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Kim Kardashian’s shapewear-turned-lifestyle brand has defied all odds to reach a $5 billion valuation — but investors are betting on its future, not its past. [...]

The BoF Podcast | Amber Valletta: ‘Do What You Love. Serve a Higher Purpose.’

The supermodel joins BoF founder Imran Amed to trace her journey from Tulsa to the world’s runways, how sobriety transformed her life at 25, and why she believes fashion must [...]

Hermès Appoints New Head of Perfume and Beauty

Anne-Sarah Panhard, the former managing director of Hermès’ home division, assumed the role on Nov. 1, succeeding Agnès de Villers. [...]

The Frayed Edge: Survival Is Fashion’s Next Big Climate Challenge

With efforts to avert climate crisis just limping along, the industry needs to brace for a harsh new reality. [...]

Swiss Government: US Tariffs Will be Reduced to 15%

The government thanked President Donald Trump for a constructive engagement in a post on X. [...]

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to Retire, Insider John Furner Named Top Boss

Shares of the company fell about 3 percent in premarket trading. [...]

Why Press-On Nails Might Overtake the Gel Market

Cheaper to buy and easier to apply, press-on nails are coming for the billion-dollar nail salon business. (And for Megan Fox’s manicure.) [...]

The Kicks You Wear: Stephen Curry Breaks Up With Under Armour

Footwear has become increasingly weird over the past few years. The latest trend report from the secondary market platform StockX shows us that it won’t change heading into 2026. [...]

Inside Mco Beauty’s $600 Million Dupe Business

The Australian makeup label has become the number one beauty brand in its native country, and is growing abroad, thanks to the popularity of its lower-priced alternatives to products from [...]

Opinion: Can Jewellery Continue to Outpace Fashion?

Jewellery has outperformed handbags in recent cycles, but with an unprecedented wave of new fashion designers set to unleash novel products, jewellery brands are set to face serious competition, writes [...]

Under Armour Parts Ways With Steph Curry as Restructuring Gathers Pace

The split ends a high-profile partnership between the NBA star and the sportswear company that had lasted more than a decade. [...]

Richemont Rides Out Tariffs, Gold Prices with Sales Beat

The Swiss group reported sales up 14 percent in its latest quarter, smashing expectations amid “unprecedented” headwinds including currency movements, rising gold prices and US tariffs. [...]

Explainer: What the EU’s Moves to Water Down Sustainability Rules Mean for Fashion

After months of political wrangling, Europe’s Parliament has reached a deal to significantly scale back landmark corporate sustainability rules, paving the way for much laxer environmental reporting and due diligence [...]

Estée Lauder Invests in Mexican Fragrance Brand Xinú

The investment is the company’s first in a Latin American brand, and signals its intent to deepen its global diversification and presence in fragrance. [...]

Moody’s Downgrades Nike’s Debt Ratings on Cost Pressures

In downgrading the company’s senior unsecured debt by one notch on Wednesday, the credit rating agency cited higher tariffs among other factors in its decision. [...]

Zalando Turns to EU Top Court in Fight Over Online Content Rules

Europe's biggest online fashion retailer said that a lower tribunal had erred in throwing out its challenge. [...]

Full Coverage: How A Big Risk Paid Off For Patrick Starrr’s One/Size

This week, I take a look at the need for innovation in beauty, Drunk Elephant’s proposed comeback and Carisa Janes’ new makeup line. [...]

JD.com Tops Revenue Forecasts as Discounts and Subsidies Lift Demand

The Chinese e-commerce platform saw growth in both user base and customer shopping frequency in the quarter ended September. [...]

US Retail Holiday Job Postings Slump, Indeed Says

October retail hiring fell below pre-pandemic levels, indicating low demand expectations. [...]

Inside a $20,000 Eyebrow Transplant

In an era where thick brows are the look, transplants have become the latest it cosmetic procedure for celebrities and civilians alike. [...]

Why Beauty’s Biggest Companies Are Struggling to Grow

This season’s earnings paints a gloomy picture of the fiscal year ahead, thanks to a downturn in the US and a cooling fragrance market, but agile firms are finding brighter [...]

Alibaba Preps Big Revamp of Flagship AI App to Resemble ChatGPT

The Chinese e-commerce giants also plans to gradually add agentic-AI features to support shopping on platforms including its Taobao marketplace in coming months. [...]

Brussels Wants to Accelerate Crackdown on Cheap Chinese Parcels

Brussels is proposing to accelerate the removal of the €150 ‘de minimis’ customs threshold for parcels entering the EU, mostly from China. [...]

Asos Cuts Interest Costs in $319 Million Refinancing

The British online fashion retailer’s refinancing deal is expected to boost its liquidity and reduce interest costs. [...]

