This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Dubai malls, Mexican designers and China’s social commerce giant.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Dubai malls, Mexican designers and China’s social commerce giant.
Mid-market global brands like Gap, Zara, and Uniqlo are successfully winning back Chinese consumers who previously favoured domestic labels.
Mid-market global brands like Gap, Zara, and Uniqlo are successfully winning back Chinese consumers who previously favoured domestic labels.
Prompted by the overwhelming response to a recent briefing about the ‘industry that eats its young,’ we’ve gathered the most vital strategies from the BoF archive to help independent designers navigate today’s fraught retail landscape.
Prompted by the overwhelming response to a recent briefing about the ‘industry that eats its young,’ we’ve gathered the most vital strategies from the BoF archive to help independent designers navigate today’s fraught retail landscape.
Gap’s brand strategy is leading on culture but trailing on the fundamentals that endure beyond marketing moments, according to the latest analysis by BoF Insights.
Gap’s brand strategy is leading on culture but trailing on the fundamentals that endure beyond marketing moments, according to the latest analysis by BoF Insights.
Gen Z is turning beauty into a social sport, blending AI, ingredient obsession and a preference for in-store shopping. But only brands with real credibility and community cachet will convert curiosity into lasting loyalty.
Gen Z is turning beauty into a social sport, blending AI, ingredient obsession and a preference for in-store shopping. But only brands with real credibility and community cachet will convert curiosity into lasting loyalty.
The conflict in the Middle East is hurting duty-free and travel-retail sales for luxury and beauty groups like LVMH, Kering, Estée Lauder, and L’Oréal.
The conflict in the Middle East is hurting duty-free and travel-retail sales for luxury and beauty groups like LVMH, Kering, Estée Lauder, and L’Oréal.
The conflict is already disrupting retail, driving up material costs and squeezing global supply chains, with price hikes likely next.
The conflict is already disrupting retail, driving up material costs and squeezing global supply chains, with price hikes likely next.
Prices experienced their largest increase in years as the war with Iran boosted oil prices and the pass-through from tariffs persisted.
Prices experienced their largest increase in years as the war with Iran boosted oil prices and the pass-through from tariffs persisted.
As fashion brands race to ink hotel tie-ups, MML Hospitality is reversing the formula, expanding luxury boutique ByGeorge into new markets through placement in its properties and operating the retail floor with a true concierge mindset.
As fashion brands race to ink hotel tie-ups, MML Hospitality is reversing the formula, expanding luxury boutique ByGeorge into new markets through placement in its properties and operating the retail floor with a true concierge mindset.
As the global beauty industry convened in Bologna for the world’s largest beauty trade fair, panellists from NellyRodi, Florasis, and Cénée joined BoF’s Shenel Wickramaratne to explore how colour cosmetics are balancing creative expression, consumer value and brand identity in a changing market.
As the global beauty industry convened in Bologna for the world’s largest beauty trade fair, panellists from NellyRodi, Florasis, and Cénée joined BoF’s Shenel Wickramaratne to explore how colour cosmetics are balancing creative expression, consumer value and brand identity in a changing market.
From H&M’s bid to draw shoppers in with its sustainable positioning, Shein’s new circularity study and a campaign showing athleisure can be made using clean energy, fashion is trying to figure out sustainability’s saleability.
From H&M’s bid to draw shoppers in with its sustainable positioning, Shein’s new circularity study and a campaign showing athleisure can be made using clean energy, fashion is trying to figure out sustainability’s saleability.
The L’Oréal-licensed fashion line is launching a new 'haute perfumery' collection, in addition to its more masstige Replica line, to capture an emerging class of scent ‘connoisseurs.'
The L’Oréal-licensed fashion line is launching a new 'haute perfumery' collection, in addition to its more masstige Replica line, to capture an emerging class of scent ‘connoisseurs.'
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 upgraded its annual forecast on Tuesday, as consumers reached for brands like Vaseline and Dove despite household budget concerns stemming from the Iran war.
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.
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.
French newspaper Le Monde published a six-part series last week on the tycoon, including alleged tensions among his family members driven by succession.
CVC Capital Partners is considering buying a stake in the fashion jeweller from private-equity firm TPG Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
The department store has more than doubled the size of its fabrics department and will host crafting classes this autumn as social media drives a surge in activities like sewing.
Two small businesses, backed by the group that successfully sued over previous tariffs, say the new policy similarly exceeds the president’s authority to tax imports.