Fayed Abuse Victims Seek Up to £150 Million From Harrods
The retailer currently has a £62 million provision set aside for redress payments, but victims’ lawyers say more is likely needed.
diversity
Luxury
Op-Ed | The Revolution Will Not Be Serifised: Why Every Luxury Brand’s Logo Looks the Same
Fashion’s branding clean slate is as much about erasing the past as it is about securing the future, argues John Whelan.
Op-Ed | The Revolution Will Not Be Serifised: Why Every Luxury Brand’s Logo Looks the Same
Fashion’s branding clean slate is as much about erasing the past as it is about securing the future, argues John Whelan.
News & Analysis
The Fenty Effect Comes to Skincare
Skincare brands are introducing new products to protect and heal skin regardless of tone, chasing the same underserved group of racially diverse consumers that turned Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty into an overnight sensation.
The Fenty Effect Comes to Skincare
Skincare brands are introducing new products to protect and heal skin regardless of tone, chasing the same underserved group of racially diverse consumers that turned Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty into an overnight sensation.
News & Analysis
CFDA Releases Diversity Report
The organisation is planning a year of programming that tackles inclusion and diversity in the industry and has hired advocate Bethann Hardison to help.
CFDA Releases Diversity Report
The organisation is planning a year of programming that tackles inclusion and diversity in the industry and has hired advocate Bethann Hardison to help.
News & Analysis
What Can the Fashion Industry Do To Be More Inclusive?
Diversity is not a trend, and there is more work to be done to acknowledge and address the barriers facing non-white designers, models and creatives. The first step? Don’t lump everyone’s challenges together.
What Can the Fashion Industry Do To Be More Inclusive?
Diversity is not a trend, and there is more work to be done to acknowledge and address the barriers facing non-white designers, models and creatives. The first step? Don’t lump everyone’s challenges together.
News & Analysis
Prada Will Stop Selling $550 Monkey Figure Decried as Racist
This marks the latest instance of a fashion house using imagery that’s at best tone-deaf, at worst, racist and exploitative.
Prada Will Stop Selling $550 Monkey Figure Decried as Racist
This marks the latest instance of a fashion house using imagery that’s at best tone-deaf, at worst, racist and exploitative.
News & Analysis
American Fashion on the Cusp of Change: Bethann Hardison, Kerby Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and Patrick Robinson
At BoF’s VOICES, the creatives spoke about the barriers that black designers face and how a new generation is finding success outside the fashion system.
American Fashion on the Cusp of Change: Bethann Hardison, Kerby Jean-Raymond, LaQuan Smith and Patrick Robinson
At BoF’s VOICES, the creatives spoke about the barriers that black designers face and how a new generation is finding success outside the fashion system.
News & Analysis
Optimising for a More Inclusive Culture at H&M
The Swedish company aims to create a more inclusive and representative global organisation that will address past errors and, in the future, utilise its diversity to drive the business forward.
Optimising for a More Inclusive Culture at H&M
The Swedish company aims to create a more inclusive and representative global organisation that will address past errors and, in the future, utilise its diversity to drive the business forward.
News & Analysis
The Case for Seeking Out More Diverse Influencers
On the heels of the #RevolveSoWhite controversy, influencers and agencies are pushing brands to feature a broader range of ethnicities, sizes and ages in their campaigns.
The Case for Seeking Out More Diverse Influencers
On the heels of the #RevolveSoWhite controversy, influencers and agencies are pushing brands to feature a broader range of ethnicities, sizes and ages in their campaigns.
News & Analysis
ASOS Focuses on Growing Its Genderless Offering
The online-only fashion retailer plans to capture sales from a new generation that doesn’t want to be categorised as male or female.
ASOS Focuses on Growing Its Genderless Offering
The online-only fashion retailer plans to capture sales from a new generation that doesn’t want to be categorised as male or female.
News & Analysis
Fashion’s Year of Reckoning: Have We Learned Anything?
Nine months after the rise of fashion’s own #MeToo movement casting director James Scully, Model Alliance founder Sara Ziff and supermodel-turned-activist Karen Elson take stock.
Fashion’s Year of Reckoning: Have We Learned Anything?
Nine months after the rise of fashion’s own #MeToo movement casting director James Scully, Model Alliance founder Sara Ziff and supermodel-turned-activist Karen Elson take stock.
Sustainability
Social Goods | The Rise of Natural Beauty, Revolve's 'Fatphobia' Top
This week, the popularity of natural beauty is attributed to the rising fear of chemicals, while Revolve sold a sweatshirt with a controversial quote.
Social Goods | The Rise of Natural Beauty, Revolve's 'Fatphobia' Top
This week, the popularity of natural beauty is attributed to the rising fear of chemicals, while Revolve sold a sweatshirt with a controversial quote.
News & Analysis
A Royal Photographer’s Modern Gaze
In a world that’s tiring of fashion photography that prizes artifice, shuns diversity and exploits sexuality, Alexi Lubomirski, who famously shot Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding pictures, is after something more authentic, ethical, thoughtful.
A Royal Photographer’s Modern Gaze
In a world that’s tiring of fashion photography that prizes artifice, shuns diversity and exploits sexuality, Alexi Lubomirski, who famously shot Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding pictures, is after something more authentic, ethical, thoughtful.
The News in Brief
Puig Acquires Sun Care Brand Isdin
The conglomerate bought its former partner’s 50 percent share to take full ownership of the Spanish skincare label.
Hugo Boss Chairman to Step Down Amid Frasers Group Pressure
Stephan Sturm is stepping down, as the German fashion house's largest shareholder seeks to beef up its board representation alongside its takeover bid for the brand.
CFDA’s Steven Kolb Involved in Altercation with PETA Protestors
The trade body’s president physically restrained animal rights activists after they stormed a Cos runway show at New York Fashion Week.
GQ Philippines Names Danyl Geneciran Editor in Chief
The former Vogue Man Philippines editor will helm GQ’s 23rd international title, whose debut issue features covers starring Darren Criss, Jordan Clarkson and Erwan Heussaff.
Human Made Discloses $3.6 Million Undercover Purchase Price and Long-Term Financial Targets
The Tokyo-listed company will pay $3.6 million in cash for 100 percent of Undercover, with founder Jun Takahashi relinquishing corporate duties to focus solely on design.
Arizona Accuses L’Oréal of Concealing Cancer Risks Linked to Hair Relaxers
The beauty conglomerate faces over 12,000 similar lawsuits filed by individuals that have been consolidated in a Chicago federal court.
Space NK Names New CEO, Andy Lightfoot Steps Down
Chief marketing officer Emma Simpson-Scott will succeed Lightfoot, who is leaving the UK retailer after seven years at the helm.