Holiday Test Looms as Luxury Brands Chase Elusive Rebound

Major fashion houses like LVMH and Kering face pressure to prove that third-quarter improvements can lead to sustained growth amidst a quiet China market and volatile US consumer. [...]

L’Oréal Selling €3 Billion of Bonds for Kering Beauté Deal

L’Oréal SA is selling at least €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) of bonds in a three-part deal to help finance its acquisition of Kering Beauté. [...]

WeightWatchers Plans to Sell Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy Pill

The company’CEO said on Wednesday it plans to sell Novo Nordisk’s much-anticipated Wegovy in pill form if it is launched next year in the United States, deepening its tie-up with [...]

Burberry Returns to Growth as Turnaround Effort Starts to Bear Fruit

It’s the first time in two years that the British luxury brand has reported a return to growth. [...]

Patagonia’s CEO on Selling ‘the Unsexiest Thing in the World’

As the Californian outerwear brand publishes its first ever sustainability progress report, its 50-year effort to model and promote a more climate-friendly form of capitalism is under threat. [...]

The Plan for McQueen

The label founded by Lee Alexander McQueen is ‘not for sale,’ says owner Kering. Instead, the French group is accelerating plans to restructure and reposition the brand after years of [...]

After a Scandal Nearly Derailed Her Brand, Matilda Djerf Reemerges

Twelve months after the Swedish influencer faced allegations of mistreating her employees, she’s opening a pop-up at the London department store, the brand’s first foray into wholesale. [...]

The Business of Beauty and Amazon Beauty Celebrate Founder-Led Brands in Los Angeles

Founders and executives from Arrae, Phlur, Danessa Myricks Beauty, Haus Labs, Pattern Beauty, Kosas, Patrick Ta, Ilia, Summer Fridays and One/Size by Patrick Starr gathered in Los Angeles for dinner [...]

The Debrief | Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Accessories?

From Labubu charms to stacked bracelets, shoppers are using accessories to personalise minimalist wardrobes, boosting small labels and hinting at a lasting behavioural shift. Diana Pearl joins The Debrief to [...]

Skims Secures $5 Billion Valuation

The shapewear label founded by Kim Kardashian announced it has obtained $225 million in financing on Wednesday. [...]

High Margin: Can Richemont Keep Up Its Winning Streak?

The Cartier owner has been luxury’s most dynamic conglomerate in recent years. But tariffs, high gold prices and a softening US market pose challenges. Plus, Burberry’s moment of truth and [...]

Antonin Tron to Design Balmain

The founder of Atlein will replace Olivier Rousteing, who parted ways with Mayhoola-backed Balmain last week after fourteen years as the house’s creative director. [...]

How Much Do We Really Reveal When We Get Dressed?

A new exhibition – with contributions from Chanel, McQueen and Galliano – places 100 looks under the psychoanalytic lens, and suggests that what we wear is the result of a [...]

Exclusive: Hourglass Founder Carisa Janes Launches New Beauty Brand

Eight years after selling her prestige cosmetics line to Unilever Prestige, Janes has another brand on her hands, launching with 25 foundation shades and a face oil. Can lightning strike [...]

Sportswear Brand On Lifts Annual Targets Again Amid Strong Demand

The Swiss brand raised its annual revenue forecast for the third time this year. [...]

WMH Acquires Production Company Profirst France, To Be Merged with Petit Ami

Under new ownership the agencies will rebrand as The Officin. [...]

i-D Magazine Appoints Marcelo Gutierrez as Global Beauty Editor

The Colombian makeup artist’s appointment was announced Wednesday, along with a standalone beauty zine set to release in spring 2026. [...]

LVMH’s Watch Unit Takes Minority Stake in La Joux-Perret

The move deepens LVMH’s partnership with the high-end Swiss watch movement and component manufacturer. [...]

China’s Singles’ Day Shopping Winds Down With ‘Muted’ Sentiment, Sales Expectations

The world’s largest shopping event failed to spark widespread excitement as ongoing consumer malaise tempered spending. [...]

How to Track Your Brand in the Age of AI

At a BoF Insights breakfast in London, senior executives gathered to explore how algorithms, viral moments and AI are rewriting the rulebook of brand building — and how leaders need [...]

Four Takeaways From the Fall Art Fair Frenzy

Paris is booming amid growing reliance on core collectors and wider market regionalisation. Plus, artists consider Sora 2, YouTube vs Netflix and the Pompidou’s Grand Finale. [...]

Why the Fashion Industry (Mostly) Hates a Weak Dollar

The greenback’s slide this year is reducing the purchasing power of American consumers, depressing tourism and complicating supply chains already rocked by tariffs. Brands say the overall impact can top [...]

Tariffs Are Forcing Brands to Cut Back on Black Friday Deals

Companies such as Coach, Nike, Ralph Lauren and Levi’s are seeking to reduce or phase out promotions this year, even as consumers are increasingly seeking out deals. [...]

