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Report: Boots Owner in Talks on Possible $10 Billion Sale

Private equity firm Sycamore Partners, which took ownership of the British pharmacy and beauty chain last year, has reportedly begun divestiture discussions. [...]

US Food and Drug Administration Approves New Sunscreen Filter

The US sunscreen market reaches a regulatory milestone as the FDA approves the first new UV filter for wide industry use since 1999. [...]

Chanel Taps Cartier Veteran to Lead Next Era of Jewellery Design

Marie-Laure Cérède, who led the studios of both Cartier and Harry Winston in roles spanning jewellery and watchmaking, will ‘bring a new perspective to the Chanel codes’ as interest in [...]

Whey Protein Shortage Looms As Weight-Loss Drugs Soar

The growing popularity of weight-loss drugs has fuelled global demand for whey protein, sparking concerns among industry experts over a potential shortage. [...]

Why StockX Is Launching Live Shopping

The secondary market platform is adding a new live shopping service this summer where users will be able to sell everything from sneakers to electronics. Chief executive Greg Schwartz explains [...]

Worldview | Rethinking China’s Far-Flung Cities

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Kuwait’s buzzy beauty e-tailer, South Korea’s Gentle Monster and forced labour in Turkmenistan’s cotton industry. [...]

Christopher Bailey Leads Acquisition of English Potter Burleigh

The former chief creative officer and CEO of Burberry takes control of the 175-year-old company. [...]

New Balance’s India Partner to Introduce More Global Brands in Expansion

Brandman Retail plans to bring brands such as Salomon and Anta to the Indian market and more than quintuple its store count by 2028, betting on rising demand for global [...]

Opinion: Beauty Inflation Is Hair Care’s Opportunity

The beauty industry is experiencing a new wave of demand for affordable treats, and salon-grade hair treatments used at home are emerging as a key part of the trend, writes [...]

Do Retailer Exclusives Still Matter?

Vacation’s entry into Sephora after already securing wide distribution at Ulta Beauty, Target and Costco shows both the new landscape for omnichannel beauty and the limits of the world’s most [...]

Who Is Still Doing Deals in Fashion?

In a muted deal market, investors are prioritising predictable demand, proven brand strength or heritage brands with turnaround potential. [...]

At Communité, Discovery, Differentiation and the Future of Luxury Retail

Following the opening of two new retail concepts in Istanbul, Boyner Group chairman and CEO Cem Boyner sat down with BoF president Nick Blunden to unpack the forces shaping the [...]

Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Is Unlawful, US Judge Rules

Previous BoF analysis found hundreds of workers employed by dozens of fashion and beauty companies use the H-1B visa for skilled workers. [...]

UK Watchdog Begins Formal Review of EBay’s Purchase of Depop

The Competition and Markets Authority said it will decide whether to clear the deal or refer it for in-depth investigation by Aug. 6. [...]

Printemps Names Rémy Baume CEO

Printemps has appointed Rémy Baume its new chief executive, filling a position that had been vacant since September last year. Baume’s appointment is effective immediately, the French department store chain [...]

Prada Unveils New Garment for NASA

The inner-layer garment will be worn by NASA astronauts on their trip to the lunar surface, underscoring the brand’s push to be the first major luxury player to make inroads [...]

Novo Nordisk Looks Beyond Weight Loss to Longevity and Aesthetics

Novo's blockbuster drugs could pull it into buzzier areas of healthcare, chief executive Mike Doustdar said, as the Ozempic maker seeks to lessen its reliance on obesity and diabetes. [...]

Kai Nesselrath Named Design Director of Carven

Nesselrath, a designer from Anthony Vaccarello’s Saint Laurent studio, will present his debut runway collection for the ICCF-owned label at Paris Fashion Week in the autumn. [...]

Why Filipino Beauty Is Taking Over the World

The rise of ‘P-beauty,’ coinciding with more cultural exports from the Philippines, is pushing homegrown brands and trends into the crowding global beauty market. [...]

Men’s Fashion Media Plots Its Next Era

Editors are betting on deeper storytelling, industry access and new personalities as they compete for eyeballs with online creators. [...]

The Multibillion Dollar Battle for a Fragmented World Cup

More teams, more countries and a massive push into the American mainstream. Here is how sportswear giants and fashion houses are lining up. [...]

Zegna Lands in Los Angeles With ‘Villeggiatura’-Wear

Designer Alessandro Sartori tapped the Italian concept of retreating to a seaside or countryside villa for a cultured take on vacation dressing as the brand aims to extend its winning [...]

Saks Wins Approval to Exit Bankruptcy After Reorganising

Under Saks Global’s plan, which US bankruptcy judge Alfredo Perez called ‘an extraordinary result,’ the company will reduce its funded debt from $3.4 billion to about $1.2 billion. [...]

