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Why Does Chanel Need to Sponsor a Substack?

As the platform matures as a media channel, a slew of beauty brands are turning to its most trusted writers for a more intimate form of audience engagement. [...]

The Brain Is the Next Frontier for Unregulated Peptides

People are experimenting with the substances in a quest for sharper thinking, despite legal grey areas and little published research. [...]

Lululemon Hires Athleta Head in Management Shakeup

Maggie Gauger is joining Lululemon as chief product officer as new CEO Heidi O’Neill looks to revive sales. [...]

Levi’s Growth Slows After Marketing Misstep

The company lost out in its third quarter because of a decision to market baggy jeans over low rise, but still raised its sales outlook for the year. [...]

Fast Retailing Annual Profit Jumps 32%, Beats Expectations

The Uniqlo owner hit a new record annual profit for the fifth year in a row, boosted by strong results in all regions. [...]

Satoshi Kondo: Crafting Issey Miyake’s Comeback

The designer, handpicked by the late Mr. Miyake three years before his death, is piloting a renaissance at one of Japan’s most storied fashion labels, decades after its heyday. [...]

The Verdict on Luxury Fashion’s Designer Reset

A year into fashion's biggest wave of creative director changes, BoF's Chief Luxury Correspondent Robert Williams joins Sheena Butler-Young on The Debrief to break down which luxury houses have turned [...]

Boots Acquired by Canada’s Weston Family for $8.9 Billion

The Westons agreed on Wednesday ‌to buy the UK's Boots from Sycamore Partners and the Pessina family, pledging to invest in the retailer's stores and online and expand healthcare services. [...]

Vogue Arabia to Launch Annual Ball

The magazine’s inaugural ball will take place in November, the latest in a growing portfolio of live events hosted by publisher Condé Nast. [...]

The Indie Beauty Guide to GEO

While conglomerates like L’Oréal and Estée Lauder dominate chatbot recommendations, independent labels like Divi and Omnilux are boosting AI traffic by targeting niche queries and overhauling backend data. [...]

Lacoste Fired CEO Ahead of Paris Runway Show, Sources Say

The French tennis and lifestyle brand quietly fired its chief executive, Eric Vallat, shortly before the brand’s latest ‌Paris fashion show, sources told Reuters. [...]

Frasers Group Acquires 8.8% Stake in Under Armour

The move extends British company’s push into sports brands following a recent purchase of Puma stock. [...]

US Luxury Spending Slows, Citi Data Shows

US credit card spending on luxury brands fell for a third consecutive month in September, according to data from Citi. [...]

Sarah Burton: Cracking the Givenchy Code

Two years since taking on one of French couture’s most high-profile — and trickiest — assignments, the designer is rebuilding the house founded by Hubert de Givenchy from the inside [...]

How to Make Customer Interactions More Meaningful at Scale

At a leadership breakfast during Paris Fashion Week, executives from Dior, Balenciaga, Jacquemus, Kering, Sessun and more joined BoF and Klaviyo to discuss the urgency to drive loyalty in a [...]

Better Cotton Releases First Impact Report in Five Years as Scrutiny on Sustainability Schemes Grows

The world’s largest sustainable cotton initiative is aiming to bolster trust and confidence in its programmes with data-backed evidence of its positive impact. [...]

Complexity or Cleverness in Paris

Sacai showed that complicated fashion can work. But technical innovation doesn’t always add up to a convincing vision, Angelo Flaccavento writes, also reporting from Louis Vuitton, Loewe and Jean Paul [...]

Frasers Group Steps Up Luxury Push With New Division, Larger Burberry Stake

The British retail group has brought its stakes in Burberry, Hugo Boss and Mulberry together with its luxury retail operations. [...]

Where Can Nike Find Its Next Halo?

When Nike is at its peak, there’s usually a central product that gives it a cultural resonance that no other brand can touch. Typically, that’s come from Jordan Brand’s retro [...]

