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Dick’s Sporting Goods Cuts Annual Forecasts as Demand Weakens

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Essilorluxottica Founder’s Son Quits Management Roles After Reported Rift With CEO

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Shein’s IPO Won’t Mask Its Sustainability Challenges

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Trump Administration Moves to Impose Over $100,000 Fee for H-1B Worker Visas

A BoF analysis previously found hundreds of workers employed by dozens of fashion and beauty companies use the visas for skilled workers. [...]

ShopMy Might Be Bringing Affiliate Links Into Your Group Chats

ShopMy Might Be Bringing Affiliate Links Into Your Group Chats

ShopMy, fashion’s favoured affiliate marketing platform, lets shoppers make money off their friends. [...]

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Shein’s Purchase of Everlane Faces US National Security Review

Shein’s Purchase of Everlane Faces US National Security Review

A review by an interagency panel led by the US Treasury Department began after the $80 million transaction was completed in May, according to the people familiar with the matter. [...]

Shein Sets IPO Date, Targets Up to $27 Billion Valuation

Shein Sets IPO Date, Targets Up to $27 Billion Valuation

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Logging Off Is the New Luxury. How Can Brands Adapt?

As consumers — particularly Gen Z — seek out reasons to get offline, fashion and beauty labels are catering to this new demand with no-phone, sensory and analogue activations. [...]

Mall Brands Take the Stage as Abercrombie and Gap Report Earnings

Mall Brands Take the Stage as Abercrombie and Gap Report Earnings

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Neutrogena Responds to Criticism Over How Brand Deal With Hayden Panettiere Ended

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Mike Ashley’s Luxury Bet Is Getting Bigger, but Does It Add Up?

Mike Ashley’s Luxury Bet Is Getting Bigger, but Does It Add Up?

The billionaire’s Frasers Group has added Harvey Nichols and an increased stake in Hugo Boss to a growing collection of high-end brands and retailers. Can they become part of a [...]

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Nike’s Stock Dip Is a Sign of the Times for Sportswear

Nike’s Stock Dip Is a Sign of the Times for Sportswear

Nike’s share price has dipped below $40 for the first time in 12 years, a new low point for the company on its comeback trail. But this dip isn’t just [...]

Beauty Is Growing. Not Everyone’s Benefitting.

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Judging from the world’s largest beauty companies’ earnings reports, the industry’s growth is polarised, with gulfs forming between those gaining ground and those losing it. [...]

A Luxury Skincare Line, Made for Younger Faces

A Luxury Skincare Line, Made for Younger Faces

La Prairie’s new Swiss Pristine collection, aimed at entry-level shoppers, is a big bet on how aspirational products can be. [...]

China’s New Tourist Obsession Is a 24-Hour Spa

China’s New Tourist Obsession Is a 24-Hour Spa

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UK Retail Sales Drop for the First Time in Three Months

UK Retail Sales Drop for the First Time in Three Months

Scorching weather and fewer discounts discouraged shoppers and ended a recent rebound in consumer spending as retail sales fell for the first time since April. [...]

Fashion CEO Hunsicker Gets Five Years for $300 Million Fraud

Fashion CEO Hunsicker Gets Five Years for $300 Million Fraud

Christine Hunsicker, founder of the fashion-rental and technology company CaaStle Inc., was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors out of $300 million. [...]

Everyone Is Fighting for Affiliate Commissions. Who Deserves Them?

Everyone Is Fighting for Affiliate Commissions. Who Deserves Them?

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Boohoo Fined $2.7 Million by French Watchdog Over Deceptive Discounts

Boohoo Fined $2.7 Million by French Watchdog Over Deceptive Discounts

Nearly half of the examined promotions were revealed to be price increases. The Debenhams-owned fast-fashion brand also used terms like ‘leather’ to sell synthetic products. [...]

Inside Target’s Great Beauty Reset

Inside Target’s Great Beauty Reset

This week, Priya Rao looks at the relaunch of the US mass retailer’s new shop-in-shops. [...]

Report: Shein Postpones IPO to September

Report: Shein Postpones IPO to September

Shein has pushed back its market debut following a delay in taking investor orders for its Hong Kong IPO at a reduced valuation, the South China Morning Post reported. [...]

Lululemon Senior Executive Exits in Third Recent Departure

Lululemon Senior Executive Exits in Third Recent Departure

The top communications officer at the company is leaving, adding to the list of executives departing ahead of CEO Heidi O’Neill’s arrival. [...]

