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Glossier’s Plan to Regnite Its Marketing Magic

As the beleagured Millennial beauty brand works on its turnaround, a campaign in partnership with the New York City Tourism Board recalls its early marketing stunts. [...]

Jones Road CEO Cody Plofker Steps Down

The marketing executive and son of founder Bobbi Brown announced his departure from the makeup and skincare label after a year and a half at the helm. [...]

Makeup Label Manasi 7 Secures First Investment

The organic Swedish beauty brand has received strategic minority investment to support its next phase of growth. [...]

Jessica McCormack: How a Challenger Is Seizing the Jewellery Opportunity

The London-based independent jewellery label, which sells high-end pieces for everyday wear, has boosted sales by leveraging jewellery as a means of self expression. Chief executive Leonie Brantberg details in [...]

Lutz Huelle: ‘Fashion Is Not Just Luxury Products’

The Wolfgang Tillmans muse and early Martin Margiela collaborator has signed a licensing agreement that will bring stability to his namesake label as it offers an alternative to ‘corporate’ luxury [...]

Inside the BoF and Clinuvel Community Lunch Exploring the Future of Skin Health

Investors from Goldman Sachs, L Catterton and Bansk Beauty joined leaders from L’Oréal, Harrods, Space NK and Unilever at The Business of Beauty Global Forum to examine how advances in [...]

Jody Quon Named Editor-in-Chief of T Magazine

The New York magazine creative director will join the New York Times-operated title. [...]

Jonathan Anderson: The Ultimate Art World Fan Boy

For his sophomore couture collection for Christian Dior, the designer takes detailed inspiration from his favourite artist, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

Opinion: China’s Next Big Export Could Be Beauty

Although overseas sales of Chinese beauty brands are roughly half those of South Korea, the gap is narrowing, thanks to C-beauty’s popularity in Southeast Asia, writes Juliana Liu. [...]

Kiko Milano Names Global Executive Vice President of Brand

Marcello Mastrogiacomo joins the Italian cosmetics label from Gucci to lead global brand, communications and media. [...]

How Beauty Can Still Woo Venture Capital

Venture capital investments in beauty may be far from their DTC-era peak, but brands are still securing early-stage funds with firms across categories. [...]

Why This Summer’s Fashion Campaigns Are All-In on Retro Escapism

Driven by digital fatigue, brands across the pricing spectrum are transforming consumers’ collective memories of simpler times into marketing material. But with so many campaigns leaning into a similar aesthetic, [...]

Luxury Clients Want Meaning More Than Status

The era of buying luxury purely for status and visibility is giving way to something more personal, centred on identity, connection and self-expression. While emotion sits at the heart of [...]

Haute Couture and High Jewellery Take the Paris Stage

Couture debuts from Pierpaolo Piccioli for Balenciaga and Duran Lantink at Jean Paul Gaultier along with sophomore outings by Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Matthieu Blazy at Chanel will show [...]

UK’s Next Plans Takeover Bid for Harvey Nichols

The retailer’s plans are in an early stage, according to a Sky News report. [...]

Taylor Swift Weds in Dior Haute Couture by Jonathan Anderson

The couple also wore custom shoes by Christian Louboutin at their Madison Square Garden ceremony. [...]

Americana Sells. Why Are Brands Afraid of Celebrating America?

The resurgence of Americana has fuelled growth for brands like Ralph Lauren, but America’s 250th anniversary is exposing how difficult it has become to separate national identity from politics. [...]

What France’s Anti-Fast Fashion Law Means for Shein

The new legislation introduces advertising restrictions and financial penalties aimed squarely at ultra-fast fashion platforms like Shein and Temu while largely sparing European players such as Zara and H&M. [...]

The BoF Podcast | Mona Kattan on Finding the Courage to Go It Alone

At The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2026 in Napa Valley, California, Mona Kattan discusses stepping away from the Huda Beauty shadow, the creation of luxury fragrance brand Kayali, and [...]

Fashion’s Golden Opportunity in Team USA’s World Cup Moment

The US men’s national team is on its best run in decades, and shoppers want to be in on the moment. Will fashion join the party? [...]

Exclusive: Can Refy Conquer Europe?

After an encouraging launch in the Middle East, the cult Manchester-based label Refy is betting on the dominance of its core aesthetic by expanding its physical presence to a new [...]

Gymshark Founder in Talks to Buy Back Part of Stake Sold to Private Equity

Ben Francis is in discussions to buy back a portion of the 21 percent stake he sold in 2020 as he looks to increase his control of the activewear brand. [...]

How to Sell Americana in 2026

As demand for classic American styles — from cowboy boots to Ivy League prep — booms in the US and abroad, the nation’s 250th anniversary marks a shift in how [...]

