Luca de Meo Says Italy Remains Key, Rules Out Production Shift
The Kering CEO also denied any interest in buying a minority stake in Armani, adding that the group was focusing on other challenges.
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In Paris, a Global Platform for a Fashion Industry in Extreme Flux
Buoyed by inbound talent and newfound economic confidence, Paris is emerging as the centre stage of an increasingly fragmented industry.
Fashion Week
Infinite Inspirations at Jean Paul Gaultier
From Paris in the 1940s to snow queens, cartoon warriors, draped divas and India, the collection spared no inspiration but was too much and too long to digest.
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Margiela's New Glamour
Galliano has osmosed Margiela’s essence to produce a unique fashion hybrid that is defiant and eerily beautiful.
News & Analysis
Here's a CEO Who Was Happy to Lose His Job
" Christopher Bailey is out as Burberry 's boss, but he's still the label's top designer—and he couldn't be happier."
Fashion Week
Alien Queens at Versace
The sense of occasion that permeated Donatella Versace’s new couture collection transcended the banalities of red carpet cliché.
News & Analysis
News Bites | Buro 24/7 Partners with System, ES Magazine's Tribute to London
In today's News Bites, Buro 24/7 has acquired a majority stake in fashion magazine System, while ES magazine has commissioned artists including Wolfgang Tillmans and Ai Weiwei to create covers for its new issue.
Fashion Week
A Conceptual Haunting at Armani Privé
Giorgio Armani's nod to the late Franca Sozzani was largely conceptual, present more in the restraint that permeated than in the collection itself.
Fashion Week
Karl's Homage to Paris
Paris is on a post-Macron high, but the chord Lagerfeld struck at Chanel was all things must pass.
Technology
Bits & Bytes | Fashion Brands Abandon Snapchat, Factories of the Future
This week, Snapchat loses out as fashion turns to Instagram Stories, and how 3D printing will power the factories of the future.
Fashion Week
Feel-Good Loewe
A very particular sexuality was presented, more shy ingénue than testeronic stud muffin, which in its simplest, rawest form transcended fashion.
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Fragile, Ethereal Beauty at Iris van Herpen
Only colour seems to remain an unconquered territory here. As one of few designers genuinely looking to the future to be inspired, let’s hope Van Herpen will programme the full spectrum into haute couture’s uncertain tomorrow.
Workplace & Talent
How I Broke Into Fashion | PR Consulting’s Pierre Rougier
Pierre Rougier went from studying political science to working in PR for Hermès, Yohji Yamamoto and Margiela before launching his own agency. How did he do it?
The News in Brief
H&M, Adidas and Inditex Back New Effort to Address ‘Waste Colonialism’
The new initiative will explore how the industry can take responsibility for the millions of used and unsold garments exported to secondhand markets around the world.
Dyson’s $499 AI Toothbrush Sees Rocky Debut
The UK firm blamed a production error resulting in ‘water seepage’ for the disappearance of its newly launched camera-equipped toothbrush from stores.
Sephora to Launch at Marks & Spencer
‘Sephora at M&S’ will roll out in M&S stores and online starting next spring, with plans to expand to 100 locations by the end of 2028.
Novo Buys Rights to Early Obesity Pill For $2.6 Billion
The Wegovy maker has signed a deal to license an experimental obesity pill from China’s Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals as it seeks to regain share of the global GLP-1 market.
Oura Delays US IPO
The smart ring maker said on Tuesday it has delayed its US initial public offering, citing market uncertainty.
Maxhosa Africa Brings Pan-Africanism to Paris Fashion Week
Creative director Laduma Ngxokolo’s label is the first South African brand to stage a full runway show on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar.
Shein Shares Sink to Record Low After Profit Plunge
The ultra-fast-fashion giant’s share price fell 12 percent after it reported a steep drop in first-half operating income in its inaugural earnings as a public company.