Swiss Billionaires Pivotal in Wooing Trump Ahead of Tariff Deal

Billionaires from Richemont and Partners Group, successfully leveraged their influence and personal relationship with Donald Trump to push Switzerland closer to a deal that would significantly reduce US tariffs on [...]

Levi’s to Sell $300 Jeans in More Stores to Tap Growing Demand for Premium Denim

The denim company is expanding its premium Blue Tab line to boost growth and attract a broader customer base. [...]

Report: Kering and Mayhoola to Inject €100 Million Into Valentino

The French group and the Qatari investment fund have agreed to shore up the Italian fashion house’s finances after it breached loan covenants earlier this year, according to a corporate [...]

Sculptor Alma Allen reportedly selected to represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

After plans for a Robert Lazzarini presentation collapsed, another sculptor has reportedly been picked for the US Pavilion [...]

With end of US government shutdown, National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian museums start reopening

Areas of the National Gallery of Art and parts of the Smithsonian were open to the public for the first time in more than a month on Friday [...]

Turning passion and pride into success

Saudi Arabia’s first Nama’ Accelerators – Handicrafts track has helped local artisans develop and grow their businesses, tapping into a new worldwide appreciation of traditional crafts [...]

Farewell to Lumiere? UK light festival holds what may be its final edition

Organisers announced in October that this would be the last iteration of the event due to funding challenges [...]

Van Gogh’s ‘Sower’ will soon go on sale at Sotheby's—where it's set to make record price

Owned by the cosmetics king Leonard Lauder, the work could become the most expensive Van Gogh drawing ever sold [...]

Studio Museum reopens, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer in Suffolk—podcast

Editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, takes a trip to Harlem, digital editor Alexander Morrison discusses Egypt's newest museum and Ben Luke meets a curator of “Love & Landscape: Stanley [...]

Art sector could collectively cut over five million tonnes of CO₂ a year, report suggests

Gallery Climate Coalition’s inaugural Stocktake Report shows the difference the art sector can make when it comes to the climate—but the next five years are crucial, says chair Frances Morris [...]

Inside the 19th-century Parisian club that became a safe haven for female artists

A new book tells the story of The American Girls' Club in Montparnasse, which provided studios and solidarity—though not for all [...]

In southern Italy, a long-planned excavation is revealing the secrets of an ancient Greek sanctuary

This summer a team of archaeologists resumed their work on a site dating back to around 600BC, known for its three well-preserved Doric temples [...]

Comment | Want to truly read a painting? Forget the present, and focus on the past

To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor [...]

‘The Hay Wain’ to go on show in Constable's home county for the first time

The famed painting will travel to Suffolk next year as part of an exhibition marking 250 years since the artist's birth [...]

In a risk-averse market, Paris Photo offers diversity

Japanese galleries return in full force this year, while the percentage of women photographers shown has increased [...]

Children curate exhibition of Clyfford Still works inspired by their reservation

A hundred students from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation contributed to Clyfford Still Museum’s new show [...]

Hauser & Wirth charged with breaching UK’s Russia sanctions

The UK gallery is being prosecuted for allegedly making available a work by George Condo to a person connected with Russia after the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 [...]

Tate workers face in-work poverty, mental and physical health issues, union says—as strikes expected across UK

Following the announcement of week-long strikes at Tate galleries across the country, the Public and Commercial Services union has raised concerns about their members' welfare [...]

Private collectors’ return of artefacts to Ghana highlights UK's inaction on restitution, heritage experts say

British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana's Asante Kingdom [...]

K11 founder Adrian Cheng on Hong Kong’s art scene, the future of collecting and the creative potential of AI

The Hong Kong entrepreneur also spoke about his love for Monet, Matthew Wong and the Medici family in an interview hosted off the back of the latest K11 Art Foundation [...]

Syrian officials issue—then delete—statement identifying ancient Roman statues stolen from Damascus National Museum

The country’s ministry of culture yesterday shared images of six nude sculptures of the goddess Venus via social media—but within hours the post had been removed [...]

Jenny Saville to present unseen Venice-inspired works to coincide with 61st Biennale

An exhibition featuring 30 works by the record-breaking UK artist will open in the lagoon city in March 2026 [...]

The British artist David Shrigley wants £1m for piles of old rope

The artist, whose practice is underpinned by humour, has a poke at the art market with his new London exhibition [...]

Why former Sotheby's chief executive Tad Smith is bullish on blockchain art

Ahead of the sale of a Robert Alice blockchain-based painting at Sotheby's New York, Smith discusses his support for bitcoin and collecting digital art [...]

This month’s New York auctions could bring up to $2.3bn

Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year’s November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby’s consignments [...]

Art Gallery of Ontario gets gift of more than 450 works

The lion’s share of the donated pieces, from the late collectors Carol and Morton Rapp, are prints and photographs [...]