Trump Picks White House Ally Overton to Lead Embattled FDA

Trump Picks White House Ally Overton to Lead Embattled FDA

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JD Sports Cuts Outlook as Shoppers Curb Spending on Sneakers

JD Sports Cuts Outlook as Shoppers Curb Spending on Sneakers

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Luxury Sales Plunge in China as Tax Measures Hit Wealthy Shoppers

Luxury Sales Plunge in China as Tax Measures Hit Wealthy Shoppers

Global luxury brands face a deepening sales slump in China, as the country’s campaign to tax offshore wealth dampens spending by the country’s richest consumers. [...]

Coty Beats Quarterly Revenue, Calls Fiscal 2027 ‘Transition Year’ on Business Overhaul

Coty Beats Quarterly Revenue, Calls Fiscal 2027 ‘Transition Year’ on Business Overhaul

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Opinion: The ‘Target Run’ Is Making a Comeback

Opinion: The ‘Target Run’ Is Making a Comeback

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The Influencer Follower-Count Era Is Ending

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TJ Maxx, Marshalls Suffer Slowdowns as US Spending Tapers

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Frasers Group’s Mike Ashley Tightens Hold on Hugo Boss

Frasers Group’s Mike Ashley Tightens Hold on Hugo Boss

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Ruth Mackenzie to reportedly oversee museums, libraries and relationship with Arts Council England for UK culture ministry

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Art centre launches in Durham, UK with light-themed works by Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin

Art centre launches in Durham, UK with light-themed works by Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin

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When galleries go bust, artists and collectors can struggle to recover their works—here, legal experts offer advice

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Job opportunity: The Art Newspaper is hiring a Commercial Lead for Asia

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Job opportunity: The Art Newspaper is hiring a Commercial Lead for the UK and Europe

Job opportunity: The Art Newspaper is hiring a Commercial Lead for the UK and Europe

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Young adults with experience of having parents in prison to curate exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre

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Art and design A-levels at lowest uptake since 2010 according to UK advocacy group

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‘So much of my work is about the people helping me’: artist Jaffa Lam on her creative process

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Riyadh's JAX cultural district expands with Lift gallery arrival

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A century ago, Tate borrowed five Van Goghs to inaugurate its new ‘modern foreign’ galleries

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Comment | I'm trying my hand at writing an art historical novel—it is the best training in looking I’ve ever set myself

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New documentary focuses on traditional crafts around the world and the pressures facing artisans

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Selma’s long-abandoned Edistone Hotel, witness to 170 years of African American history, was recently saved by a non-profit devoted to protecting Black historical sites [...]

The Armory Show will launch two museum acquisition prizes at upcoming fair

The Armory Show will launch two museum acquisition prizes at upcoming fair

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Collector couple to fund art history and AI fellowship at London’s Birkbeck

Collector couple to fund art history and AI fellowship at London’s Birkbeck

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Sydney’s A$915m Powerhouse Parramatta museum announces opening date and plans for ambitious space-themed exhibition

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Newly discovered Bernini painting to be unveiled at Vienna museum

Newly discovered Bernini painting to be unveiled at Vienna museum

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Colombia earthquake damaged 40 protected sites and dozens more cultural assets, report finds

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The Colombian ministry of culture has compiled a preliminary report of damage to cultural sites in the seven departments closest to the 10 August earthquake’s epicentre, and in the Unesco-designated [...]

Comment | Kyiv must not let bureaucracy destroy the culture that Russian drones have already damaged

Comment | Kyiv must not let bureaucracy destroy the culture that Russian drones have already damaged

After multiple assaults from Moscow, now the artist community Nahirna22 faces eviction [...]

US National Gallery of Art acquires paintings, sculptures and photographs spanning five centuries

US National Gallery of Art acquires paintings, sculptures and photographs spanning five centuries

Works by Marie Bracquemond, Wifredo Lam, T.C. Cannon, Christina Quarles and many others are among the around 190 objects joining the collection [...]

Donald Judd’s retrofitted Artillery Sheds in Texas to undergo extensive restoration work

Donald Judd’s retrofitted Artillery Sheds in Texas to undergo extensive restoration work

The Chinati Foundation will carefully repair and weatherproof the Judd-modified buildings that house his 100 untitled works in mill aluminium [...]

A guide to artist agents and consultancies

A guide to artist agents and consultancies

An A-Z of organisations and individuals that offer professional services to artists beyond traditional gallery representation [...]

Artist-led space in the Democratic Republic of the Congo launches ‘urgent call’ for funding

Artist-led space in the Democratic Republic of the Congo launches ‘urgent call’ for funding

Leading artists and curators, including Elvira Dyangani Ose and Francis Alÿs, have donated to Picha Art and Research Center [...]

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Comment | A Henry Moore exhibition at Kew highlights the uneasy relationship between art and nature

The great bronze brutalist forms seem more to suggest the impossibility of returning to natural innocence [...]

