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Has Fashion Fixed Its Italian Supply Chain Problems?
Luxury’s biggest brands have tightened supplier oversight since a sweatshops scandal threatened to taint their reputations, but critics say compliance efforts have stalled and little has been done to tackle the systemic issues that enable labour exploitation.
LVMH Fashion Sales Rise 1% as Dior Turns Corner
Sales at the group’s fashion and leather goods unit returned to organic growth after a two-year slump, with Dior back in positive territory a year into a creative reset piloted by Jonathan Anderson. Group sales rose 3 percent.
The Acts of Love Behind Milan Design Week
From a six-person ceramics studio to the chief design officer of one of the world’s biggest technology companies, Salone del Mobile remains the place where you feel the full spectrum of what design means today, writes Imran Amed.
What Stood Out at Salone
Martina Mondadori separates the signal from the noise at Milan Design Week: Dimorestudio’s retail space, Osanna Visconti’s bronzes, Laila Gohar’s merry-go-round for Arket and more.
Luxury Brands Accelerate ‘Made in Italy’ Fixes
A widening Milan probe has exposed structural weaknesses in luxury’s Italian supply chain, pushing some of fashion’s biggest groups to overhaul oversight, adopt new technologies and vertically integrate key suppliers.
Opinion: There’s No Secret to Freeing Luxury’s Supply Chains From Scandal
Effective strategies for responsible business already exist. The real opportunity for big brands now is to lead by putting them into practice, writes Caterina Occhio.
The Great Fashion Reset | How to Fix Luxury’s Trust Issues
A series of scandals linking brands including Dior, Armani, Valentino and Loro Piana to sweatshops in Italy have helped fuel doubts about what customers are paying for and whether they can trust luxury brands anymore.
The Debrief | High Luxury, Cheap Labour: Inside Loro Piana’s Sweatshop Links
The LVMH-owned cashmere brand is the fifth luxury label to be caught in an Italian scandal that has raised questions about the integrity of the sector’s vaunted supply chains. Sarah Kent joins The Debrief to unpack.
If You Can’t Trust Loro Piana, Who Can You Trust?
This week, court documents linking the top-end brand to Chinese sweatshops outside Milan called the entire luxury sector’s credibility into question.
Opinion: The Big Luxury Simulation Is Over
Consumers appear to be calling time on an industry that long ago stopped selling real luxury goods, writes Eugene Rabkin.