America’s K-Shaped Market May Not Be What It Seems

The recent success of retailers from Coach to Zara may be powered by the surprising resilience of America’s middle class, many of whom have moved up, not down, the economic [...]

The BoF Podcast | Conner Ives Is Building a Business With Instinct

From Central Saint Martins to the viral success of “Protect The Dolls,” Conner Ives joins Imran Amed to discuss what it takes to build an independent fashion label in today’s [...]

Nike’s World Cup Takeover Is Off to a Hot Start

Nike’s new World Cup ad brings a jolt of star power like LeBron James and Kim Kardashian to go along with the football royalty featured. But can it boost the [...]

L’Oréal Scents World’s First AI Art Museum

The beauty conglomerate has become the founding ‘olfactory’ partner of Dataland, embracing the technology that L’Oréal’s Cyril Chapuy calls the ‘luxury of tomorrow.’ [...]

For Beauty Brands, When Does Nostalgia Get Old?

Urban Decay’s recent eyeshadow relaunch shows that a product revival can spur business momentum — the question is, how far? [...]

The Wellness Industry Finds Its Next Target: New Mums

From daily vitamins to luxury recovery retreats, brands are racing to meet the needs of women navigating the transition into motherhood. [...]

Peloton Acquires Pilates Startup Skōp In Growing Wellness Push

The US exercise equipment company acquired Pilates-focused startup Skōp as it looks to expand its offerings and attract new users amid a broader turnaround effort. [...]

Zara’s Elevation Push Lands in London

The Spanish fast-fashion giant’s newly renovated, tech-enabled Bond Street flagship reflects its steady effort to elevate its image as it works to set itself apart from lower-priced rivals. [...]

Lululemon Trims Outlook, Adding Pressure Ahead of New CEO

The weak guidance adds to pressure on Lululemon’s management, which is contending with increased competition from upstart brands and product issues. [...]

Who Will Survive Luxury’s Post-Growth Era?

Disposals, store closures, blurry financial guidance… Decision-makers at LVMH, Kering, Ferragamo and Burberry are no longer betting on a return to the industry’s boom years. [...]

A Mid-Year M&A Check-In

Priya Rao parses the current state of beauty deals with a spotlight on Waldencast’s sale of Obagi Medical. [...]

Why Beauty Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore TikTok Shop

The platform is now a top e-tailer for cosmetics, skincare and hair care, and smart legacy and indie brands are increasingly being lured by its proposition. [...]

OTB Takes Full Control of Viktor & Rolf

The Italian fashion group behind Diesel and Maison Margiela is taking full ownership of the avant-garde haute couture house, acquiring the remaining 30 percent it didn’t already own. Founders Viktor [...]

Inside the Push Towards Footwear Manufacturing in Portugal

BoF and APICCAPS convened designers, brand leaders, and sourcing executives at The Hotel Chelsea in New York City to examine why Portugal has become a compelling answer to the supply [...]

Can Fashion Move Beyond Vanity Metrics?

Visibility matters, but as metrics like ‘media impact value’ come under scrutiny, analytics providers including Launchmetrics and CreatorIQ are evolving their toolsets to measure brand moments beyond impressive-sounding numbers that [...]

Five Top CEOs Will Take the Stage at BoF VOICES 2026

In five separate, in-depth conversations, Kering’s Luca de Meo, LVMH’s Sidney Toledano, Levi’s Michelle Gass, Tapestry’s Joanne Crevoiserat and Saks Global’s Geoffroy van Raemdonck will share their strategies at BoF’s [...]

Neiman Marcus to Close Dallas Flagship

The landmark department store, which is over 100 years old, is another casualty of Saks Global’s Chapter 11 restructuring. [...]

The Mall Mainstay Clawing Back Sephora Tweens

The teen-favourite retailer Urban Outfitters is banking on Gen-Alpha influencers and brands like Sol de Janeiro and Yes Day in its bid to become a ‘beauty empire.’ [...]

Macy’s Raises Annual Forecast as Luxury Focus Draws Affluent Shoppers

The US retailer posted its first quarterly sales growth in nearly four years, driven by strong demand for high-end products at its Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury stores. [...]

Zara Owner Inditex Defies Consumer Gloom With Strong Sales

The retailer handily beat analyst expectations, even as inflation worries stemming from the Middle East crisis dent consumer confidence. [...]

US Appeals Order Compelling Tariff Refunds

The Trump administration has formally appealed the order directing customs authorities to refund the global tariffs declared unlawful by the US Supreme Court earlier this year. [...]

US Proposes New Tariffs on Dozens of Countries, Citing Forced Labour

The levies would affect imports from 60 trading partners, with rates ranging from 10% for Mexico, Canada and the UK to 12.5% for China, India and Brazil, as the Trump [...]