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A brush with… Dawoud Bey

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Online art competition raises millions for charity—and many questions

Online art competition raises millions for charity—and many questions

“The People’s Artist”, an online competition with Johnny Depp as its spokesperson, pulled in thousands of entrants with promises of an exhibition and magazine coverage [...]

Competition invites children across the UK to reimagine Bayeux Tapestry's lost panel

Competition invites children across the UK to reimagine Bayeux Tapestry's lost panel

Winning primary school classes will receive a free trip to the British Museum in London to see the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as a funded visit to the Battle of [...]

Sun, sea, sand—and art: luxury hotel in Crete commissions works in response to the island

Sun, sea, sand—and art: luxury hotel in Crete commissions works in response to the island

The G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation has taken on the challenge of putting outdoor art in scorching Mediterranean conditions at the Minos Palace Resort [...]

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The new executive director says Hong Kong’s longest-running independent art space must widen access while rethinking what an independent institution can do in a transformed cultural landscape [...]

The wild world of Cathy de Monchaux revealed in exhibition at Paris's Palais de Tokyo

The wild world of Cathy de Monchaux revealed in exhibition at Paris's Palais de Tokyo

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How has a famous group of 2,000 year-old Chinese rock paintings remained so vibrant? Because it was made with blood, new research says

How has a famous group of 2,000 year-old Chinese rock paintings remained so vibrant? Because it was made with blood, new research says

Murals at Unesco World Heritage Site Zuojiang Huashan in southern China were made using animal blood and blood from childbirth, according to researchers [...]

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Comment | Archaeology can offer lessons for future space colonies—but we must protect existing lunar heritage first

A new study reveals how island archaeology could guide future colonists to Mars, Jupiter and beyond, however the traces of past endeavours are at risk [...]

Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist

Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist

Five pieces by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari, taken in the same heist last December, remain missing [...]

Frieze Seoul to move to new venue from 2027

Frieze Seoul to move to new venue from 2027

The fair will move to Dongdaemun Design Plaza for its 2027 edition as its current home is redeveloped [...]

Four works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicily museum

Four works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicily museum

The heist, which included several San Gregorio altarpiece panels, occurred on Saturday while the town was celebrating Assumption Day [...]

Mary Heilmann, fearless colourist and singular abstract painter, has died, aged 86

Mary Heilmann, fearless colourist and singular abstract painter, has died, aged 86

A Californian through and through, but based in New York for most of her life, she took lessons from ceramics, design, Post-Minimalism, hard-edged abstraction and more, synthesising them into something [...]

Human skull featuring elaborate mosaic ornamentation repatriated to Mexico

Human skull featuring elaborate mosaic ornamentation repatriated to Mexico

Likely reassembled in modern times, the skull was returned by the Netherlands following a grassroots campaign; it will go on display at a community museum in Oaxaca [...]

Buyers sue London's Alison Jacques gallery over cancelled sale of Monica Sjöö paintings

Buyers sue London's Alison Jacques gallery over cancelled sale of Monica Sjöö paintings

Yoed and Natasha Anise’s first-ever art purchase unravelled after the artist’s estate allegedly decided they are not sufficiently serious collectors [...]

Chinese museums ordered to strengthen emergency protocols following blackouts and incidents of overcrowding

Chinese museums ordered to strengthen emergency protocols following blackouts and incidents of overcrowding

Issues at the Terracotta Warriors Museum in Xi'an and the Zhejiang Museum have prompted the National Cultural Heritage Administration to put out a notice [...]

Stolen Cezanne, Matisse and Renoir paintings recovered in Italy

Stolen Cezanne, Matisse and Renoir paintings recovered in Italy

The works had been taken from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near the city of Parma in March [...]

Why did Van Gogh sign his paintings simply as ‘Vincent’?

Why did Van Gogh sign his paintings simply as ‘Vincent’?

And why did he sign so few? The intriguing story behind his signatures [...]

Camden Art Centre director Martin Clark to step down and lead Towner Eastbourne

Camden Art Centre director Martin Clark to step down and lead Towner Eastbourne

The museum director will move from London to the East Sussex institution ahead of the development of its new outpost in the South Downs National Park [...]

Artist Trevor Paglen’s new book offers timely take on technology’s hijacking of visual culture

Artist Trevor Paglen’s new book offers timely take on technology’s hijacking of visual culture

The publication features a collection of essays about how two technological revolutions have transformed our relationship to images [...]

Icom defends the Smithsonian amid Trump's attacks

Icom defends the Smithsonian amid Trump's attacks

The public statement of support follows the international museum body’s recent update of its code of ethics, as well as a similar statement issued by the American Alliance of Museums [...]

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