Indian Jeweller Giva Raises $100 Million to Fuel Retail Expansion
The Bengaluru-based company plans to use the mammoth funding round to boost manufacturing and more than double its store count to over 1,000 locations.
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Fashion Week
New Calvin meets Old Hollywood
Francisco Costa's distressed glamour was a wonderful blur of sensuous sequinned slips, silken floor-length florals and sensational silk trousers.
Fashion Week
Marc Jacobs: That's Entertainment!
Marc Jacobs' witty, provocative, extravagant, mind-blowing fashion spectacular was a fascinating conversation between high and low, glamour and grunge.
Workplace & Talent
Power Moves | Condé Nast Names CEO, Asics and Jaeger CEOs Exit
BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
News & Analysis
The Women in Christopher Kane’s Inner Circle
Colin McDowell talks to Christopher Kane about going global and the women who helped him get there.
News & Analysis
What Tory Burch Did Next
The designer serves up her strategy behind the much anticipated activewear label, Tory Sport.
Luxury
Shop Tactics: Why a First Flagship Matters
A flurry of high fashion labels have opened their first flagships in elite London real estate. With sky-high retail rents and customers accustomed to shopping online, is a physical store worth the investment?
Fashion Week
A Laidback Vibe at Michael Kors
The intention of Michael Kors' Spring collection, inspired by Elsa Peretti and Georgia O'Keefe, felt more respite than knockout.
Fashion Week
The Sexes Battle on Wall Street for DKNY
The energy of New York was hot-wired into Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne's DKNY debut, but what they offered up was juicier in theory than in practice.
Fashion Week
Proenza Schouler Steals the Heat from Cuba
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez are masters of ambiguity, but here it was directness — exposure, in fact — on which their Spring collection was based.
Fashion Week
Precision in Soft Focus at Boss
Jason Wu approached the precise, minimalist ethos of the German brand with a newfound sense of softness.
News & Analysis
The Business of Fashion and the CFDA Celebrate the Forthcoming #BoF500
Fashion's top players celebrated BoF and the American members of the #BoF500.
Fashion Week
Romantic Poetry Possesses Rodarte
The Mulleavy sisters cited romantic poetry as their inspiration, but it wasn’t immediately clear how this was translated into clothes that had all the glitter and glam of the honky tonk.
The News in Brief
Bangladesh Garment Workers Stage Fourth Day of Wage Protests
The unrest has intensified despite the government forming a wage board to review pay levels, with violent clashes shuttering factories and injuring dozens of people.
Retail Still a Weak Spot as Reliance Profits Beat Expectations
The Indian oil-to-telecom giant saw its market value jump by a record $19 billion as earnings surged, but its retail division continues to lag.
Hugo Boss Cuts Outlook Citing Weak Demand, Higher Costs
The German fashion house, recently taken over by Britain’s Frasers Group, is in the midst of a second turnaround effort under CEO Daniel Grieder.
Diotima’s Rachel Scott, Ralph Lauren Take Home Top Prizes at CFDA Awards
Colleen Allen won the emerging designer of the year award; Tory Burch, Linda Fargo and more take home honours.
Ye Announces ‘Yeezy Season 01’ Runway Show in Los Angeles
The show will unveil the brand’s first-ever flagship store and mark Ye’s first full-scale runway presentation in four years.
Style Capital Acquires Alessandro Dell’Acqua’s N21
Financial details of the deal for the Milan-based brand weren’t disclosed.
Lagos Fashion Week Continues to Flex its Pan-African Muscle
The buzzy Nigerian fashion event has attracted a cohort from across the continent, with designers from South Africa, Uganda and Morocco presenting their collections in the Nigerian city.