

The (Larger) Problem With the CFDA

What was troubling about Council of Fashion Designers of America president Steven Kolb restraining protestors at a fashion show last week was not only the physical confrontation, but what it [...]

Christopher Kane Opens New Era at Mulberry

The designer returned to the London Fashion Week runway with an audacious reformulation of the British heritage brand’s iconography, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

Demna’s Gucci Back Under the Microscope at Milan Fashion Week

A year after the designer’s debut, his third runway show for the Italian fashion house will offer an update on his creative revamp — and clues about how well it [...]

Did Fendi Commit Cultural Appropriation in India? It’s Not That Simple

A reissued Baguette bag sparked outrage online after its product description failed to credit the cultural origins of its mirrored embroidery. Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri has worked for decades with [...]

Asos Names Law Roach ‘Stylist in Residence’

Online fashion retailer Asos has brought on celebrity stylist Law Roach to bring his creative lens and styling approach to its campaigns and recently relaunched magazine. [...]

CFDA’s Steven Kolb Resigns Following PETA Altercation

In a video that went viral, the longtime trade body president is seen wrestling with protestors at a New York Fashion Week show. [...]

Boohoo’s New Chairman Stirs Controversy as Broker Drops Coverage

The online clothing retailer, which rebranded as Debenhams Group last year, said Friday that Iain McDonald had taken over from Tim Morris with immediate effect in a move aimed at [...]

Do Fashion Week Protests Work?

This week, an altercation with animal rights activists at the Cos show in New York has put a long-shot campaign against wool in the media spotlight. [...]

Christopher Kane: Mulberry’s Heritage Is a Foundation, Not a Limitation

The subversive Scottish designer’s debut for the British heritage brand is London Fashion Week’s hottest ticket. He joins Tim Blanks on The BoF Podcast to discuss his plans to make [...]

Why M&S Put on a Runway Show at London Fashion Week

The British retailer staged its first-ever fashion week show as it attempts to boost the visibility and appeal of its clothing offer among younger shoppers. [...]

BoF Careers Convenes Industry Leaders in London for Exclusive Insights on AI in the Workplace

Senior leaders from Chanel, Burberry, De Beers, Mulberry and L’Oréal, among others, attended an intimate breakfast at Mortimer House in London to explore AI’s impact on recruitment and talent retention. [...]

Glenn Martens to Exit Diesel

The Belgian designer’s last collection for the denim brand will be presented next week in Milan. [...]

Why Watch Brands Like Hublot Are Eyeing Art

An inflated dog balloon watch – Hublot’s tie-up with Jeff Koons unveiled this week – reflects the brand’s attempt to expand beyond sports and marks the industry’s increasing embrace of [...]

On’s Big Coup With Kylian Mbappé

Not only has On announced its expansion into football, but it did so while snatching the best footballer in the world away from Nike. [...]

Luxury Perfume Line Roja London Acquired by Extravaganza Beauty

Master perfumer and founder Roja Dove will remain with the brand in a new consultancy role. [...]

On Expands Into Football, Lures Mbappé From Nike

The push into football, fronted by superstar Kylian Mbappé, could provide a new growth avenue for the Swiss sportswear label. [...]

UK Retail Sales Bounce Back With 0.5% Gain in August

Warm weather and a brighter national mood helped lift spending on clothing and household goods despite rising energy bills. [...]

EssilorLuxottica Gets Rare Sell Call Amid Stock Slump, AI Glasses Concerns

Shares in the eyewear giant, one of Europe's best-rated blue chips, have dropped 55 percent since November, while concerns are mounting over slowing growth and privacy issues for its AI [...]

The Fashion E-Tailer Pulling Ahead on AI

Zalando is using artificial intelligence to boost growth and efficiency, including a 90 percent reduction in the cost of creating website content. BoF went inside the push to win the [...]

H&M Stages Cinematic Fashion Show Directed by Nick Knight

The Swedish fast-fashion brand returned to London Fashion Week for a second year in a row as it doubles down on efforts to reassert its fashion credentials and reignite demand. [...]

Olaplex Names New CEO

Christoph Kaul will succeed Amanda Baldwin, who led the hair care label through its acquisition by Henkel earlier this year. [...]

The Tween Beauty Story Is Tired. Can We Move On?

This week, Priya Rao argues that Gen Alpha’s interest in cosmetics and skincare mirrors that of its predecessors, [...]

Nike’s Falling Share Price Puts Dow Seat in Jeopardy

The sportswear giant's spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is looking increasingly uncertain as the brand braces for its exit from the S&P 100. [...]

Perelel Expands C-Suite, Tapping Rare Beauty’s CMO

Known for its prenatal vitamins, the wellness label has hired Rare Beauty's Ashley Murphy as its chief marketing officer, while Anjelika Temple moves into the chief creative officer role. [...]

