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Why Beauty Companies Keep Cutting Their Portfolios
As shoppers and investors alike tighten their purse strings, a renewed focus on proven, lasting brands and categories is thinning the herd.
Gucci’s Demna Debut Boosting Store Traffic
The brand has successfully harnessed the designer’s buzzy Milan fashion week presentation to draw shoppers back to its stores in the key US market, after years of lackluster sales, data shows.
The Winners of the Phoebe Philo Bag Revival
Handbags Philo designed during her tenures at Chloé and Celine have recently been revived at both luxury houses, to the benefit of the brands and resellers, but not necessarily Philo herself.
Yohji Yamamoto: ‘The Fashion Business Is Disappearing’
The 82-year-old punk poet anti-hero of fashion has grown a brand that now generates more than $200 million a year, but there is plenty he is angry about as he prepares his label for the future.
‘Gilmore Girls’ and the Art of Nostalgia Marketing
With a 'Gilmore Girls' collaboration, Bliss continues its strategy to court Millennial and Gen-X shoppers; in a marketplace increasingly saturated by Y2K references, it may take more than a beloved name to win them over.
‘A New Heartbeat’: Decoding Duran Lantink’s Gaultier Debut
To keep his Jean Paul Gaultier as new as possible, Lantink decided he would stay away from the archive, the designer told Tim Blanks in an in-depth interview.
This Week: Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel Caps Fashion’s Month of Debuts
The designer’s first collection for the label is perhaps the most anticipated, but pivoting a brand this big and with this much heritage is a slow process.
Inside Loewe’s Reset: Fresh ‘Ferocity’ and a New Lens on Craft
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez’s debut show in Paris saw the designer duo dive head-first into the brand’s links to Spanishness and high craft with a more spontaneous, sportswear-inflected sensibility than their predecessor.
Paris Day Five: Givenchy and Loewe
Intimacy and illusion add different levels of tantalisation as fashion tries its best to engage the senses.
Nike’s Comeback Finally Takes Shape
The sportswear giant’s latest earnings results showed clear signs of progress for a long-awaited comeback, but there’s still plenty of work left to be done.
Is Fashion Quiet Quitting on Climate?
This week, Ralph Lauren dropped its net-zero emissions target, while pledging to stay the course on more concrete, near-term goals. Meanwhile, Brunello Cucinelli clapped back at short sellers and Vestiaire Collective is looking to play the carbon market.
What the Cowboy Boot Boom Says About America
The style statement is also a story about nostalgia, nationalism and America’s search for identity in times of uncertainty.