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Influencer and certified trichologist Yung has turned hair-care expertise and accessible advice into a lucrative career, wherein trust is her biggest asset — and liability. [...]

Companies Left China to Dodge US Tariffs. Now Some Are Heading Back

A year after shifting production and sourcing out of China to avoid higher US tariffs, some companies are learning that finding substitutes for the country's factory ecosystem is not so [...]

Hugo Boss Chairman to Step Down Amid Frasers Group Pressure

Stephan Sturm is stepping down, as the German fashion house's largest shareholder seeks to beef up its board representation alongside its takeover bid for the brand. [...]

War in the Middle East Is Making Clothes More Expensive

Energy, shipping and material costs are going up thanks to the conflict in Iran, with consumers likely to start feeling the impacts this autumn. [...]

BoF Professional Masterclass | Chanel: The Designer Revamp That Worked

Join us for our next BoF Professional Masterclass on Monday, September 21, at 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT as BoF’s Marc Bain and Robert Williams unpack the multi-faceted strategy that [...]

Chanel: The Designer Revamp That Worked

How did a 115-year-old brand rocket back to growth amid a downturn in luxury demand? Drawing on interviews with Chanel fashion president Bruno Pavlovsky, artistic director Matthieu Blazy, group CEO [...]

Zane Li: How to Break Out as a Young Designer

The 25-year-old designer behind LII has gone from fashion graduate to LVMH Prize runner-up in three years. Now, he’s working on turning the buzz into a business. [...]

CFDA’s Steven Kolb Involved in Altercation with PETA Protestors

The trade body’s president physically restrained animal rights activists after they stormed a Cos runway show at New York Fashion Week. [...]

‘Anything Is Possible’: Kai Cenat Collides Worlds of Fashion and Streaming

The livestreaming star’s new fashion line Vivet, debuted in New York on Saturday, owes aesthetic debts to Demna and Ye, but the spirit of community at the project’s core makes [...]

Is London Fashion Week Back in Action?

McQueen’s return from Paris and Christopher Kane’s Mulberry revamp are set to bring fresh energy to a roster that’s relied too heavily on British stalwart Burberry. Shows kick off Thursday. [...]

Why Colleen Allen Turns Away Retailers That Won’t Pay Deposits

The buzzy New York designer joins Imran Amed on The BoF Podcast to discuss leaving menswear at The Row to design for her own body and building a fast-growing womenswear [...]

GQ Philippines Names Danyl Geneciran Editor in Chief

The former Vogue Man Philippines editor will helm GQ’s 23rd international title, whose debut issue features covers starring Darren Criss, Jordan Clarkson and Erwan Heussaff. [...]

Human Made Discloses $3.6 Million Undercover Purchase Price and Long-Term Financial Targets

The Tokyo-listed company will pay $3.6 million in cash for 100 percent of Undercover, with founder Jun Takahashi relinquishing corporate duties to focus solely on design. [...]

Why Nike Is No Longer a Blue Chip Stock

Nike will be removed from the S&P 100 later this month as the brand’s stock continues to plummet. This is the latest sign of lost faith in the Portland-based company [...]

Arizona Accuses L’Oréal of Concealing Cancer Risks Linked to Hair Relaxers

The beauty conglomerate faces over 12,000 similar lawsuits filed by ⁠individuals that have been consolidated in a Chicago federal court. [...]

Colgate-Palmolive Seeks to Divest Personal Care Brands

The consumer goods giant is exploring a sale of mass-market brands including Softsoap, Irish Spring and Speed Stick, that together could fetch over $1 billion, sources told Reuters. [...]

A Look at Investors’ Dwindling Faith in Sportswear

Investors couldn’t get enough of sportswear in the marketplace five years ago. These days, judging by how significantly the market capitalisations of the industry’s biggest brands have shrunk, interest has [...]

Space NK Names New CEO, Andy Lightfoot Steps Down

Chief marketing officer Emma Simpson-Scott will succeed Lightfoot, who is leaving the UK retailer after seven years at the helm. [...]

How to Take Sustainability Marketing Viral

Outerwear brand Arc’teryx piggybacked off a recent episode of the viral video series ‘Subway Takes’ to promote its latest circular design. [...]

Announcing Adidas on BoF Careers

Check out this week’s new partner and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion and beauty talent. [...]