BBC art dealing game show reveals 'crisis of commodification' facing galleries

What is the future for the art market when monetary value trumps aesthetic value? [...]

Art Institute of Chicago restitutes Metzinger painting sold in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam

The 1913 painting, “Woman With a Fan”, was one of a number of paintings from the Lewenstein collection to be auctioned in 1940 under unclear circumstances [...]

Comment | AI can't beat my art detective skills yet—but if it does I have a plan B

Google Lens couldn't identify my recently acquired 17th-century portrait this time—but if the machines do take over, there are some art jobs it surely can't replace [...]

Hockney works to the fore at British Art Fair

The event, started in 1988 and one of London's oldest art fairs, returns to the Saatchi Gallery this week with over 70 exhibitors [...]

Mauritshuis to restitute 17th-century Dutch painting after research reveals it belonged to renowned Jewish dealer

The painting has been linked to Jacques Goudstikker, many of whose works were transported to Germany without his widow’s permission [...]

U-Haul Art Fair’s fleet doubles in size for next New York outing

The truck-based fair’s latest edition, coinciding with The Armory Show, will feature 20 exhibitors [...]

Christie’s will stage second anime and manga auction after debut sale outperformed expectations

In October, the auction house will once again tap into the US boom of Japanese popular culture with a sale centred on Dragon Ball, Pokémon, Sailor Moon and Studio Ghibli [...]

Paul Cezanne’s influence on generations of artists laid bare in Parisian exhibition

A landmark exhibition traces the French artist’s impact on painters ranging from Pablo Picasso to Peter Doig [...]

Santiago Sierra’s latest piece, a non-stop reading of names of Palestinians killed since 1948, opens in London

Organised by A/POLITICAL, the continuous reading by Arabic speakers will be open to the public, as well as available to view via livestream [...]

Sylvie in Paris? Netflix star to lead weekend rehang at this year's Art Basel Paris

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, best known to Anglophone audiences from the hit series Emily in Paris, will ‘art-direct’ the French fair's Oh La La! rehang programme [...]

From a murder case to hidden works: new details about mysterious 17th-century painter Claudia del Bufalo revealed

Research completed ahead of an exhibition in Oslo has shone fresh light on the painter currently known only for a single portrait [...]

From the Bronx to the Lower East Side, New York’s museum building boom continues

Several institutional construction projects have already opened this year, with more in the pipeline [...]

This autumn’s standout shows in New York, from Modern architecture in Africa to Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles

Exhibitions celebrating Arthur Jafa and Teresa Margolles, examining the legacy of Orientalism, and more are on the itinerary this season [...]

Independent 20th Century brings blue-chip deep cuts to the Breuer

The fair’s autumnal edition, devoted to overlooked or under-recognised bodies of work from the previous century, is taking over Sotheby’s headquarters [...]

The Armory Show spotlights Caribbean artists and galleries

New York’s biggest art fair has revamped its footprint to place artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas in the foreground, as well as stalwarts of the hometown scene [...]

The Big Review: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art ★★★½

While the swooping building is impressive and easy to navigate, the collection is patchy and the displays are at times “bizarre” [...]

Amid affordability crisis for artists, Vancouver’s city council establishes cultural land trust

The model—already deployed in San Francisco, Helsinki and London—aims to protect creative communities from rampant real estate speculation and development [...]

Rising costs force museums across North America to rethink climate control guidelines

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems often account for 60%-70% of an institution’s energy consumption and lead to large carbon footprints [...]

Aperture’s new home reflects the non-profit’s commitment to ‘a democratic medium’

The publisher of photography books and magazines inaugurates its new street-level space, complete with a bookstore and gallery, on the Upper West Side this month [...]

Perfect posture? MoMA exhibition explores perspectives on body politics in public spaces

Seven contemporary artists respond to Marianne Wex’s groundbreaking 1970s feminist work on body language in the New York show [...]

UK government places export bar on ‘rare’ Renaissance sculpture worth £4.6m

‘Seated Nymph’ was created in the early 16th century by the Italian sculptor Antico, nicknamed for his Classical-inspired bronzes [...]

Lawrence Abu Hamdan: ‘Political struggles all over the world create this debris of sounds’

As he prepares to open a takeover at the Barbican Centre in London, the Turner prize-winning artist discusses his investigatory, cross-disciplinary practice and how the DIY music scene has influenced [...]

Why traditional Chinese artist Bada Shanren’s eye-rolling birds are attracting a wave of young visitors, 400 years on

The largest ever show on 17th-century Chinese master Bada Shanren has found unexpected resonance with a new generation, inspiring popular memes and merchandise [...]

Contemporary Istanbul expands international reach with 17 newcomers

Organisers are highlighting the city's role as a regional culture hub despite ongoing economic and political challenges [...]

Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces

Cultural institutions must avoid falling into the trap of treating art as a visitor attraction [...]