Asos Customers Receive ‘Hack’ Notification Threatening Leak

The retailer is investigating after users of its mobile app received a notification claiming hackers had ‘fully compromised’ company data. [...]

The New Platform Bringing Latin Beauty to the World

L-Beauty, a new e-commerce site created by the non-profit organisation Latinas in Beauty wants to introduce shoppers, retailers and investors to emergent Latin-owned brands. [...]

How Victoria Beckham Won in Beauty

The line’s cosmetics offer, which makes up 60 percent of the designer’s business, has become a hit that global retailers and acquirers can no longer ignore. [...]

Report: L’Oréal Explores Unloading Chemical-Related Liabilities

The French company has engaged restructuring advisers to explore options for rising US legal liabilities linked to its use of talc and other chemical ingredients in some of its cosmetic [...]

Worldview | Man Behind TikTok and Douyin Becomes Asia’s Richest Person

This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Qatar’s resilient jewellery market, South Korean e-tailer W Concept and Brazil’s newest department store. [...]

Indian Fast-Fashion Retailer Trent Jumps on Strong Sales Growth

Shares in the Tata Group-owned business rose nearly 11 percent on Tuesday as the success of a rapid store expansion project boosted confidence in the company’s growth outlook. [...]

How Beauty Brands Can Win When Every Channel Counts

Last month, The Business of Beauty and Front Row gathered beauty executives and investors in New York to discuss how content, the evolving channel mix, brand consistency and AI search [...]

Marc Jacobs: Plotting Life After LVMH

A Charli XCX cover, a Sofia Coppola documentary, a guest appearance on Broadway… America’s star designer is still all over pop culture as he opens a new chapter for his [...]

Naomi Campbell Wins Appeal Against Charity Trustee Ban

A London tribunal ruled that the misuse of funds at the charity the supermodel founded had been ‌concealed from her. [...]

Gimme More: Matthieu Blazy’s First Birthday at Chanel

In only 12 months, he’s changed the fashion world — and his new collection offers more of the spectacular same. [...]

The AI Dermatologist Can See You Now

An AI-based healthcare startup started offering acne prescriptions to Utah patients on Monday, the first time a state has allowed such technology to replace the role of a doctor. [...]

The Executive Briefing: How To Outperform the US Market; Chanel’s Designer Revamp; Zalando’s AI Advantage; Artists As Anti-AI Slop

BoF examines new mindsets of US shoppers and unpacks Chanel’s designer revamp. Also, how a fashion e-tailer is pulling ahead on AI and why fashion marketers are tapping artists. Read [...]

The Growing Business of Getting Ready

Beauty brands have long paid to be featured in ‘Get Ready With Me’ videos. Now, they’re designing their products and tools for maximum screentime. [...]

Miuccia Prada: Future-Proofing a Fashion Dynasty

As she prepares to hand power to the next generation, the doyenne of Italian fashion contemplates what makes Prada Prada and what she’ll leave behind, as well as more immediate [...]

How Unilever Attracts and Develops Beauty’s Next Generation of Talent

As the beauty industry evolves to cover new frontiers, global beauty giant Unilever is proactively shaping its talent strategy to meet the new business realities. [...]

Valentino and Miu Miu: Italians Do It Better in Paris

Michele goes deep, Miuccia gets happy. [...]

Paris Day Six: The Magic of Reality

Celine’s Michael Rider and Hermès’ Nadège Vanhée made real clothes feel enchanting. Plus, Comme des Garçons, Junya Wantanabe, Ann Demeulemeester and more. [...]

Fashion’s Most Influential Figures Come Together at The BoF 500 Gala 2026

Fashion leaders, rising talents and cultural figures representing more than 100 nationalities gathered in Paris to celebrate The BoF 500 Class of 2026, the newest additions to the definitive index [...]

Uniqlo-Owner Fast Retailing, Levi’s and Aritzia Face US Test

The three apparel companies report earnings, providing an update on the resilience of US shoppers. [...]