Sephora Brings Beauty Leaders Together at The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2026

Founders and executives from brands including Rare Beauty, ILIA Beauty, Summer Fridays, Merit Beauty and Danessa Myricks Beauty gathered at Stanly Ranch to discuss the partnerships shaping the industry’s future. [...]

Inside Chanel’s Charvet Deal

In this week’s High Margin luxury newsletter: more from Robert’s interview with Charvet’s Anne-Marie and Jean-Claude Colban on the eve of their sale to Chanel. Also: fashion’s renewed focus on [...]

Coty Announces Leadership Changes

The beauty company revealed three executive departures and a new structure to its prestige division as it pursues its comeback strategy. [...]

Will the Niche Perfume Boom Ever End?

This week’s newsletter tracks fragrance’s hottest segment, featuring the new master perfumers at DSM-Firmenich and an interview with Artessence Group CEO Patrice Béliard. [...]

The Emerging Niche Fragrance Hotspots

From New York’s “Perfume Alley” to London’s Mayfair, the next generation of niche perfume brands are creating veritable fragrance districts across shopping destinations in major cities. [...]

Indian Textile Stocks Outperform on Trade Deal Optimism

Suppliers to retailers including Gap and Walmart are beating the broader market as investors bet India’s new trade agreements and shifting sourcing patterns will boost exports. [...]

Report: Boots Entertains $10 Billion Sale Amid IPO Talks

Private equity firm Sycamore Partners and Italian entrepreneur Stefano Pessina are exploring an initial public offering for the pharmacy chain, but are also in talks with the Canadian branch of [...]

The Festival Where Haircutting Is a Spectator Sport

At Sydney’s Hair festival, professionals from the hair industry put their locks on show — and jostle for a view of the live cutting competition. [...]

Spain’s MOP Foundation to Stage David Sims Exhibit

The British photographer’s work will be the subject of a major exhibition, ‘The Hamster Becomes The Problem,’ opening Nov. 21 in A Coruña. [...]

Why Chanel Is Acquiring Charvet

Following a runway collaboration with Matthieu Blazy, Chanel has bought France’s oldest shirtmaker as longtime owner-operators Anne-Marie and Jean-Claude Colban seek a succession plan. ‘Charvet is a beautiful jewel. Now [...]

The Chinese Photographers Global Brands Are Banking On

Once known primarily for local assignments, Chinese fashion photographers like Julian Song and Annie Lai are now landing global campaigns for brands from Hermès to Gucci on the strength of [...]

Icicle: Capturing Interest in Chinese Brands

Executive president Louise Xu explains how the Shanghai-based quiet luxury label is tapping rising interest in Chinese brands, its novel retail concept and the differences between Chinese and Western consumers. [...]

The Next Chapter for Founder-Led Beauty Brands

At The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2026, Unilever Prestige CEO Mary Carmen Gasco-Buisson joined K18 founder and CEO Suveen Sahib and Tatcha founder Vicky Tsai to discuss scaling founder-led [...]

The Debrief | How Nike Built the Biggest World Cup Campaign Ever

Nike’s VP of global brand management Helena Thornton joins The Debrief to explore the thinking behind Nike’s ‘Rip the Script’ campaign and the power of sport as culture. [...]

Marie Adam-Leenaerdt Wins Andam Grand Prize 2026

The designer will take home €300,000 to develop her label, as well as receive mentorship from Alexandre Mattiussi and support from Andam sponsors like Karla Otto. [...]

CFDA Releases Spring/Summer 2027 New York Fashion Week Schedule

Diane von Furstenberg returns with its first live show in a decade to kick off the schedule, a debut for new artistic director Henry Zankov. [...]

How a Veteran Beauty Founder Plans to Win Gen Z

Gregg Renfrew, who launched Counter after buying Beautycounter out of foreclosure, is back with a new brand aimed at getting young shoppers excited about “clean” beauty. [...]

Primark Sales Fall as AB Foods Prepares to Split Off Chain

Associated British Foods Plc said sales at the budget fashion chain dropped in the quarter as the war in Iran dented consumer confidence. [...]

Galderma Slumps After FDA Turns Down Botox Rival Relfydess

Galderma's shares slumped the most in more than a year after US regulators turned down the Swiss dermatology firm’s rival Botox treatment Relfydess. [...]

François-Henri Bennahmias to Launch New Luxury Swiss Watch Brand N3W5

The former Audemars Piguet chief secured a 30 million Swiss franc investment and involvement of enamelist Anita Porchet in a new luxury brand selling mechanical watches starting at 20,000 Swiss [...]

Camper Acquires a Majority Stake in Ancient Greek Sandals

In its first major acquisition, the family-owned Spanish footwear brand Camper has purchased a 60 percent stake in the Grecian sandal maker. [...]

Why Hollywood Executives Are Fashion’s New Power Hire

As content and entertainment become increasingly central to brands’ marketing strategies, companies from Gap to E.l.f. are broadening the talent pool, considering everyone from entertainment IP experts to filmmakers. [...]

