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W. David Marx: Fashion Is Bigger Than Ever — But Worse at Rewarding Invention

Author W. David Marx joins Imran Amed on this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast to trace how Japan became a leading indicator for luxury, menswear and streetwear, and why [...]

Julie Kegels Wins LVMH Prize

Zane Li’s Lii and Anil Padia’s Yoshita 1967 took the runner-up Karl Lagerfeld and Savoir-Faire prizes, respectively. [...]

How NBA 2K Became a Fashion Playground

Coach, Bape, Hellstar and CeraVé are just some of the brands featured in NBA 2K27, the latest edition of the popular video game series. BoF spoke to Ronnie Singh, head [...]

One Year After Founder’s Death, Armani Faces Ticking Clock

The late Giorgio Armani stipulated in his will that the sale of around 15 percent of the company should take place between 12 and 18 months after his death, followed [...]

Galliano, Anna Wintour and the Met: What Comes Next?

This week’s decision to pull the plug on a major retrospective on the star couturier amid a growing backlash over his history of antisemitic remarks raises more questions than it [...]

The Back-to-School Beauty Rush

As tweens pack skin barrier creams alongside their pencil cases, retail giants are turning late summer into a major revenue driver for the personal care category. [...]

Is Sports’ Big Bet on Hiring Fashion Creative Directors Paying Off?

The trend of teams and leagues signing up creative directors to design merchandise and shape their public profiles shows no signs of slowing as sports organisations start to see returns [...]

ITP Media Group Acquires Heart Media Group

With the purchase, the Dubai-based publisher of magazines like Harper’s Bazaar Arabia hopes to tap the fast-growing segment of ultra-high-net-worth individuals of Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. [...]

Lululemon Cuts Annual Revenue, Profit Outlook Again a Week Before New CEO Takes Over

Shares of the Vancouver-based apparel brand, which have declined nearly 69 percent in 2025, tumbled about 18 percent in extended trading. [...]

Oura Files for US IPO as Revenue Surges

The wearable maker, popular with athletes, has filed for an initial public offering, showing soaring revenue as well as increasing losses. [...]

Kiko Milano’s American Dream

This week, Priya Rao has makeup on her mind, with the Italian beauty brand’s new Manhattan store, and recent launches from Fara Homidi and Gucci Westman. [...]

Victoria’s Secret Shares Fall on Slowing Sales Growth

Shares in the lingerie maker tumbled in premarket trading on Thursday after it boosted guidance but showed a slower pace of growth. [...]

What Makes Hair Shoppers Trade Up?

Increasingly sophisticated, premium dry shampoos are becoming key acquisition tools — if brands can pry customers away from their drugstore favourites. [...]

UK’s Top Rolex Retailer Sees Strong Growth Fuelled by US Demand

Watches of Switzerland Group Plc is showing little sign of a summer lull with robust US demand and a pickup in its UK business underpinning expectations for strong revenue growth. [...]

As AI Floods the Feed, Fashion Marketers Tap Artists

From Hermès to Loewe, fashion houses are swapping hyper-polished digital graphics for watercolour, paper collages and craft to restore a sense of humanity. [...]

How Reliable Logistics Data Optimises AI Discoverability

With agentic commerce growing, brands need infrastructure that machines can trust and experiences that customers remember. [...]

Fashion Empire Azzas 2154 to Split Two Years After Failed Merger

Both companies that previously comprised one of Brazil’s largest apparel exporters will retain a stake in Farm Rio after separating. [...]

David Protein Maker Valued at $2.25 Billion in New Funding Deal

The maker of the popular low-calorie, zero-sugar David protein bars raised $250 million in a funding round that values the company at $2.25 billion — three times the valuation last [...]

Who’s Winning and Losing in Beauty’s First Half

BoF Senior Beauty Correspondent Daniela Morosini joins Sheena Butler-Young on The Debrief to break down what 2026 earnings so far reveal about the state of beauty — where growth is [...]

Is Fashion Stuck in Its Simulation Era?

A garment’s image has become more important than the garment itself, commentator Eugene Rabkin argues in a new book. While technology helped create this situation, it could also be part [...]

What Sephora’s TikTok Shop Launch Means for Beauty

The debut of the retailer’s new TikTok Shop storefront, which offers limited-edition exclusive products released each month, changes the rules of beauty retail. [...]

Topicals Appoints New CEO From Fenty Beauty

Founder Olamide Olowe has stepped down from her chief executive role as Sukiana Chancy joins the company. [...]

Wella Company’s IPO Plan: Wipe Out Debt, Win New Customers

After swinging back to profit, the American hair and nail care company has filed to go public, with plans to deleverage its business and take on the competition. [...]