Every Look From The BoF 500 Gala 2026 Red Carpet

Sarah Burton, Bhavitha Mandava, Harit Buayoi and Napatsakorn Pingmuang were among those who celebrated new entrants and longstanding members of The BoF 500 community during Paris Fashion Week. [...]

Issey Miyake and Givenchy: Art and Science

Satoshi Kondo and Sarah Burton show us why they’re BoF 500 cover stars. [...]

Marc Jacobs: ‘I Don’t Think That the Creative Is to Blame’

After nearly three decades under LVMH, the designer is opening a new chapter at his namesake label with new owners and no guarantees. Ahead of an in-depth BoF 500 cover [...]

Dutch Eyewear Chain Hans Anders Halts Sale of Meta Glasses, Citing Privacy Concerns

A growing Dutch outcry over the glasses mirrors a broader backlash against smart glasses equipped with cameras. [...]

Can Shein Build a Brand?

The ultra-fast-fashion giant’s share price sank to a record low after it released its first results as a public company earlier this week. With sales growth under pressure, the company [...]

Nike Kicks the Can Down the Road Again

Nike’s comeback timeline just got even longer. The brand announced a new four-year restructure during its first-quarter earnings call that will include more layoffs. [...]

Introducing The BoF 500 Class of 2026

Our newest BoF 500 members reflect the shifting shape of the global fashion industry, writes Imran Amed. [...]

Off-White’s 10x10 Creatives on Remixing Fashion’s Codes and Building Icons

At Milan Fashion Week, Off-White staged an activation for 10x10, its project inviting musicians Kid Cudi and A$AP Nast; designers Ava Nirui, Raul Lopez, Guillermo Andrade and Yuta Hosokawa; and [...]

Rick Owens: ‘I Want to Be the Kenneth Anger of Fashion’

The pentagrams in his spectacular new collection not only celebrate otherness, they’re also his 'fuck you' to judgy conservatives, writes Tim Blanks. [...]

Why Audemars Piguet Is Pushing Into High Jewellery

The privately-owned Swiss watchmaker is hiring gemologists to bulk up expertise in high jewellery — and is unveiling its latest collection in Paris. [...]

Zara’s First John Galliano Collection Lands

Galliano’s debut collection for the fast-fashion retailer rolled out in Paris, London and Madrid — the first public test for the designer since the Met museum pulled plans for a [...]

Nike Announces Yet Another Round of Restructuring Amid Sales Drop

Following a 4 percent drop in quarterly sales, Nike is overhauling global operations under its new 'Pace' plan — a move that includes job cuts that will cost the company [...]

Artists create works inspired by Paul McCartney lyric for War Child charity auction

More than 60 artists have donated work including Genieve Figgis, Alvaro Barrington, Joshua Donkor and Sanya Kantarovsky [...]

Hong Kong gallery Tang Contemporary closes amid row over outstanding debts

The gallery’s Wong Chuk Hang branch faces accusations of unpaid artist fees and legal action [...]

Will Beryl Cook finally make it into Tate Modern?

The reported acquisition of a work suggests that the London museum is revising its opinion of the late artist [...]

‘I am such a lazybones’: New book reveals Claude Monet’s life through his letters

A collection of the artist’s correspondence provides fascinating new insights, from his domestic life to acquisition negotiations [...]

Wealthy Gen Z collectors are the art market’s biggest spenders, survey finds

The latest “Survey of Global Collecting” from Art Basel and UBS also found a growing number of buyers are bypassing dealers and auction houses to purchase directly from artists [...]

K-pop star RM shows off his collection of Korean art at SFMoMA

The museum appears to have a blockbuster on its hands—with 50,000 tickets already reserved for the BTS singer’s curatorial debut [...]

Artist unveils golden statue of a nude Donald Trump at European parliament building

The Danish artist Jens Galschiøt also gave out 3D-printed miniatures of the sculpture to visitors of the Strasbourg exhibition [...]

