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Why Instagram’s Shoppable Reels May Be Too Little, Too Late

The tech giant is finally allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions through its in-app product tags. But with so many other influencer monetisation platforms on the market, it faces stiff [...]

The Moment of Truth for the Athlete Endorser is Here

US Consumer Prices Surged in March

Prices experienced their largest increase in years as the war with Iran boosted oil prices and the pass-through from tariffs persisted. [...]

Can Scents Be Supplements?

Niche scent house Initio Parfums Privés is in the business of triggering joy with a brand new offering of functional fragrances, as a number of other perfume labels also use [...]

South Africa’s Old School Is Taking on the Global Athleisure Market

The clothing startup is riding a wave of interest in throwback team jerseys and looking to break out of its home market through partnerships with sports giants such as the [...]

Is the Future of Shopping Hiding Inside Luxury Hotels?

As fashion brands race to ink hotel tie-ups, MML Hospitality is reversing the formula, expanding luxury boutique ByGeorge into new markets through placement in its properties and operating the retail [...]

Dolce & Gabbana Co-Founder Resigned as Chair

The company confirmed the resignation, saying it had ‘no impact whatsoever on the creative activities carried out by Stefano Gabbana.’ According to sources, the mogul is considering options for his [...]

Nike Closes in on UEFA Ball Deal as Adidas Bows Out

The deal precedes the World Cup, also seen as a key football marketing opportunity for Nike. [...]

Kering Will Name Former Chanel Executive, Hotel CEO to Board

Marie-Hélène Chenut spent three decades at Chanel, including in its perfume and haute couture categories. [...]

Luxury’s Q1: A Turnaround Test

In this week’s High Margin newsletter: First-quarter sales at LVMH, Kering and Hermès will take the temperature on whether luxury’s turnaround effort is translating to sales. Plus: Galeries Lafayette’s strategy, [...]

Brunello Cucinelli Q1 Revenue Rises 14%, Lifted By Robust Performance in the US

The high end cashmere specialist offered an early signal on the resilience of the luxury sector following the outbreak of the Middle East war. [...]

Jo Malone ‘Surprised and Sad’ After Being Sued for Using Her Name on Fragrances

The Estée Lauder Companies claims Zara collaboration with the perfumer breaches long-standing naming agreement. [...]

Unilever to Buy Supplements Brand Grüns, Boosting Wellbeing Focus

Unilever said on Thursday it will buy US-based nutritional supplements brand Grüns for an undisclosed amount, as the British consumer goods giant increases its focus on ⁠wellbeing and beauty products. [...]

Does Prestige Skincare Still Matter?

This week, Priya Rao gets into it all: moisturisers and serums, the Biebers’ Rhode collab and Nykaa x Deepika Padukone. [...]

The New Fragrance Opportunity Is Centuries-Old

Fragrance brands like Loewe and Vyrao are capturing a burning desire for upscale incense sticks, with retailers like Violet Grey and FWRD reporting strong sales in the nascent category. Should [...]

K18 Appoints Chief Marketing Officer

The biotechnology hair care brand has hired Kleo Mack, who joins from previous roles at Glossier and Shark Beauty, to create more resonant 'brand moments,' said co-founder Suveen Sahib. [...]

How the Fear of ‘Old Lady Hands’ Mobilised the Beauty Industry

The growing obsession with ‘hand age’ versus ‘face age,’ is driving a boom in the premium handcare and aesthetic treatment market. [...]

Second-Hand Fashion Platform Vinted Reports 38% Jump in Revenue

Vinted’s revenue climbed to €1.1 billion, but net profit dipped due to strategic investments. [...]

Uniqlo-Owner Fast Retailing Flags Record Year After Strong Quarter

Fast Retailing raised its full-year profit forecast after reporting a stronger-than-expected jump in quarterly profit driven by international growth. [...]

Kennedy to Launch Public Health Podcast Ahead of US Midterm Elections

The move follows setbacks to ⁠Kennedy’s efforts to overhaul US vaccination policy, including ⁠a federal court ruling last month that halted plans to reduce childhood vaccinations. [...]

At Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna, Colour Cosmetics Navigate Caution and Creativity

As the global beauty industry convened in Bologna for the world’s largest beauty trade fair, panellists from NellyRodi, Florasis, and Cénée joined BoF’s Shenel Wickramaratne to explore how colour cosmetics [...]

How Gen Z’s Personal Style Obsession Is Changing Fashion

The permanence of digital footprints and a lack of real-life community have historically crippled Gen Z’s sense of individuality when getting dressed. But they’re increasingly preoccupied by what constitutes singularly [...]