Opinion: It’s Risky to Stock Discounter TJ Maxx With Designer Fashion

TJMaxx has quietly become a force in top-end goods, selling cut-price luxury fashion, but there are perils for both luxury houses and the discount retailer, Andrea Felsted writes. [...]

EssilorLuxottica Managers Defend CEO After Heir Lashes Out

Twenty top lieutenants to CEO Francesco Milleri came to their boss’s defense in an escalating feud with Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, a son of the founder who abruptly left a [...]

How a UK Hairstylist Brought Black Hair Into the Global Spotlight

A new exhibition in London celebrates Charlotte Mensah, whose clients include Janelle Monáe and Zadie Smith and who is on a mission to ensure stylists are trained to work with [...]

The Case for Fun Luxury Makeup

Lara Worthington’s new luxury makeup label Ommage, which lands at Dover Street Parfums Market this month, hopes to bring a playful touch to upscale beauty routines. [...]

Zara Owner Looks to US for Next Phase of Growth

Inditex is investing in the US as a key growth market, CEO Oscar Garcia Maceiras told Reuters, with store revamps and new openings planned across its Zara, Massimo Dutti and [...]

Activist Investor Takes New Stake in Bath & Body Works

The activist investor is recommending the personal-care and fragrance store chain to explore a sale, claiming it has been undervalued and hampered by unstable management. [...]

Is Calvin Klein’s Collection Strategy Working?

It’s been a year and a half since the American denim and underwear giant hired another high-brow European designer to revive its runway line. [...]

How Brands Brought the US Open Off the Court

While ticket prices have made the Grand Slam tournament more exclusive and less accessible to average fans, brands are stepping up to fill the void, creating tennis-themed experiences throughout the [...]

How Henry Zankov Is Rewriting the DVF Wardrobe

The new designer’s Thursday debut bet on subtle updates to Diane von Furstenberg's most recognisable codes as he works to modernise and reignite demand for the iconic New York brand. [...]

Arnault Drops Out of World’s Top 10 Richest as US Tech Dominates

The LVMH chairman’s net worth fell to $143 billion on Thursday, pulling him beneath Warren Buffett, Bloomberg reported. [...]

Dior and A24 Announce Two-Year Collaboration

The partnership, which will kick off at the A24-owned, New York-based Cherry Lane Theatre, will comprise live events for film and theatre featuring established and emerging creative talent. [...]

The 5 Reasons Why Beauty Has Never Been Tougher

This week, Priya Rao contemplates beauty’s latest disruptions. [...]

Princess Diana’s ‘Revenge Dress’ Comes to Auction at Sotheby’s

The black silk evening dress by Greek designer Christina Stambolian could fetch close to $300,000. [...]

Macy’s Raises Annual Targets as Bloomingdale’s Drives Growth

The retailer's improved outlook reflects resilience among higher-income shoppers, despite broader economic uncertainty. [...]

Lilly’s GLP-1 Windfall to Fund Investments in Women’s Health

The pharmaceutical giant has been assembling experts and hunting for new medicines across conditions including bone health and endometriosis, sources told Bloomberg. [...]

American Eagle Shares Slide on Margin Outlook, Weak Sales at Core Brands

Shares slumped over 11 percent in premarket trading Thursday, following a flat quarterly gross-margin forecast as persistent softness at the company's core brands outweighed a second-quarter revenue beat. [...]

Primark to Start Home Delivery as Sales Fall Ahead of Split

The decision is a major about-face for the budget fashion chain as it tries to stem falling sales ahead of its split from Associated British Foods. [...]

Louis Vuitton Loses Sales in China After Fight With Local Tea Chain

A trademark fight with a local tea maker sparked a patriotic backlash that exacerbated a demand slump for LVMH’s most profitable label. [...]

Nike Reassures Executives That Its Stock Is Still in the S&P 500

An internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg sought to clear up misunderstandings around the brand’s coming removal from the S&P 100. [...]

Pavita Cooper Named British Fashion Council Chair, Caroline Issa Named Deputy Chair

Cooper will succeed David Pemsel as the fashion trade body’s chair effective Oct. 1. [...]

Off-White Invites 10 Creatives To Define What Makes An Icon

At a time when luxury brands are searching for new sources of meaning and desirability, Off-White invites 10 creatives to unpack what turns an idea into a timeless reference. [...]