The New Rules of Beauty Brand Loyalty

Onstage at The Business of Beauty Global Forum, Jamie Domenici, CMO of Klaviyo and Liz Cebron, CMO of Ilia, joined BoF’s Johanna Stout to explore how brands can navigate an [...]

Nike Edges Past Quarterly Revenue Estimates

The sportswear company reported fourth-quarter revenue of $10.97 billion, compared with analysts’ average estimate ⁠of $10.86 billion. [...]

FDA Staff Question Peptides Backed by Kennedy Ahead of Review

Reviewers at the agency said there was limited clinical evidence and human trials supporting peptides, sharply diverging with US health chief Robert F. Kennedy's plan to deregulate them. [...]

What Is ‘Shilajit’, MAHA’s New Favourite Supplement?

Touted by vaccine sceptics and podcasters like Joe Rogan, shilajit may have real health benefits, but the supply comes with a mountain of worrisome questions. [...]

US Retailers Frontload China Orders to Beat Tariffs for Holiday Season

Shipping executives say retailers are pulling forward orders by four to six weeks to secure holiday inventories before new tariffs take effect later this year. [...]

How novelists continue to be inspired by artists

Several books out this summer use art as a springboard—we speak to some of their authors [...]

The worst of us: a philosopher’s guide to the world’s most depraved art

The academic Daisy Dixon discusses her new book investigating the art that has provoked outrage over the centuries [...]

An expert’s guide to Gustave Courbet: five must-read books on the French painter

The best Courbet publications, from a comprehensive monograph to a look at how he was “a skilful media strategist”—selected by the curators Sonja Pizonka and Anna Brohm [...]

Interest in art’s benefit to health grows as Wales and Greece take major steps

Government awareness is increasing globally as the emphasis shifts from treatment towards prevention [...]

Sotheby’s partners with the Virgil Abloh Estate to sell a set of rare prints to fund university scholarships

The pieces come from a beloved 2015 collaboration between Abloh and his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison [...]

Raven Halfmoon brings her giant doubles to Ballroom Marfa

The Oklahoma-based artist’s first travelling exhibition lands in Donald Judd’s West Texas [...]

When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers

The Neue Galerie’s merger with the Met—the world’s fourth-largest museum—serves as a recent example of a smaller US institution uniting with a larger neighbour [...]

Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect

Numerous heritage sites were among the 58,000 buildings destroyed by the deadly twin earthquakes last month [...]

National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside two other works [...]

Can a Riga fair foster a new generation of collectors in Latvia?

The Baltic state is bidding to bolster its nascent art market [...]

Man jailed as Sotheby’s due diligence foils antiquities fraud

Andrew Crowley, based in Bristol in the UK, has been sentenced for trying to sell statues with forged provenance documents through the auction house in London [...]

Comment | American museum expansions must go beyond glass and steel to serve modern audiences

While increasing their built footprints, US museums also need to expand their accessibility to the public. By failing to do so they risk blowing a chance to democratise new spaces [...]

Tottenham talent: Lee Alexander McQueen’s foundation launches north London art hub

Sarabande Foundation’s new space features artist studios as well as a cafe and an education space [...]

Smithsonian museum will loan more than 200 works to institutions in all 50 states and Puerto Rico

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Bridges Foundation have teamed up for the nationwide loan programme spanning from Huntsville, Alabama, to Big Horn, Wyoming [...]

Etruscan frescoes worth €15m go on display in Rome as part of Italian acquisition strategy

The Francois Tomb fresco cycle, now on show at Rome's National Etruscan Museum, is the state's third major acquisition in two months [...]

British Museum to turn red for second fundraising ball

Tickets for this year's event will cost £3,500 a head to raise funds towards the museum's billion-pound transformation [...]

Pop star Jay Chou’s Matisse dream comes true with $20m purchase

The Taiwanese musician has fulfilled a long-held ambition to own a work by the French artist, buying a painting at Sotheby’s New York [...]

‘Even sewing a button can be subversive’: Ai Weiwei opens vast new show in Manchester

The Chinese activist-artist's exhibition, titled ‘Button Up!’, at Factory International’s Aviva Studios also features a reenactment of his incarceration in 2011 [...]

Epstein files reveal Leon Black as a key Van Gogh buyer

The New York collector acquired five of the artist’s works, including a landscape worth over $60m [...]

‘Chicano art is American art’: Cheech Marin on celebrating Latino art and the connections between art and activism

As he approaches his 80th birthday, the comedian and collector revels in watching people interact with the art at his namesake museum in Riverside, California [...]

New York exhibition fundraising for Venezuelan earthquake relief efforts

More than 200 works on view at Henrique Faria Fine Art are on offer to raise funds for emergency aid in Venezuela through the World Central Kitchen [...]

