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This Week: What’s LVMH’s Take on Tariffs?
The luxury conglomerate’s earnings will provide a window into how the sector’s biggest brands are expecting the rest of 2025 to go.
BoF CROSSROADS 2025: How to Tap into Fashion’s Future Growth Markets
Designers Tory Burch, Rabia Zargarpur and more discussed how to balance global ambitions while catering to local markets.
Will Prada’s Versace Bet Pay Off?
Prada is adding one of Italy’s most famous brands to its stable at an attractive price. But the group is also piling on complexity in a difficult luxury market.
Capri’s Versace Blunders Opened Door to Prada Takeover
The US group sold Versace at a roughly $700 million loss after a strategy rooted in more muted designs and higher prices sent sales growth significantly off course.
The New Holy Trinity: Hailey, Selena and (Surprise!) Ariana
How cynics and shoppers came around to a glitter-infused makeup line, and why it’s now beating everyone — including Rare Beauty — at the Instagram metric game.
At Salone, Design Spectacle Takes Centre Stage
The power of brand theatre was on display at Milan Design Week, reports Dan Thawley.
Trump Sees ‘Transition Problems’ With China Tariffs at 145%
‘There’ll be a transition cost, and transition problems, but in the end it’s going to be a beautiful thing,’ Trump said Thursday during a Cabinet meeting. ‘We’re in very good shape.’
BoF CROSSROADS 2025: Unpacking Fashion’s Future Markets
Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, entrepreneur and podcast host Anas Bukhash and Saudi Arabia’s Princess Noura Bint Faisal Al Saud and more discuss the opportunities in the industry’s most exciting emerging markets.
EU Suspends Retaliatory 25% Tariffs on US Goods After Trump U-Turn
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said, “If negotiations are not satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in,” underscoring that the retaliatory tariffs are on hold for 90 days.
Lacoste Ups Its US Ambitions With New York Flagship
The new store is part of a plan to fuel sales growth in the US, a key market for its tennis-centric sportswear. But Lacoste faces new headwinds, including Trump’s tariffs, new levels of US uncertainty and increased competition for prime tennis positioning.
Prada Group to Buy Versace for €1.25 Billion
Prada plans to invest an additional €250 million in relaunching Versace, which has struggled to keep up with bigger heritage brands since selling to Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings in 2018.
The Problem with Louis Vuitton’s Texas Factory
Six years after Bernard Arnault and Donald Trump cut the ribbon on a Vuitton plant in rural Texas, a Reuters investigation has uncovered significant underperformance at the handbag plant, underscoring the hurdles LVMH faces as it attempts to build its production footprint in the US.