Mary Robinson, Dario Vitale, Willy Chavarria and Angelica Cheung to Speak at BoF VOICES 2026

They join previously announced speakers including Kering’s Luca de Meo, LVMH’s Sidney Toledano, Levi’s Michelle Gass, Tapestry’s Joanne Crevoiserat and Exemplar Luxury Group’s Geoffroy van Raemdonck at BoF’s annual gathering [...]

Ralph Lauren’s Not Looking Back

There was almost nothing nostalgic, reverential or expected about the wildly eclectic collection the senior statesman of American fashion showed on Wednesday, kicking off New York Fashion Week. [...]

Jonathan Cohen Joins J. Mendel as Resident Designer

The New York-based designer is tasked with reviving the 156-year-old luxury fashion house, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018. [...]

Signet Lifts View as Cautious Consumers Splurge on Jewellery

The Jared, Kay and Zales owner raised its outlook for the second time this year as demand for jewellery remains resilient even as shoppers pull back on spending elsewhere. [...]

Has Fashion Had Enough of AI?

As AI makes digital imagery even easier to fake, BoF's Diana Pearl and Marc Bain join Sheena Butler-Young on The Debrief to unpack why some luxury brands are betting on [...]

The CFDA Names Anthony Vaccarello International Designer of the Year, Unveils 2026 Award Nominees

Prize alum Rachel Scott of Diotima is nominated for Womenswear Designer of the Year again, while 2013 winners Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne of Public School are nominated for Menswear [...]

At Geneva Watch Days, Brands Fret About Fate of Suppliers

An industry temperature check in Geneva showed executives concerned about component suppliers as the polarisation of the Swiss watchmaking sector deepens. [...]

European Luxury Stocks Face a Tough Second Half, HSBC Says

HSBC analysts downgraded LVMH and Burberry to hold as they said the second half of the year looks harder for soft luxury to navigate. [...]

How David Is Making Protein Sexy

Fresh off a $2.25 billion valuation for its parent company, the wellness startup has a new launch, campaign and mandate to conquer calorie-counting consumers. [...]

Marlow Moss, overshadowed De Stijl pioneer, gets first London show in decades

A Jewish non-binary lesbian who fled the Nazis and lost much of her work in a 1944 studio fire, Moss's paintings and sculptures are the subject of a commercial exhibition [...]

Largest Roman mosaic opens to the public

The first-century mosaic and accompanying fresco located beneath the Baths of Trajan welcomed its first visitors this past weekend [...]

Paris's Picasso museum reveals designers shortlisted for €55m sculpture garden project

Five teams of designers, featuring architects and landscape designers, will compete for the project, expected to be completed by 2030 [...]

Two Eastman Johnson paintings stolen in the 1970s are recovered

A Connecticut auction house identified the stolen works in a private estate collection and helped return them [...]

‘Rembrandt’s DNA would be the Holy Grail’: new research samples bacteria on the surface of The Night Watch

A installation developed by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a microbes museum in the city’s zoo will depict microbes found in the Old Master painting [...]

Bhutanese artist Pem Lham wins Rubin Museum's prize for Himalayan art

The $30,000 unrestricted cash prize will be awarded at a ceremony with the Queen of Bhutan in attendance [...]

UK government's proposed ‘tourist tax’ should be ring-fenced for the arts, cultural leaders say

There are few controls over how mayors spend the Overnight Visitor Levy income, according to plans announced earlier this week [...]

Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?

Our correspondent Martin Bailey visits the blockbuster show on its first day to see what the experience is really like for the paying public [...]

Jewish collectors in Germany once helped make Berlin the Van Gogh capital of Europe

Their pioneering role is celebrated in an exhibition opening in Hamburg [...]

UK to standardise auction data, as sector rallies support for a new trade body

Panellists at The Art Business Conference, London, argued for greater recognition of visual art's impact [...]

David Hockney's Serpentine show was 'best attended' in gallery's history

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Gerhard Richter's mosaic-like Doha pavilion will open in November

Designed with starchitect Annabelle Selldorf, the six-sided waterside structure will provide a 'three-dimensional experience of Richter's work' [...]

Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF

A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show [...]

The Bayeux Tapestry, damaged heritage in Iran, Tschabalala Self’s Trafalgar Square sculpture—podcast

We take a look at the celebrated embroidery as it goes on view at the British Museum, speak to our reporter Sarvy Geranpayeh about the efforts to protect important sites [...]

