Sycamore Said to Near Deal to Sell Boots
The private equity firm is nearing a deal, valued at $9 billion, to sell the UK health and beauty retail business to the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family, a source told Bloomberg.

TikTok’s Karen Kang, Kate Spade New York’s Danielle Macaluso and BoF’s Dan Hastings, joined BoF’s Yasmine Dahlberg to unpack how fashion brands can use cultural capital and creator partnerships to build fan communities on TikTok.

$50 bone broth and $20 smoothies have made the likes of Erewhon and Happier Grocery status symbols and buzzy marketing channels for fashion and beauty brands aiming to engage affluent shoppers on their local turf.

From Hermès to Loewe, fashion houses are swapping hyper-polished digital graphics for watercolour, paper collages and craft to restore a sense of humanity.

This week, Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion and implement significant changes to Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims that its platforms endangered children, with big implications for the social media industry and the marketers who depend on it.
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Five years after sorority rush first went viral, #RushTok has become a full-blown marketing machine, pushing brands to refine and extend their playbooks as competition intensifies.

As consumers — particularly Gen Z — seek out reasons to get offline, fashion and beauty labels are catering to this new demand with no-phone, sensory and analogue activations.

As brands gain better visibility into engagement, conversion and audience quality, the creator with the biggest following is no longer necessarily the most valuable.

As Meta’s AI-powered advertising system demands a growing supply of creative content to feed to users, fashion brands face a new challenge: how to keep up without sacrificing brand identity.
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Influencer marketing represents a nearly $44 billion dollar industry that’s set to surpass traditional media, but a stigma around its personalities and economics still persists. Should it?

BoF and TikTok convened brand leaders, editors, and creators at Nine Orchard in New York to examine how fashion and media players can move beyond trend-chasing to build lasting communities on the platform.

Labels like Away and Levi’s have moved on from bland rainbows to more daring takes on Pride month.

From luxury brands and The Devil Wears Prada 2 to Willy Chavarria and Nothing, a growing list of names are courting the founder of La Watch Party. In a new knowledge report by BoF, in partnership with TikTok, Lyas shares his recipe for success.
The private equity firm is nearing a deal, valued at $9 billion, to sell the UK health and beauty retail business to the Canadian branch of the billionaire Weston family, a source told Bloomberg.
The $150 million plant is the Danish jewellers first outside of Thailand, part of a bid to diversify its manufacturing footprint and boost supply-chain resilience.
The Kering CEO also denied any interest in buying a minority stake in Armani, adding that the group was focusing on other challenges.
The new initiative will explore how the industry can take responsibility for the millions of used and unsold garments exported to secondhand markets around the world.
The UK firm blamed a production error resulting in ‘water seepage’ for the disappearance of its newly launched camera-equipped toothbrush from stores.
‘Sephora at M&S’ will roll out in M&S stores and online starting next spring, with plans to expand to 100 locations by the end of 2028.
The Wegovy maker has signed a deal to license an experimental obesity pill from China’s Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals as it seeks to regain share of the global GLP-1 market.
The smart ring maker said on Tuesday it has delayed its US initial public offering, citing market uncertainty.