New York City’s 2027 budget includes record $323m for culture

Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations [...]

Bayeux Tapestry exhibition brings in £2.5m for the British Museum on first day of ticket sales

Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with further releases to come [...]

Human rights museum’s Palestine exhibition sets off feud between Canadian politicians

The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread rebukes including from the leader of the New Democratic Party [...]

Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition

Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and figuration [...]

Nicholas Cullinan portrait goes up at his former employer, London's National Portrait Gallery

Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Cullinan, now the director of the British Museum, is now on permanent display at the gallery [...]

Historic Tallinn Art Hall to reopen this November following €13m renovation

The kunsthalle in the Baltic capital will relaunch with a survey of modern and contemporary Estonian art after its five-year closure [...]

President and general manager of leading Marseille art institution Mucem suspended amid workplace allegations

Pierre-Olivier Costa and Véronique Haché have both been suspended after reports of rising staff discontent and harassment claims against Costa [...]

19th century bronze Laocoön leads London Old Master auctions, selling for £13.6m at Sotheby's

Work achieved the second highest price ever for a pre-Modern sculpture at auction, while Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of Wellington sold for an artist record £9.7m at Christie's [...]

Undisturbed ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle

Minanbé, an intact site in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, sheds new light on the Maya Lowlands [...]

León Ferrari exhibition cancelled in Chile amid cuts to culture budget

José Antonio Kast’s ultraconservative government nixed a show of the late Argentine artist’s overtly political work at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes [...]

The small Ohio town getting an Aboriginal art museum and a James Turrell 'Skyspace' installation

New Bremen is home to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks; the company’s chief executive wants to make it ‘the Marfa of the Midwest’ [...]

At New York’s Swiss Institute, SoiL Thornton ponders the role an art institution can play in the face of a housing crisis

The artist’s exhibition is based around their own experience of facing eviction [...]

Lévy Gorvy Dayan pioneers stand-alone strategy with sale of a single work

New York gallery responds to client needs by offering a $10m-plus de Kooning painting in attention-grabbing move [...]

A dinosaur called Gus and a dramatic Highland landscape by Landseer: our pick of the July auctions

Plus an early version of the Statue of Liberty derived from the original plaster model of the landmark and an intimate, moody landscape by Milton Avery [...]

A brush with… Pio Abad—podcast

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

National Museum Cardiff may temporarily close for renovation work, officials say

Any closure of the museum's building “will be subject to a full review and consultation”, according to Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales) [...]

Former Nederlands Fotomuseum director awarded €400,000 after unfair dismissal ruling

A judge in Rotterdam has ruled that the institution must compensate Birgit Donker after failing to substantiate claims she created an "unsafe" working environment [...]

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose's Sussex home handed over to newly formed charity

The farmhouse, which was visited by artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Dorothea Tanning, was previously run by the pair’s family as a private company [...]

UK charity Hospital Rooms to distribute artist posters to more than 1,000 mental health facilities for tenth anniversary

Designs by Grayson Perry and Yinka Shonibare will go on show across England and also be for sale to raise funds to support more artist commissions in psychiatric wards [...]

Even at time of the American Revolution, art trade between Britain and US was thriving and complex

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared independence [...]

Comment | Why should artists stay in cities like London and New York when financial pressures are making it harder than ever?

Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention [...]

Workers at the Guggenheim in New York vote to authorise a strike

The vote comes as museum administrators and members of UAW Local 2110 seek to reach a new collective bargaining agreement that addresses healthcare costs and inflation [...]

World Monuments Fund spotlights ten heritage sites for the US’s 250th

The organisation’s new Irreplaceable America programme nods to the importance of the Watts Towers, Black Mountain College and the entire city of New Orleans [...]

Latin American commercial art space to launch in London this October

Founded by the Brazilian collector Flavia Nespatti, Antesala in Fitzrovia will combine selling shows of Latin American artists with an advisory and public programme [...]

Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo among artists who will take part in Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027

The ten-yearly exhibition will include locations outside the city centre that are undergoing transformation [...]

London Library, a favourite haunt of the art and literary crowds, celebrates its 185th birthday

The historic lending library has an extensive collection, including a large selection of art books [...]

New York’s Cathedral of St John the Divine unveils delicate artistic tribute to city’s unhoused population

Nisha Bansil’s sculpture, made up of more than 50,000 glass ginkgo leaves, draws attention to the city’s more than 100,000 unhoused citizens [...]

Pre-Hispanic archaeological discovery in western Mexico features ‘unprecedented’ characteristics

Unique decorative and architectural elements may point to a previously unknown group in present-day Veracruz [...]

New York’s Swiss Institute buys permanent home on the Bowery

The nonprofit, which has moved around the Upper West Side, Tribeca and points in between since its founding 40 years ago, will open at 250 Bowery next spring [...]

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