Epstein files reading room and bookmobile begin US tour in Dallas

With stops in Texas, Iowa and Nebraska, the display of the complete Epstein files and works by the artist Maria Farmer hopes to make people think about the sex-abuse case [...]

‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self's Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London

The bronze sculpture will move permanently to a private foundation in Fornebu, Norway after its two-year stint in Trafalgar Square [...]

Paris exhibition presents Tintoretto alongside his French fanboys

The Musée Jacquemart-André will show works by the Venetian master, who was revered by artists including Fragonard, Cézanne and Delacroix [...]

Writers for Artforum, The New York Times and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Julia Halperin [...]

Comment | It's high time philanthropy was decentralised

Charles Asprey has shown courage and imagination by donating works to the tiny and remote Pier Arts Centre, instead of one of the UK’s prestigious London-based institutions [...]

From Poussin to Pokémon: why attitudes towards collecting art are shifting

In the second Gilded Age, the super-rich value luxury and collectibles over fine art [...]

Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys launch resale royalty initiative with Bonhams

The voluntary programme will allow consignors to contribute a portion of the hammer price to artists, which Bonhams will match [...]

How Trump’s signature bill could make arts education in the US even more expensive

Many experts are worried that parts of the so-called One Big Beautiful Act could seriously stymie access to art schools [...]

Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy win art world’s ‘Nobel Prizes’

Architect Daniel Libeskind, whose past projects include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, was also a winner of one of this year’s Praemium Imperiale awards [...]

Three UK arts organisations receive new £100,000 Freelands Foundation education award

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, The Burton and Signal are the inaugural recipients of the Freelands Award [...]

An exhibition imagines Emmett Till’s life if it hadn’t been brutally cut short

“If Emmett Till Lived”, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, draws from the collection of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography to visualise a possible narrative of Till’s life had he not [...]

Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch to retire

The steadfast historian leaves the institution after 38 years, the past couple of them marred by political tensions with the Trump administration [...]

‘It was a calling’: 25 years after the 11 September attacks, Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his photos of Ground Zero

The legendary photographer spent nine months documenting the cleanup in Lower Manhattan to complete his series “Aftermath”, which is currently on view at Florida’s NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale [...]

Two Renoir paintings worth €9m stolen from Renoir Museum in France

Thieves took two further works but dropped them as they fled, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer says [...]

Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans

The planned SANAA-designed museum for Budapest’s City Park has been cancelled, leaving the future home of Hungary’s national collection undecided [...]

England’s Pitt Rivers Museum announces its largest repatriation of human remains

Institution at the University of Oxford will return 39 pieces of remains, primarily skulls, to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent by the end of the year [...]

Greece rejects Parthenon marbles loan request from Frankfurt due to British Museum involvement, reports say

The British Museum has agreed to loan two marble fragments to the Liebieghaus exhibition, which recreates the east pediment of the temple for the first time [...]

Can triennials reduce their environmental impact? St Louis’s Counterpublic hopes to be a model

The event’s organisers are working to reduce the ecological footprint of temporary exhibitions and will share findings from their 2026 edition in a climate impact report [...]

Argentina court orders return of Nazi-looted Old Master portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir

Lawyers for the heir, a descendant of the Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, say the outcome is ‘unprecedented’ as it involves the recovery of a work held in private hands through [...]

Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare

London exhibition will examine the life of the crime fiction writer and how she created her most famous characters [...]

Museum acquisitions round-up: an unsettling French mask and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

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

Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos donates 51 contemporary works to four museums in Greece and Scotland

The works—mostly by Greek artists—will go to the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and National Galleries Scotland [...]

Bank opens museum in Spanish city of Santander to display its 1,000-strong art collection

David Chipperfield has converted Banco Santander’s former headquarters into Faro Santander, a new home for works by artists including Velásquez, Titian, Goya, Picasso and Sorolla [...]

A big B’Day gift: Beyoncé gives $2m to the Studio Museum in Harlem

To mark her 45th birthday, the pop music superstar and art collector gave generously to the revered New York City museum [...]

$1bn Lucas Museum of Narrative Art lifts off at long last

After almost a decade of delays and controversies, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson launch a giant space to house a 40,000-piece collection spanning from comics to Star Wars materials 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 [...]

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