Pop-up exhibition outside MoMA highlights connections between trustee Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein

A mobile version of the Epstein files reading room was parked near the museum on Tuesday, with Epstein survivors in attendance, as part of a campaign to pressure MoMA to [...]

Huge bronze book cover by Salvador Dalí stolen in latest French museum theft

The 150kg cover, embellished with gold, precious stones and pearls, was burgled from the C. Karoutzos Contemporary Art Centre in central France on Sunday night [...]

A brush with… Cecilia Vicuña—podcast

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

Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director

Noujaim previously served as the United Arab Emirates-based museum’s scientific, curatorial and collections management director [...]

Ukraine rebuilds museum devoted to controversial national figure

Roman Shukhevych was a key figure in country’s fight for independence, but has also been accused of being a Nazi collaborator [...]

Brooklyn Museum’s $48m energy-efficiency retrofit is latest in New York City’s effort to cut emissions

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has undertaken similar projects at cultural institutions across the five boroughs, including the Museum of the Moving Image and the Metropolitan Museum of Art [...]

A documentary about and largely filmed by blind girls offers a casually radical perspective

“For the Moon”, the new film by artist Éric Baudelaire, unfolds from the points of view of five students from a school for the blind in Paris [...]

Toronto biennial brings monument to resilience and spiritual liberation to a Sikh community centre

Nirbhai (nep) Singh Sidhu’s large-scale sculpture commission is now a permanent fixture of the Scarborough Gurdwara [...]

London's Victoria & Albert Museum planning to launch voluntary exit scheme

The scheme comes after trade unions representing museum staff held strikes in September, with negotiations still ongoing [...]

Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato

“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life [...]

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing

Renovation expands exhibition spaces and provides new facilities as well as creating better links with its neighbour, the Guggenheim Bilbao [...]

Jean-ius portraiture: Nan Goldin collaborates with fashion house Acne Studios

The US artist and activist is helping the Stockholm brand celebrate its 30th anniversary in style [...]

Historic building in old Danish artist colony transformed into luxury hotel

CORI Hornbaek Hotel, just outside Copehagen, brings together brings together contemporary art, Mediterranean élan and the local speciality—hygge [...]

From an indoor forest to a toilet made with seaweed: Design Museum Gent reopens after €20m eco-focused expansion

Museum renovation showcases creative and sustainable design ideas to help transform contemporary life [...]

A year into the Gaza ceasefire, art is a means of survival

Palestinian artists inside and outside the Gaza Strip share their experiences of loss, displacement and survival, and how art continues to help them navigate life amid an uncertain ceasefire [...]

Museum of the City of New York opens new centre for social activism

The Puffin Foundation Center for New York Activism’s inaugural exhibitions focus on activism in the Big Apple and the living cultures of the Lenape [...]

Phoenix Art Museum receives $5m gift for new Sri Lankan and South Asian art galleries

The local philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran hopes his gift will deepen cultural understanding of the region and elevate its art [...]

How an EU-funded research programme has been future-proofing art conservation

GoGreen has brought together experts from 13 institutions to explore sustainable methods—testing some out on a 1906 Tiffany dish [...]

British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours

Some ticket holders have reportedly queued for up to two hours to enter the blockbuster exhibition, while others have been turned away [...]

Behind Turkey’s race to save Gallipoli’s vanishing shipwrecks

A recently launched project called Deep Heritage aims to slow the disintegration of dozens of warships sunk off Turkey's coast during the devastating First World War campaign [...]

New book offers feminist re-evaluation of Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of France’s great 18th-century artists

The study explores how Valleyer-Coster cultivated an elite clientele in a turbulent France while navigating the pressures placed on women artists [...]

Comment | ‘Britart’ started well in the 1990s—but it soon became as bad as Britpop

Can Tate Britain's new show escape nostalgia and knock down the monstrous mythologies surrounding the Young British Artists? [...]

Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership

Recent US lawsuits, including a row over underpricing, reveal weaknesses in the market [...]