Nestlé to Sell Vitamin Portfolio to Yellow Wood for $1 Billion

The deal includes Nature’s Bounty, Ester-C and Gard, as well as its private-label supplement business. [...]

YouTube Inks Amazon Partnership to Boost Online Shopping Bet

YouTube creators can now tag Amazon products in their videos and livestreams, driving more business directly to the enormous global marketplace while taking a cut from sales. [...]

WHP and G-III Finalise $925 Million Marc Jacobs Deal

‘The basic plan is to layer on growth,’ said WHP chairman Yehuda Shmidman. [...]

Pieter Mulier Shows First Versace Look on Nicole Kidman

The designer soft-launched his tenure at the Prada-owned label months ahead of his planned runway debut, dressing Kidman for the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Practical Magic 2.’ [...]

Fashion Capitalises on a More Exclusive US Open

With ticket prices soaring, attending the US Open is becoming a status symbol. Consumers may be angry about it, but fashion sees an opportunity. [...]

Worldview | Buenos Aires Fashion Week Holds Firm Despite Manufacturing Woes

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features India’s cash-for-gold boom, Brazilian denim giant Vicunha and Cettire’s turbulent year in Australia. [...]

What’s Driving Saudi Arabia’s Beauty Transformation

The country has emerged as the GCC region’s largest cosmetics market as societal change spurs sales and homegrown brands. [...]

Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-in Camera

The UK company's new device uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback on oral hygiene. [...]

Fashion’s Climate Emissions Increased Almost 14% Over Two Years

Greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2023 and 2024, due in part to increased global production of fibre, especially polyester, according to a new report by the Apparel Impact Institute. [...]

France Targets Shein and Temu With Fast-Fashion Fines

The penalties are part of a law passed in June that targets the extreme end of fast fashion and aims to address environmental concerns from overproduction. [...]

Kering Names Sabina Belli Italy Chief and New CEOs for Pomellato and DoDo

Charlotte Fournet will head Pomellato and Krizia Cucurachi will lead DoDo as Luca de Meo continues his management reshuffle, tapping insiders for the key roles [...]

Wella Files for US IPO

The owner of Ghd and OPI, backed by investment firm KKR, plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange. [...]

Did Shein Pass Its IPO Test?

The ultra-fast fashion retailer closed its first day of trading flat as investors weigh slowing growth and mounting challenges to its business model. [...]

Report | Inside Fashion & Sports E-Commerce: Focusing on What Matters

This new flagship report reveals that fashion and sports leaders are chasing what’s new in e-commerce while fundamental challenges remain unresolved. Based on surveys of 10,000 consumers and 150 senior [...]

BoF LIVE | Inside Fashion & Sports E-Commerce 2026-2027

Join us for our next BoF LIVE on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT as the authors of our latest report ‘Inside Fashion & Sports E-Commerce’ unpack [...]

Opinion: China’s Beauty Giant Proya Has Its US Strategy Backwards

China’s biggest beauty company is getting ahead of itself by announcing distribution at Ulta Beauty without first building meaningful name recognition among American shoppers, writes Bloomberg’s Juliana Liu. [...]

Shein Prices Hong Kong IPO Below Top End of Range, Raises $1.74 Billion

Existing investors in the fast-fashion giant who participated in the offer include billionaire Michael Bloomberg's family office Willett Advisors, French billionaire entrepreneur and investor Xavier Niel and Microsoft Corp. [...]

Amazon Sued by FTC Over Claims It Misled Advertisers on Pricing

The FTC and several state attorneys general have been investigating claims that Amazon had not properly disclosed the terms and pricing related to its ads. [...]

Kris Van Assche Relaunches His Fashion Label

The former creative director of Dior Homme and Berluti is bringing back his namesake brand with designs for men and women. [...]

Shein Shares Plunge Up to 17% on Grey Market Ahead of Hong Kong Debut

More than 63 million shares changed hands leading up to the formal debut on Tuesday. [...]

John Galliano Met Retrospective Cancelled

The designer withdrew from the exhibition, planned in his honour, amid mounting backlash over antisemitic remarks. ‘I have decided, with great sadness, that it is best for the exhibition not [...]

Semcap Invests in UK Wellness Platform Healf

The private equity firm’s beauty and wellness division, led by Vasiliki Petrou, has made a minority investment in the fast-growing e-tailer. [...]

Victoria Beckham Swings to Profit

The fashion and beauty brand flagged strong demand for tailoring, occasion wear and elevated daywear as it posted a 15 percent rise in annual sales. [...]

Ib Kamara Exits Off-White

The label founded by Virgil Abloh is parting ways with its creative director two years after LVMH sold the brand to Bluestar Alliance. No successor has been named. [...]