A new hope: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art sets September 2026 opening date

The $1bn museum co-founded by the ‘Star Wars’ director George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, will open its futuristic doors next autumn in Los Angeles [...]

On the ground at Art Week Tokyo: amid shifting national politics, Japan’s ‘sleeping beauty’ art scene is waking up

The fifth edition of the “post-art fair” event, which took place earlier this month following the election of Japan's first woman prime minister, received largely positive reviews from gallerists and [...]

Do museums need to crack down on selfies?

The Uffizi in Florence is restricting selfies, and New York’s Frick Collection bans all photography—but other museums encourage them [...]

The Big Review | Manet & Morisot at Legion of Honor, San Francisco ★★★½

Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one of her series. But her intimate paintings struggle [...]

The elusive artist Cady Noland has made a shock return: will it impact her reputation?

The American artist has recently broken a long silence with major gallery shows in New York—and the reaction hints at her work’s continuing relevance [...]

Rediscovering Roger Fry, the overlooked Bloomsbury artist who helped bring Cézanne and Van Gogh to the world

A new exhibition at Charleston in Firle while display the extraordinary paintings of an art historian who changed public tastes [...]

Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, devoted to ceramics, reopens after $11m renovation

The museum now boasts a gallery dedicated to Indigenous ceramics, expanded education facilities and enough space to display around 40% of its collection [...]

November Book Bag: from a tome of Japanese printmakers to the first Nina Chanel Abney monograph

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

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun made simple: a lively and informed book for the sound-bite generation

The French portraitist has been repositioned for an entry-level audience [...]

‘Make a lot of bad work for as long as possible’: new book brings you top tips from artists

In Lydia Figes’s publication more than 50 successful artists share their wisdom on everything from defining success to dealing with galleries [...]

How art social media accounts are being turned into books

Having lots of followers on Instagram does not guarantee a publishing deal but it helps [...]

Artificial installation: artist hangs own AI-generated work in Welsh museum

The rogue print was on show at National Museum Cardiff for a few hours before it was spotted by staff [...]

Torkwase Dyson and Alia Farid among artists commissioned for next Carnegie International

More than a dozen participating artists have been announced for the 2026 edition of the longest running recurring exhibition in North America [...]

Comment | As Cop30 opens in Brazil, it is time for the art world to embrace ethics with aesthetics

Ten years on from Gustav Metzger’s visionary environmental art project “Remember Nature”, global leaders and gallerists alike must engage with the climate crisis, writes Louisa Buck [...]

Performance artist and festival of culture added to Russian government's list of ‘foreign agents’

Pavel Krisevich and SlovoNovo festival were added to the list on 7 November [...]

Inside Lambeth Palace, the historic building that will be home to the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally, who was appointed to the role last month, will be the first occupant of the palace following its £40m renovation [...]

Fired director sues Philadelphia Art Museum

Sasha Suda claims in a lawsuit that she was terminated after she “clashed with a small, corrupt and unethical faction” of the museum’s board of trustees [...]

Opening of Museum of West African Art in Nigeria delayed after protests

The official preview weekend for the museum in Benin City was disrupted when a group of protestors broke in [...]

Seeing beyond: Issam Kourbaj on mentoring three young artists for Abu Dhabi Art

New works by Salmah Almansoori, Maktoum Al Maktoum and Alla Abdunabi will go on show at the fair and in the city of Al Ain, before touring the world [...]

New York’s Studio Museum—known for championing Black artists—reopens in $300m new home

The legendary institution, which took seven years to build, reopens with an exhibition devoted to the works of Tom Lloyd [...]

Ten essential works of art to see at the Musée du Louvre

The Parisian museum has recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons—so now is a good time to remember its greatness [...]

How is Trump’s new visa regime impacting art world talent?

The cumbersome and hugely expensive system is complicating international hiring across the sector [...]

Marlene Dumas becomes first contemporary woman artist to join Louvre's permanent collection

Nine new works by the South African-born artist were unveiled at the Paris museum last Thursday [...]

Exclusive: Dana Awartani to represent Saudi Arabia at Venice Biennale 2026

The artist has a particular interest in craft traditions—and frequently addresses the fragility of cultural heritage in her work [...]

Peru’s mysterious ‘band of holes’ site may have been bustling marketplace

New analysis of the 1.5km-long site consisting of thousands of holes suggests they may have been used to measure and trade commodities [...]

Tania Willard wins Canada’s top contemporary art prize

The British Columbia-based artist, who is a member of the Secwépemc First Nation, described the experience of taking home the C$100,000 Sobey Art Award as “a waking dream” [...]

Belgium’s famous Menin Gate memorial to host first Armistice Day ceremony since €6m restoration

The structure, once described as a “sepulchre of crime”, has undergone extensive repairs—and now has a “living roof” [...]

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