Aritzia Seeks to More Than Double Sales by 2032
New categories and brick-and-mortar expansion beyond North America are set to drive Aritzia’s quest to hit $10.5 billion CAD ($7.5 billion).
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Vintage Yohji Yamamoto
The designer's collection brought back memories of his early forays into the western scene — it felt punchy just as much as it was melancholic.
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Maria Grazia Chiuri, A Lightning Rod at Dior
An erratic nature established the rhythm of the show and may have stood in the way of a full appreciation of the collection.
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Intangible Oddness at Loewe
There was an acutely cut precision, but Jonathan Anderson's collection missed the antic charm of the men’s presentation in January.
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Off-White's Continuing Quest for Elevation
Abloh’s flighty experiments with nude mesh, sequinned swallows and cloudy blue checked tailoring clicked in a way that recent outings haven’t.
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A Primeval Paco Rabanne
With the template of the new Paco Rabanne firmly set, Julien Dossena threw caution to the wind, juxtaposing the organic and the inorganic to powerful effect.
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A Voyage into Animalia at Balmain
Olivier Rousteing ran amok with exotic and garden-variety skins — chopped and sheared into many, many brown and gold armour-like minidresses.
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Community and Ceremony at Rick Owens
The designer often skates around a kind of nu-medievalism, but the collection was longer, leaner and more youthful than anything else he’s shown.
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Morphing Worlds at Chloé
Clare Waight Keller’s final collection represented a new direction for both the designer — and the house.
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Radical Classicism at Rochas
In a season of aesthetic chaos, classicism and elegance came across as a radical stance, and all the better for it.
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Urban Frothiness at Lanvin
Bouchra Jarrar repaired some of last season’s issues with overt transparency, but there’s still work to be done in getting this remix right.
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Purest Emotion at Dries Van Noten
Dries Van Noten’s 100th show distilled the style that won him hearts and minds decades ago.
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Resolute Futurism at Courrèges
Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant offered a series of well edited, and ingeniously rethought Courrèges staples.
The News in Brief
Pop Mart Quarterly Sales Fall Up to 50% as Labubu Fad Cools
Sales in the Americas fell 70 to 75 percent.
Zegna to Take Summer Fashion Show to Beijing
The Italian label has continued to enjoy solid growth in China, defying a wider downturn in demand for European luxury. The June 11 presentation of its summer collection will be the latest in a series of travelling shows.
Beiersdorf Sales Slightly Miss Expectations on Nivea Weakness
The German consumer goods maker marginally missed market expectations for third-quarter sales growth on Tuesday, with its key Nivea brand posting a third straight quarterly sales decline.
Audemars Piguet to Certify Its Pre-Owned Watches Following Rolex
Whereas Rolex is both a buyer and seller of its second-hand watches through official retail partners, Audemars is setting up a marketplace where sellers set prices.
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Says It’s Taken Control of Hugo Boss
The British retail group has pushed its stake in the German apparel brand above 50 percent in a move that will turn Hugo Boss into a subsidiary of Frasers.
Shein Agrees to Pay $100 Million to Settle US FTC Probe
The settlement, equivalent to 44 percent of the ultra fast-fashion company’s second-quarter profit, is the latest blow amid regulatory and tax crackdowns in Europe and the US that have hampered Shein’s growth.
Kering Drops 12% as Luxury Braces for Tough Winter
The recovery long promised by luxury brands seems nowhere in sight, as the expansion of war in the Middle East, along with China’s tax crackdown on the wealthy, piled further pressure on the world’s biggest luxury conglomerates in the third quarter, and executives buckled in for a tough winter.