How Selfridges Plans to Lock in the 1%

The UK department store chain’s new ‘members club’ — the biggest renovation to its London flagship in a decade — merges private shopping, hospitality and a stage for brand experiences [...]

Help Define the Most Desirable Fashion and Beauty Companies of 2026

BoF launches its annual survey to identify the industry’s top employers and explore how AI and new career standards are reshaping the global fashion and beauty workforce. [...]

Fear of God CEO Exits Label

Bastien Daguzan is stepping away from the brand founded by Jerry Lorenzo as it eliminates the chief executive role. [...]

Zane Li, Marcelle Barbosa Among Fashion Trust US 2026 Award Recipients

The fourth annual gathering awarded five emerging labels with grant money and mentorship at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Tuesday. [...]

Can H&M Prove Sustainability is a Growth Engine? | The Debrief

BoF correspondent Shayeza Walid joins The Debrief to unpack H&M’s unprecedented climate progress paired with a dip in sales — and whether the Swedish giant can escape being slotted in [...]

How to Bring Back a Beloved Watchmaker: The Resurrection of Universal Genève

Breitling CEO Georges Kern wanted to add more to his company’s offering to satisfy its private equity ownership. So he dug into history to find one of the watch collecting [...]

Galeries Lafayette Q1 Sales Stable Despite Middle East War

The French department store chain, which plans to invest €260 million through 2030, saw a 14 percent uptick in sales from Middle Eastern clients in March as overall sales for [...]

Swatch Urges Shareholders to Vote Against Activist Investor’s Bid for Board Seat

The luxury watch owner has urged shareholders to reject activist investor Steven Wood’s renewed board bid, as it moves to defend its governance and luxury brand strategy. [...]

Indian Jeweller Titan Reports Surging Domestic Sales

The jewellery maker, known for its Tanishq and CaratLane brands, posted a 42 percent rise in quarterly domestic sales as consumers ‌in ⁠the world’s most populous country splurged on gold. [...]

Italian Court Lifts Controls Placed on Valentino Unit Over Labour Practices

The special administration imposed on a ‌unit of the luxury group over labour practices of its Chinese-owned subcontractors has ended early. [...]

Puig, Estée Lauder Founding Families to Meet for Combination Talks

The founding ‌families of the Spanish firm and US cosmetics giant will meet this week in New York to negotiate the terms of a potential business combination, a source said. [...]

How War Is Exposing Beauty’s Packaging Problem

From soaring plastic costs to aluminium supply shocks, the US-Israel war with Iran is unraveling the beauty industry’s overreliance on plastic packaging and infrastructural gap for affordable and scalable climate-friendly [...]

The Fashion Jobs Where AI Shines, and Where It Struggles

Companies have raced to put large language models to use for jobs from generating images to writing code, but to get the best use of this innovative form of AI, [...]

Altuzarra Names Marta Lastra as CEO

The former president of Altuzarra will replace founder and creative director Joseph Altuzarra as chief executive. Altuzarra has appointed Marta Lastra as chief executive, the company announced Wednesday. [...]

Levi’s Boosts Full-Year Outlook on Strong Sales; CFO to Retire

Company veteran Harmit Singh’s departure marks a major change for Levi. [...]

India’s Nykaa Sees Fastest Quarterly Revenue Growth in Three Years

Indian fashion-to-beauty retailer Nykaa said on Monday it expects net revenue to grow in the late-20 percent ‌range in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, its fastest in three years. [...]

Once Sweden’s Top Company, H&M’s Struggling to Sell Its Rebound Story

From its 2015 peak, the fast-fashion brand has lost roughly half its market value, erasing tens of billions of dollars in equity. [...]

Worldview | Nykaa Confirms Acquisition Talks With Deepika Padukone’s 82°E

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Vietnam’s textile exports, India’s gold prices and China’s new e-commerce guidelines. [...]

Can the World Cup Solve Nike’s Problems?

Rumoured upcoming collaborations for Nike show how deeply the brand is investing in the World Cup this year. With football fashion on the rise, it’s worth wondering if this run [...]

How Fragrantica Became the Internet’s Perfume Bible

One of the highest-traffic beauty sites in the world, the perfume directory has become a magnet for both brand awareness and controversy. [...]

Nykaa in Talks to Acquire Deepika Padukone’s 82°E

The retailer confirmed negotiations to acquire a majority stake in the clean skincare brand, as it looks to further consolidate its foothold in the booming Indian beauty market. [...]

Dispatches From Shanghai: Inside China’s New Luxury Landscape

On his first visit to Shanghai since before the pandemic, Imran Amed finds a market that has fundamentally changed — from status spending to stealth wealth, from megabrands to homegrown [...]