For These Brands, Resisting the DTC Playbook Paid Off

A crop of brands founded in 2016, including Dôen, La Ligne and Cinq à Sept, steered clear of the once-dominant growth model that led direct-to-consumers darlings like Everlane to bust [...]

Ulta Beauty Raises Annual Profit Forecast on Higher-Priced Product Demand

The beauty retailer’s quarterly net sales grew 11.1 percent amid an ongoing turnaround plan. [...]

Can Latin American Fashion Brands Crack Europe?

Brands from Colombia to Argentina are betting on Spain as a springboard for broader European expansion, but shared cultural ties have not shielded them from high costs and fierce local [...]

CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Names 2026 Finalists

To be announced in October, the winner will receive $300,000 while the two runners-up will take home $100,000. [...]

China’s Li-Ning Scores Big by Signing Stephen Curry

NBA superstar Stephen Curry signed a new sneaker and apparel deal with Li-Ning, giving the Chinese sportswear brand a new global superstar to help it expand beyond its home market. [...]

Wallace Chan exhibitions pair intricate sculptures with Venetian heritage

The Hong Kong jeweller and sculptor unveils parallel installations at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo and Santa Maria della Pietà, linking mythology, sacred architecture and cosmology [...]

Artists create Fifa World Cup posters denouncing presence of US immigration agents

The “No Ice in the Cup” campaign is using art to protest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' planned deployment to the football tournament [...]

New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power

The new FotoFocus Center gives the city’s popular photography biennial a permanent presence and an inclusive mandate [...]

Mexico City museum with world's richest collection of Kahlo and Rivera works reopens after years of controversy

The Museo Dolores Olmedo is welcoming visitors again after a six-year-long closure during which plans were floated to relocate its prized collection [...]

Jarvis Cocker’s ‘hodge podge’: Pulp frontman to curate art exhibition

The English musician will co-organise a show at the UK's Hepworth Wakefield next year [...]

Legacy dealer Marianne Rosenberg unearths family archive for New York show

Giacomo Manzù: The Artist and his Dealer explores the decades-long relationship between the Italian artist and Rosenberg's father [...]

MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music

The exhibition, opening in March 2027, will pair one of MoMA’s prized possessions, “Broadway Boogie Woogie”, with “Victory Boogie Woogie” on loan from the Netherlands [...]

New digital archive reconstructs Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts for the first time in four centuries

The director of the Museo Galileo, which has led the Leonardotheka project, says it sets a “compelling precedent for how cultural institutions can and must retain intellectual ownership of their [...]

Stoke-on-Trent—the UK's home of ceramics—seeks emergency funds for crumbling heritage

Without urgent action, “the unique value of the landscape could be lost forever”, city council’s chief executive warns [...]

AI cultural platform Artlas expands pilots as founder argues institutions need trusted AI tools

The app generates personalised experiences for visitors to museums and institutions [...]

Remembering Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of kinetic art

The Argentine-born, Paris-based artist, who died at age 97, had been hoping to attend the opening of his retrospective at Tate Modern next week [...]

Inaugural Medina Triennial transforms small village in upstate New York

More than 100 works by an international lineup of artists respond to the historic village along the Erie Canal [...]

‘Fodder for the vain’: Veterans, preservationists and public speak out against Trump’s arch

Despite the vocal testimony against the project, the National Capital Planning Commission voted overwhelmingly in favour of the arch [...]

Chairman of Trump’s US Commission of Fine Arts participates in ‘Russian Davos’

Rodney Mims Cook Jr, the chairman of the commission overseeing Trump's makeover of Washington, DC is the first US official to attend in nearly a decade—and spoke on a panel [...]

Come together: how London galleries are making it work in the capital

As rising costs and a softer market force dealers to rethink their strategies, galleries across the capital are experimenting with new business models [...]

Nazi-looted Georg Kolbe fountain breaks German artist's auction record

Dancer’s Fountain sold for €4m, after it was returned by the artist's museum to the heirs of Jewish collector Heinrich Stahl [...]

Yemen heritage, US flags at the National Gallery in Washington, Felix Gonzalez-Torres—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about cultural heritage at risk in Yemen, speaks to E. Carmen Ramos on the new American flag exhibition at the National Gallery of [...]

Photographs of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson’s shared studio go on show in London

Black-and-white images taken by Paul Laib are being exhibited at the Courtauld Gallery [...]

Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery

“A Symphony in Blue and Yellow” raises intriguing questions about how the artist wanted to present his masterpieces [...]

Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian graphic novelist, dies at 56

Best known for her graphic novel Persepolis and its award-winning film adaption, Satrapi died in Paris on 4 June from “sadness” following her husband's recent death [...]

A Kennedy-connected Stiehl box and a pair of Van Huysum still-lifes: our pick of the June auctions

Plus a Maynard Dixon painting owned by Diane Keaton and a William Morris working combining cave art and glass [...]