Late greats David Hockney and Wu Guanzhong shown together at Christie's Hong Kong

The non-selling show was inspired by Hockney’s three-week visit to China in 1981, as the country was reopening to the world [...]

‘If I love it, I know it’: collector and Pace Prints president Jacob Lewis on trusting first impressions

The president and chief executive of Pace Prints discusses his love of printmaking and the exhibition he is most looking forward to this autumn [...]

Hundreds gather at Kennedy Center to protest Trump’s attacks

More than 1,000 attendees formed a human chain around the Washington, DC, performing arts centre that Trump has taken over, sought to rebrand and threatened to shutter and demolish [...]

600-year-old funerary platform discovered in Peru

The massive burial site containing human remains and rich offerings likely belonged to Chimú elites [...]

Peter Max, artist who achieved ubiquity marrying Pop art and psychedelia, has died, aged 88

A celebrity in his own right who also created riotous portraits of many famous and powerful people, Max made images that became inseparable from the legacy of the Summer of [...]

ArtRio opens amid political uncertainty as Brazil’s art market continues to grow

The Rio fair brings together 76 galleries as an upcoming presidential election and a new generation of collectors shape the market [...]

Blue-chip names headline Christie’s Hong Kong sales

As the auction house continues to celebrate 40 years of operating in Asia, its exciting line-up of September sales offers renowned global artists alongside those with strong markets in the [...]

Australian entrepreneur invents hardware aimed at making art-handling lower risk and hands-free

Artist Engineering Hardware is a new system that aims to reduce damage during transport and installation by eliminating direct contact with works of art [...]

Cave markings discovered in Ireland could transform understanding of when humans first settled there

Researchers believe that humans may have walked across the sea from Wales during the last Ice Age and made art [...]

Giotto restored in Florence, Biennale de Lyon, Remedios Varo—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Giotto’s revitalised depictions of the life of St Francis of Assisi in the Basilica of Santa Croce, speaks to the curator of [...]

Dutch museum puts all 88 of its Van Gogh paintings on display for the first time in more than two decades

The Kröller-Müller Museum shows its vast collection of Van Gogh pictures in a bold display around the themes of faith, hope and love [...]

Malba picks architect for expansion that will double its exhibition space

The Buenos Aires museum has selected the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to lead its ambitious build-out [...]

Madrid’s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza to open new venue for contemporary art

The expansion will house more than 360 contemporary artworks donated or on loan from the TBA21 Collection, led by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza [...]

Celebrated Italian church featuring art by Giotto and Cimabue preserved through new digital reconstruction project

Panoramic views of the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi in central Italy’s Umbria region can be viewed on the Preserving Assisi platform [...]

Comment | Sunil Gupta’s intimate photographs show how art and activism can work together

The images in the British-Indian artist’s retrospective at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, England, are both tender and powerful [...]

Tate Modern to stage its first Monet exhibition next year

The exhibition, which explores the passage of time across Monet’s oeuvre, is partly sponsored by Anthropic, which sponsored another Monet show earlier this year [...]

Comment | Mega-galleries reducing their real estate footprint might seem to spell doom—but a bit of perspective is needed

Property moves by the largest galleries may signal adaptation rather than retreat in an unsettled art market [...]

Researchers rescuing war-damaged manuscripts in Gaza receive Unesco prize

Abdul Latif Hashim and Haneen Al-Amassi have been awarded the $40,000 Unesco/Jikji Memory of the World Prize [...]

Monet’s ‘Iris’ could break record for most expensive painting ever sold at auction in France

Estimated between €22m-€30m, it leads a 28-lot sale at Sotheby’s Paris of the collection of Jeanne Schlumberger [...]

One of Lima’s oldest mills, uncovered by chance in 2020, to open to visitors in January

The Molino de Aliaga, the Peruvian capital’s earliest colonial structure discovered to date, was built by the Spanish conquistador Jerónimo de Aliaga in the 16th century [...]

Winners of 2026 Governor General Awards, one of Canada’s top art prizes, revealed

An exhibition featuring works by all eight recipients of this year’s awards will open in New Brunswick this autumn [...]

Russia’s revered ‘Trinity’ icon reportedly damaged after climate-control system breaks down

The State Tretyakov Gallery, which housed Andrei Rublev’s icon until it was transferred to the church in 2023, said museum staff are checking its condition [...]

Ukrainian Orthodox ‘treasures’ from Kyiv monastery go on view at the V&A in London

The opening of the free display was marked by a symposium discussing British and Ukrainian collaboration to protect and preserve the embattled country's cultural heritage [...]

London gallery brings together 200 works by Iranian artists as part of ‘very special’ joint initiative

Ab-Anbar Gallery is offering a rare access to contemporary Iranian art as sanctions, war and economic pressures isolate the country’s art scene [...]

Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art

The ceremony officially kicked off construction on the wing designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo [...]

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