Unpacking Saks Global’s Post-Bankruptcy Plan

The luxury giant has filed its roadmap to exit Chapter 11 this summer, confirming it will not sell Bergdorf Goodman. Under the new deal, bankruptcy lenders will take full ownership, [...]

The Art of Memory-Making: Inside The Ritz-Carlton’s Experience-Led Strategy

Luxury travel is being reshaped by a demand for discretion, individuality and deeper connection. In an interview with Tina Edmundson, president of luxury at Marriott International, BoF examines how The [...]

Italian Denim Designer Adriano Goldschmied Dies at 82

Remembered as the ‘godfather of denim,’ Goldschmied launched brands including Diesel, Agolde and AG during his decades-long career. [...]

Beauty’s New Challenger Conglomerate Has Always Been Here

By shedding its food and ice cream businesses, Unilever is betting big on beauty. But matching the scale, valuation and category depth of rivals like L’Oréal and The Estée Lauder [...]

Sportswear Brands Have Tough Decisions to Make Around the War in the Middle East

Surging oil prices are raising questions about the structure of supply chains and when companies will need to pass increased costs onto consumers. [...]

Medicines Regulator to Investigate UK Peptide Clinics

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said clinics are not permitted to make medicinal claims for the peptide treatments offered by their service. [...]

SP-Arte underscores Latin America’s resilient rise amid global market recalibration

Brazil’s largest art fair showcases local identity as regional galleries capitalise on shifting international attention [...]

Is Dubai’s loss Palma's gain? Newly revived Mallorca fair offers ’sun, sand and safety’ for wealthy Germans

VIP day of Art Cologne Palma Mallorca saw brisk sales at the lower end, while war in the Middle East boosts the Spanish island's position as a holiday and culture [...]

UK National Gallery to recoup £2m a year after completing voluntary redundancy process

The staff departures have been organised to address the gallery’s projected £8.2m deficit [...]

Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London—podcast

In this Surrealism-themed episode, Ben Luke discusses the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp in half a century, Alyce Mahon’s new book on Dorothea Tanning, and a painting by [...]

A Dutch museum has just put its fake Van Gogh on show

The Kröller-Müller Museum is displaying a forged seascape bought by its founder [...]

Spanish culture ministry denies loan of Picasso's Guernica to Bilbao

A Guggenheim Bilbao display of the monumental painting would have marked the 90th anniversary of the bombing that inspired it [...]

Expo Chicago’s local focus pays off as Midwestern collectors, institutions buoy sales

The fair’s first edition under director Kate Sierzputowski aims to offer a more tightly curated experience [...]

In The Christophers, an aging artist’s unfinished masterpieces are subjects of speculation and scheming

The new Steven Soderbergh film, which stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, takes up questions about how art is valued and how artists become brands [...]

Comment | The market grew in 2025 but ‘interest in art is waning’

Amid global macro shocks and changes in consumer taste, there are signs of future resilience [...]

Louisiana State Museum reaccreditation decision delayed until June 2027

After years of controversies, the organisation that oversees Louisiana’s ten state museums will have to wait until next year for the American Alliance of Museums’ ruling [...]

Melissa Chiu leaving Hirshhorn to take over New York’s Guggenheim Museum

The longtime director of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC, will return to the Big Apple after 12 years away [...]

Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair [...]

Readymades, replicas, reiterations: MoMA show explores Marcel Duchamp the inventor

The first major US exhibition of the conceptual artist in more than five decades presents his multi-sensory work and habit of making and remaking as “very, very today” [...]

London’s V&A launches webpage exploring provenance of its objects

The new collections hub page speaks to an “institutional commitment to accountability and transparency”, the museum’s director Tristram Hunt said [...]

Philadelphia art museums celebrate America's 250th anniversary with blockbuster two-venue show

Sweeping exhibition will include more than 1,000 works by US artists, including paintings, photographs, sculptures and pieces of decorative art [...]

Robilant and Voena gallery founders part ways to start separate ventures with their children

After 22 years in partnership dealing in Old Master, Modern and contemporary art, dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena will form independent firms with the next generation [...]

Greece introduces new law to tackle art forgery

A new registry of experts is being assembled in a bid to tackle counterfeits and prevent damage to art [...]

How US museums are adapting to a new era for technology-based art

New and old institutions in New York, pop-up show of video art in Los Angeles and moving-image artist’s archive crystallise the unique pressures that come with showing and preserving art [...]

The artist who blocked an Ice projectile with her drawing board during protests

Izzy Brourman had been documenting anti-Ice protests in Minneapolis when she became part of the story [...]

April Book Bag: from a Matthew Wong catalogue to a history of dogs in art

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

Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art

We speak to the author of a new book that looks at how making prints has been vital for many famous artists [...]