Comment | Farewell, Los Angeles’s ‘punk’ Box gallery

The Chinatown stalwart championed overlooked artists, from Barbara T. Smith to Wally Hedrick [...]

Museums across North America hope to score with World Cup programmes

Institutions in host nations Mexico, Canada and the US are capitalising on the Fifa tournament [...]

Comment | As Pace slashes business, could shrinking be the next growth model?

Constant expansion and rising prices in the primary market necessary for a mega gallery are "unfixable", says chief executive Marc Glimcher [...]

More than 100 artists threaten legal action against Venice Biennale

The artists claim the organisers did not respond to their request for removal from the Visitors' Lions prize vote, which the Biennale disputes [...]

Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art hires Philippe Vergne as artistic director and chief curator

Vergne, who is currently the director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, previously held leadership roles at the Dia Art Foundation and Moca Los Angeles [...]

London Gallery Weekend 2026: our critics pick their top shows

With over 120 galleries across the UK capital participating in this year's London Gallery Weekend, our critics have chosen their top 20 shows to guide you through the weekend [...]

Quentin Blake’s sprawling Centre for Illustration to launch in London

The hub, housed in complex of industrial buildings in north London, will showcase illustration and graphics by the celebrated British artist and many others [...]

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família finally shakes off its ‘incompletable’ tag, as Pope prepares to inaugurate its tallest tower

Long considered forever unfinishable due to its extreme complexity and the loss of its architect’s original plans, the Barcelona basilica’s 14th tower has now been completed [...]

Call my agent: why artist management companies are making a comeback

A spate of new organisations are challenging traditional gallery models to support artists in different ways [...]

JR's wrapped Pont Neuf installation in Paris damaged in storm

The opening of the French street artist's newest public work and tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude has now been delayed [...]

Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale

From Tai Shani to Ekow Eshun, seven leading art world figures reflect on Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, the main exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other collateral [...]

Bringing history to life: Abu Dhabi’s Zayed National Museum is becoming a major research hub

The landmark institution uses experimental methodologies and cross-discipline collaborations to bring people closer to the UAE’s past—and to encourage the historians of the future [...]

Comment | Furore over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI

The issues raised by the dealer James Danziger’s AI-generated photo are profoundly and irrevocably human [...]

Colorado passes law giving artists new legal and fiscal tools

The bill, signed into law by the governor on 2 June, allows artists to create companies to help them monetise their labour and retain intellectual property rights [...]

June Book Bag: from the street art of JR to a behind-the-scenes look at the Venice Biennale

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

Phoenix Art Museum gifted 185 works of Native American art

The acquisition, from the collection of William P. Healey, will form the basis of an exhibition opening at the museum in August [...]

John Constable, an artist and man for all seasons, shines brightly in new book

The 250th anniversary of Constable’s birth has seen a flurry of publications about the great painter and his work. This rich and ingenious study reveals how his art and life [...]

Mystery, controversy and the butterfly’s sting: James McNeill Whistler book aims to dispel the fog around his legacy

The unashamedly partisan book by Daniel E. Sutherland also looks at the science behind Whistler’s nocturnes [...]

Mapplethorpe nudes, the NEA and the birth of America’s culture wars

We speak to the writer Isaac Butler about his book revisiting the battles over censorship and public funding in the US during the 1980s and 1990s [...]

How Andy Warhol’s textile and fashion work influenced his art

Three key takeaways from a new book that looks at the artist's designs for shop awnings, advertising illustrations, screen-printed clothes and more [...]

An expert's guide to Marina Abramović: five must-read books on the performance artist

The best Abramović publications, from an intimate memoir to a collection of the artist’s aphorisms—selected by the curator Shai Baitel [...]

Dawn Airey announced as new chair of Arts Council England

The television veteran will replace Nicholas Serota, known for his Tate directorship, on 1 August for a term of four years [...]

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports

Widely known by her online alter ego Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein had come to prominence through her memes and critiques of the art world [...]

New art fair focused on community and accessibility launching in Philadelphia

Elsewhere is bringing 26 exhibitors to the Yowie Hotel on South Street for its inaugural edition [...]

Chichén Itzá reopens after dispute with vendors that led to 13-day closure

A battle over new visitor facilities highlights tensions between tourism development and local livelihoods [...]

Inside the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's major expansion

The Arkansas museum now has 50% more space for its ever-expanding collection and art-and-wellness programming [...]

Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfall

The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes [...]

Gone bananas: Cattelan's Comedian stolen from Centre Pompidou-Metz exhibition

The duct-taped banana installation was swiftly restored after its "perishable element" went missing on Saturday afternoon [...]

British Museum director responds to pushback after Jewish Culture Month event postponed

The museum rescheduled a May lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah upon learning that a significant number of participants intended to disrupt the event [...]

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