How AI’s Nouveau Riche Are Spending on Beauty

Silicon Valley is minting new multi-millionaires — and billionaires — at a rapid rate, as tech firms like SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic target huge IPOs. Fashion, travel and wellness are [...]

Controversy Won’t Stop Brands From Doubling Down on the WNBA

The league is set to announce a new partnership with Brooklyn-based demi-fine jewellery brand Catbird, its first official jewellery partner, proving that despite recent controversies, the WNBA remains an attractive [...]

Shein Comes to Market… Finally

The retailer begins trading in Hong Kong at a valuation of about $26 billion, a quarter of the nearly $100 billion it commanded at its 2022 peak. What happened to [...]

Geles Cabrera, the pioneering Mexican sculptor, has died, aged 100

Through her sinuous approach to the human figure, Cabrera forged a distinctive sculptural language and challenged conventions [...]

Toledo Museum of Art partners with Ethiopian Heritage Authority to find solutions for ‘objects in limbo’

Through the new partnership, the museum is already in the process of returning five artefacts from a private collection to Ethiopian authorities [...]

House that featured second-oldest astronomical observatory in the Americas reopens after $1m conservation project

The National Service for Cultural Heritage financed the project at Casa Mouat in Valparaíso, Chile [...]

‘Attribution decay’ complicates the picture of AI-generated images, scientists find

A new study by two MIT researchers puts forward a framework for addressing just how difficult it may be to definitively connect an AI-generated image to any specific source material [...]

Iran’s heritage experts race to repair damaged sites as negotiations stall

Preservation specialists are pressing ahead, despite no guarantee that the US-Israel war on Iran is over [...]

What did you miss? Summer art world news and what’s coming up—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke speaks to three editors at The Art Newspaper about developments in July and August as well as events they are looking forward to [...]

‘Putin didn’t win; art won’: Venice Biennale president defends decision to allow Russia’s participation

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said he would do “everything” again in regards to his clash with the Italian government and the European Commission on the issue [...]

Long-hidden Van Gogh self-portrait to star in major Paris exhibition

Now owned by the Niarchos Greek shipping family, it will be loaned to a huge show on the fabled pioneer collector Gustave Fayet [...]

Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry

As the British Museum opens its decades-in-the-making exhibition of the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery, we pored over its past and present journey [...]

From DIY endeavour to London art world mainstay: Bold Tendencies celebrates 20 years

The not-for-profit organisation puts on ambitious art, music and performance in the unlikely setting of a multi-storey car park in Peckham [...]

Leading Mexican curator Cuauhtémoc Medina tapped to organise next edition of Guatemala’s Bienal de Arte Paiz

Medina will curate the 25th iteration of one of Latin America’s second-oldest biennial, opening in November 2027 [...]

From Dante’s Hell to Zelda: rare fantasy map collection to go on view in Zurich

Cartographical works tied to famous works of fiction will feature in an exhibition at Zentralbibliothek Zürich [...]

Amid volatile Korean economy, galleries at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf opt for cautious pricing and fresh faces

Opening days of Seoul's Art Week show the South Korean market entering a more mature, if less ebullient, phase [...]

Police and firefighters break into gallery after sculpture is mistaken for a person in distress

The sculpture, of an art preparator whose torso is concealed in a crate with their legs sticking out, prompted a late-night rescue mission at Vancouver’s Access Gallery [...]

Houston exhibition explores memory and mythmaking in the American landscape

‘Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee’ brings together work of Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee that highlights histories hidden in the environment [...]

Man discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard while digging a terrace in his garden

Treasure trove comprises 700 10th-century objects and fragments, weighing almost 18.5kg [...]

Rembrandt self-portrait returns to German city 80 years after it was illegally removed

The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha [...]

Answering to the AfD? What Germany’s regional elections could mean for arts funding

With the far-right party projected to win a high proportion of votes in the state of Saxony-Anhalt this weekend, German museum leaders are sounding the alarm about potential restrictions on [...]

‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech [...]

Leader of the Art Gallery of Ontario will step down after a decade at the helm

During Stephan Jost’s tenure, the leading art museum in Toronto has launched construction of a new contemporary art gallery, added more than 18,000 pieces to its collection and navigated plenty [...]

Paris prosecutors seek trial for Giuliano Ruffini over allegedly forged Old Master paintings

Ruffini has been the focus of an international forgery scandal dating back to 2016 [...]

The Big Review: Frida, The Making of an Icon ★★★½

Tate show provides a decent selection of the artist’s work but somewhat unravels in its attempt to fully assess her star status [...]

A Churchill painting that mysteriously fell into the hands of a Nazi collaborator is on show in London

The work—which was praised by Picasso—has taken an improbable route to an exhibition at the Wallace Collection [...]