The story of London's Great Exhibition, as seen through the eyes of artists

The Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive National Art Library provides a rich source for a new angle on the ambitious project in Julius Bryant's latest book [...]

A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran’s artists

Shiva Zahed Gallery, which opened in February, will focus on contemporary artists—but war in Iran poses a major obstacle, even after the announcement of a ceasefire [...]

A book exploring the evolution of J.M.W. Turner’s positions on slavery

The publication examines the journey from the artist’s early patronage, paid for by plantation money, to his depiction of a massacre in “The Slave Ship” [...]

‘It’s essential for understanding what is going on in Ukraine’: new exhibition explores wartime limb loss

Nikita Kadan's Kyiv show emphasises Ukrainians’ “optimism of will” after four years of war [...]

George Costakis, collector and saviour of Soviet avant-garde art, celebrated with Athens exhibition

The anniversary show features works by Malevich, Popova and more, which Costakis rescued from potential oblivion [...]

London galleries Edel Assanti and Emalin both announce expansions

While Edel Assanti's second space will join a cluster forming in St. James's, Emalin will take over the Helmet Row location formerly occupied by Modern Art [...]

Art Cologne heads to the beach with revived Mallorca edition

Nearly two decades after its short-lived debut, the venerable German fair returns to Palma’s newly energised art scene with a strong showing of local galleries [...]

A Brush With... Lorna Simpson—podcast

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

Paying tribute to storied printmaker Kenneth Tyler at the IFPDA Print Fair

On the occasion of the publication of "Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonné, 1986–2001", the National Gallery of Australia is celebrating the printmaker’s legacy and ongoing influence at the New York fair [...]

Native Americans created dice more than 12,000 years ago, study finds

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe [...]

‘The subject demanded a more restrained approach’: Carlos Rolón on revisiting the 1966 uprising in Chicago's Humboldt Park

The Chicagoan artist’s solo exhibition at 65Grand documents the Puerto Rican community, where he lives, through intricate, monochrome drawings, found material sculpture and more [...]

Our pick of the best museum and gallery shows to see in Chicago this spring

From Seoul-born artist Dabin Ahn’s first solo show with Document to dancehall and reggaetón at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [...]

Artists respond to the continuing toll of colonialism in the Americas

A landmark show at Wrightwood 659 features works by more than 35 contemporary Latin American artists [...]

Did the US Holocaust Memorial Museum self-censor to preempt Trump’s wrath?

Two former museum employees point to quiet changes related to programming and language that they think are decidedly telling [...]

London’s National Gallery announces architects for new £350m wing

The Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma and Associates, whose previous museum projects include V&A Dundee, will design the building located on the site of St Vincent House [...]

Artist Michelangelo Pistoletto sends message of ‘preventive peace’ on digital billboards around the world

New public art project entitled "Three Mirrors"—commissioned by digital art platform Circa—will be shown in nine cities [...]

Lalanne mirrors owned by Yves Saint Laurent and a classic Diane Arbus photo: our pick of the April auctions

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month [...]

Gods, emperors and eagles restored in Blenheim Palace roof-rescue mission

The crumbling roof of Winston Churchill’s birthplace has been fixed in a £12m conservation project that the restorers hope will preserve the 18th-century country house for the next 300 years [...]

Museum acquisitions round-up: Andy Warhol in an apron, a solid-silver relief and Christo's luggage rack

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide [...]

Milan’s contemporary art credentials further bolstered by arrival of Paris Internationale

The cutting-edge French art fair is the latest to join an expanding cohort of global players opening in Italy [...]

A renewed focus on rigour and connection at Expo Chicago

The fair’s 2026 edition is the first to be helmed by new director Kate Sierzputowski, who has widened its institutional outreach through local and regional collaborations [...]

Judge rules dealer David Nahmad must return $30m Nazi-looted Modigliani

The case was decided in New York after 11 years of court battles [...]

Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists [...]

Closure of DePaul Art Museum leaves collection in limbo

The fate of the 4,000 objects—including works by Christina Ramberg, Roger Brown, Martin Puryear and Edra Soto—remains unclear [...]

Art Institute of Chicago’s first Norman Rockwell acquisition is a home run

The museum has acquired the beloved US illustrator’s ‘The Dugout’, his 1948 painting of Chicago Cubs players [...]

Irreconcilable differences: Canadian cultural tourism to the US experiences a steep decline

A significant number of Canadians are shunning their neighbours to the south, a phenomenon felt most acutely by smaller museums and those along the border [...]

Monumental 37ft-long Indian scroll goes on public view for the first time at Yale Center for British Art