Grounding ourselves: new exhibition in London explores our complex relationship to the earth

“Listening to the Earth” at Drawing Room brings together ten artists who work with the earth as both subject and material [...]

Comment | The Brooklyn Museum’s manga exhibition reveals the opportunities and challenges of tackling a global phenomenon

The Japanese art form has a fervent and wide-reaching community around it, which the New York museum has incorporated in its process [...]

‘The struggle creates genius’: as it grows and matures, Atlanta Art Fair spotlights the city’s hard-working artists

The fair’s third edition, its largest yet, saw a bevy of sales in its opening hours, primarily in the four- and five-figure range [...]

Untitled Art, Houston taps into a city where artists can thrive

The second edition of the fair highlights Houston’s galleries, collectors and institutions, while artists point to affordability, strong connections and a spirit of experimentation [...]

Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction

The painting, discovered in an estate sale in Michigan this summer, set a new auction record for Abercrombie at a Freeman’s sale in New York [...]

‘An inexhaustible source of inspiration’: how the spirit of jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger lives on at Tiffany & Co

The jewellery house and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris are partnering to restore thousands of the designer's sketches and personal documents [...]

Exhibition at New York's Met examines how Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock's relationship enriched their art

A new show argues that the Abstract Expressionist power couple could never have made their groundbreaking works without each other’s support [...]

Nine Swiss museums to investigate provenance of thousands of objects from Cameroon

The research project has been awarded £91,000 in federal funding for 2027–28 [...]

The story behind the record-price Van Gogh up for auction in November

“Blossoming Chestnut Trees”, which has been hidden away for over 60 years, is being sold by Sotheby's for the Blaquier-Arrieta family of Argentina [...]

Renoir and Love in London, political storm around Kanal in Brussels, Ronald Moody—podcast

In this week's episode, Ben Luke previews a new Renoir exhibition at London's National Gallery, learns about the controversy around the opening of Kanal in Brussels, and explores a sculpture [...]

Matronage over patronage: the Prado and Rijksmuseum team up to research women rulers’ impact on art

The collaborative project will explore the women of Habsburg Empire and include an exhibition at the Amsterdam museum in 2029 [...]

Contemporary Istanbul founder planning new fair on city's Asian side

The 21st edition of the fair occupied a new single-floor site at the Ottoman era shipping yard Tersane Istanbul [...]

Latest edition of Portland triennial offers powerful projects but lacks a cohesive theme

The New York-based curator Lumi Tan has brought together 28 artist projects that are captivating yet disparate for the Converge 45 triennial in Oregon [...]

The Japanese photographer who turned an empathetic eye on rural communities of the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century

A new documentary about Frank Matsura captures the incredible journey of an immigrant photographer who created indelible images and served as a bridge across cultures [...]

Strongest El Niño in decades threatens Peru’s adobe heritage

Authorities are scrambling to protect more than 10,000 coastal archaeological sites as experts accuse them of insufficient planning despite warnings [...]

Blind man sues British Museum over lack of Bayeux Tapestry audio description

London institution says that in-person audio-described tours will be offered, and that it may add an audio-described tour to the exhibition's app [...]

Doubts over financial sustainability of Brussels’s new Kanal museum cloud upcoming opening

The managing director Yves Goldstein will step down immediately after the opening in November due to “a difference of opinion” over the institution‘s future [...]

Iván Argote—the artist behind the infamous pigeon sculpture for New York's High Line—to debut permanent installation in Italy

This month, the Colombian artist will unveil his site-specific sculpture in an ancient Piedmontese town, as well as a solo gallery show in London [...]

New York's Split Level art fair returns to Madison Avenue design showroom for second edition

The fair is once again taking over Rimadesio’s design showroom, giving pride of place to young galleries with a focus on experimentation and affordability [...]

Fifth edition of Mexico's Guadalajara Art Week reaffirms city’s status as a cultural destination

The annual event’s expanding programme signals growth while retaining an intimate atmosphere [...]

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