Four artists explore AI's effect on culture as part of Serpentine's new art and technology fellowship

Artists Refik Anadol and Cao Fei are among the judges for the London-based Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship [...]

‘You have to take care’: behind the painstaking restoration of a rare early Art Nouveau house in Brussels

Visitors to the architect Victor Horta’s home can see the restoration in progress [...]

A brush with… Sunil Gupta—podcast

Sunil Gupta talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to film-makers, and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work [...]

Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego faces financial and leadership crisis

After the museum laid off almost half its staff over the summer, its main campus was shut down and employees are calling for the removal of its director [...]

The art world’s billionaire problem is getting worse, research suggests

A new paper links widening wealth inequality to the market’s growing reliance on ultra-rich collectors [...]

‘Death is already woven into our everyday lives’: Sook Jin Jo on life's big issues—and the inspiration of cats

As her first major show in her homeland opens, the Korean American artist discusses her medium-spanning practice [...]

Many roads to modern art: Frieze Seoul spotlights overlooked artists

The new Spotlight section brings together 12 solo presentations of 20th-century artists [...]

In Korea and Japan, art breaches an often troubled shared history

An exhibition organised jointly in Yokohama and Seoul explores painful, and sometimes neglected, episodes from the countries’ past [...]

Busan and Gwangju biennials take a deep dive into resistance and change

This year’s editions between them showcase 89 artists and collectives, and explore Korea’s history of protest alongside the transformational power of reinvention [...]

Gwangju’s city government apologises to China over Taiwan Pavilion naming

Jeonnam Gwangju City has officially reiterated its support for the “One China Policy” after an exhibition at the Gwangju Biennale was named after the the autonomous island of Taiwan [...]

South Korea’s art market correction signals maturity

Though the value of the country’s market has yet to regain its 2022 peak, it has consolidated its position as a key regional centre for art [...]

September Book Bag: from Don McCullin’s powerful Vietnam images to a behind-the-scenes dive into Paula Rego’s studio

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

‘Those pieces were simply not meant to be part of my collection’: Mari Hong on avoiding regret

“Living with art” is the collector’s mantra, as she fills her home with the works she buys—and the ephemera she gathers from the many fairs and biennials she visits each [...]

Five shows to see during Seoul art week

There are plenty of exhibitions to see beyond the fairs [...]

Korea’s new art market law gets off to a shaky start

Part one of the Art Promotion Act, which came into effect in July, has left dealers struggling to comply amid widespread administrative confusion [...]

When Hockney met Betty: new book uncovers mysterious Beverly Hills Housewife in famous Los Angeles painting

Author James Cahill's account of the burgeoning 1960s LA art scene explores links between collector Betty Freeman and the late Yorkshire artist [...]

A bonanza of Bayeux Tapestry books to accompany the blockbuster British Museum exhibition

There is plenty to read about the medieval masterpiece as it returns to England for the first time in almost 1,000 years [...]

Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash

A chorus of Jewish community leaders, donors, politicians and others criticised the Met’s decision to honour Galliano in light of a 2011 conviction for an antisemitic hate crime [...]

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham reverses position on returning Parthenon Marbles to Greece

In 2023, when he was mayor of greater Manchester, Burnham had expressed unequivocal support for returning the Parthenon Marbles with ‘no strings’ attached [...]

Online platform connects hundreds of emerging Iranian artists with collectors abroad

The Continuum initiative provides rare access to a global audience and market [...]

Alleged antiquities smuggler’s children convicted of money laundering in Germany

A criminal court in Hamburg has ordered the confiscation of €32m in sales proceeds from Serop Simonian’s children, who plan to appeal their conviction [...]

London Science Museum's sponsorship deal with BP ends after almost 25 years

Museum leadership said the partnership would end on 31 August ‘at the end of its agreed term’ [...]

Curator offers crucial perspective on Hong Kong’s burgeoning 1980s and 1990s art scene in new book

Oscar Ho Hing-kay outlines the growing visibility of boundary-breaking local artists and their responses to the 1997 handover to China [...]

Essay collection explores how the West’s museums of plundered African artworks can be dismantled

Analysis documents how artists and filmmakers have reacted to colonialism and pillage in Africa [...]

An expert’s guide to Anish Kapoor: five must-read books

With a new show at London’s Hayward Gallery, an expert chooses books that delve into the established sculptor’s life and work over five decades [...]

Why I launched a new photobook imprint—veteran bookseller and publisher reveals next career move

Foxed Editions co-founded by Rudi Thoemmes focuses on overlooked parts of photographic history [...]

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen from Vienna museum in brazen daytime heist

Authorities are searching for two unmasked men who bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts, smashed a display case, snatched the valuable necklace and walked out [...]

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