Shein Discloses FTC Probe in US, Warns of Significant Payments
According to documents the ultra-fast-fashion company filed in connection with its planned Hong Kong IPO, Shein is cooperating with the investigation and could face significant fines.
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Fashion Week
Comme des Garçons' Celebration of Artificiality
Rei Kawakubo sticks her finger in the wind and nails the moment, demonstrating the enduring outsider status of camp.
Comme des Garçons' Celebration of Artificiality
Rei Kawakubo sticks her finger in the wind and nails the moment, demonstrating the enduring outsider status of camp.
Workplace & Talent
Announcing Comme des Garçons, Bella Freud, Monreal London and Olivia Burton
Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion talent.
Announcing Comme des Garçons, Bella Freud, Monreal London and Olivia Burton
Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion talent.
Fashion Week
Comme des Garçons' Monument to Irrevocable Loss
Just as girlhood is an inevitable prelude to lost innocence, Rei Kawakubo’s collection seemed to recognise another human inevitability, the most inescapable of all.
Comme des Garçons' Monument to Irrevocable Loss
Just as girlhood is an inevitable prelude to lost innocence, Rei Kawakubo’s collection seemed to recognise another human inevitability, the most inescapable of all.
News & Analysis
Rei Kawakubo's Hair Magician
Best known for his dramatic hair sculptures for Comme des Garçons, Julien d'Ys was the first to purposefully make hair look dirty, using potions of grease, vodka, clay or powder.
Rei Kawakubo's Hair Magician
Best known for his dramatic hair sculptures for Comme des Garçons, Julien d'Ys was the first to purposefully make hair look dirty, using potions of grease, vodka, clay or powder.
Fashion Week
Essential Evolution at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo’s designs exploded the female form into primal shapes that looked as much Stone Age as they did Space Age.
Essential Evolution at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo’s designs exploded the female form into primal shapes that looked as much Stone Age as they did Space Age.
News & Analysis
What the Comme des Garçons Show Means for the Met — and Fashion
" Rei Kawakubo, the founder and designer of Comme des Garçons, will become only the second living designer after Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 to have a
What the Comme des Garçons Show Means for the Met — and Fashion
" Rei Kawakubo, the founder and designer of Comme des Garçons, will become only the second living designer after Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 to have a
Fashion Week
Invisible Clothes at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo’s latest presentation was majestic and mournful, a paean to hopes unmet, dreams unrealised. The collection had a medieval, ritualistic, emotional power that overwhelmed reason.
Invisible Clothes at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo’s latest presentation was majestic and mournful, a paean to hopes unmet, dreams unrealised. The collection had a medieval, ritualistic, emotional power that overwhelmed reason.
Beauty
The Scent of Streetwear
Finding white space in the youth market, Comme des Garçons-operated label Gosha Rubchinskiy is the latest to tap the intersection of streetwear and fragrance.
The Scent of Streetwear
Finding white space in the youth market, Comme des Garçons-operated label Gosha Rubchinskiy is the latest to tap the intersection of streetwear and fragrance.
News & Analysis
The Vetements Effect
How did the 17 brands that worked with Vetements for its Spring/Summer 2017 runway show benefit from the collaboration?
The Vetements Effect
How did the 17 brands that worked with Vetements for its Spring/Summer 2017 runway show benefit from the collaboration?
Fashion Week
Comme des Garçons’ Naked Kings
There was a definite revelatory subtext in Kawakubo’s procession of see-through clothes. Nowhere to hide in her plastic parade.
Comme des Garçons’ Naked Kings
There was a definite revelatory subtext in Kawakubo’s procession of see-through clothes. Nowhere to hide in her plastic parade.
Luxury
How Comme des Garçons Grew Gosha Rubchinskiy
BoF spoke exclusively with Gosha Rubchinskiy and Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons, to learn how the company catalysed the rapid growth of the skater-inflected fashion label.
How Comme des Garçons Grew Gosha Rubchinskiy
BoF spoke exclusively with Gosha Rubchinskiy and Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons, to learn how the company catalysed the rapid growth of the skater-inflected fashion label.
Fashion Week
An Empathy With Radicalism at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo’s relationship with the punk spirit communicated by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood has helped define Comme des Garçons as the foremost challenge to fashion orthodoxy.
An Empathy With Radicalism at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo’s relationship with the punk spirit communicated by Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood has helped define Comme des Garçons as the foremost challenge to fashion orthodoxy.
The News in Brief
Frasers Group Takes a Position in Burberry
The billionaire Mike Ashley’s investment arm disclosed Tuesday it holds an interest worth a potential 4.2 percent of the voting rights in Burberry.
EssilorLuxottica Beats Forecasts, AI Glasses and Myopia Products Drive Growth
The Franco-Italian eyewear maker reported a 15 percent rise in first-half profit, beating expectations, while revenue growth was driven by strong demand for AI-enabled glasses myopia products.
Whoop Names Kyle Leahy Chief Commercial Officer
Leahy joins the wearables brand from Glossier, where she was chief executive for three years.
Chinese Jeweller Laopu Gold’s Shares Drop on Growth Outlook
The jeweller lost $2.1 billion in market value after forecasting first-half 2026 revenue growth of up to 66 percent, a sharp slowdown from last year that unsettled investors in one of China’s most viral consumer brands.
Unilever Lifts Outlook on Strongest Volume Growth in Over A Decade
Unilever upgraded its annual forecast on Tuesday, as consumers reached for brands like Vaseline and Dove despite household budget concerns stemming from the Iran war.
J&J to Pay $5.5 Billion to Settle Talc-Related Cancer Claims
Johnson & Johnson on Monday said it agreed to a $5.5 billion commitment to resolve years of litigation related to claims that its talc products caused ovarian cancer.
Lenzing Closes UK, Austria Sites in Turnaround Bid
The closures are the latest in a series of cost-cutting and refinancing measures at the textile maker, which has faced headwinds from competition in China and India.