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Can Fashion Still Meet Its Climate Promises?
As the UN’s annual COP climate summit gets underway against a challenging backdrop, the industry’s near-term pledges to help cap planet-warming emissions are slipping out of reach.
Luxury’s High-Stakes Gamble on China’s Mini-Dramas
Brands like Loewe are betting on the craze for bite-sized soap operas, testing how far they can stretch mass-market entertainment without undermining their prestige positioning.
This Week: Luxury’s Moment of Truth Arrives
LVMH opened the earnings season with some positive signs; now the rest of the industry prepares to pile in.
Luxury Crosses Fingers for a Rebound
LVMH’s results and the subsequent share price rally seem to be more a reflection of hope than concrete evidence of a luxury rebound, writes Imran Amed.
This Week: LVMH Results and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
The luxury giant’s earnings won’t reflect Dior’s new direction, but can speak to the environment in which those clothes will be sold.
Opinion: This Economy Is Ripe for Fake and Copycat Luxury Goods
Rising prices, shifting consumer tastes and manufacturing scandals are eroding trust in luxury, giving counterfeiters and dupe-makers new opportunities to win over shoppers seeking style at a more accessible cost, writes Andrea Felsted.
US Tariffs Will Test Luxury’s Pricing Power
European luxury brands have relied on dramatic price increases to fuel profit growth in recent years and may have limited manoeuvring room to raise prices further.
LVMH Slide Signals No Quick End to Big Luxury’s Malaise
A steep sales decline at the sector bellwether’s core fashion and leather goods division, which houses Louis Vuitton and Dior, point to a long road ahead.
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.
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.