Shares of Versace Owner Capri Seen Falling 30% If Deal With Coach Owner Tapestry Fails
Since the merger announcement, Capri has reported weaker-than-forecast earnings twice, spurring concern about its performance in the coming quarters.
Lulu Kennedy
Fashion Week
Mowalola, Fashion’s Subversive Rising Star, Debuts in Paris
In just six years since graduating from Central Saint Martins, the Nigerian-British creative has attracted deals with Yeezy, New Balance and Dover Street Market for her transgressive “burglarwear” aesthetic. Now, she’s getting ready to reintroduce her label on fashion’s biggest stage.
Mowalola, Fashion’s Subversive Rising Star, Debuts in Paris
In just six years since graduating from Central Saint Martins, the Nigerian-British creative has attracted deals with Yeezy, New Balance and Dover Street Market for her transgressive “burglarwear” aesthetic. Now, she’s getting ready to reintroduce her label on fashion’s biggest stage.
The BoF Podcast: Lulu Kennedy on London’s Young Creatives
BoF’s Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks speaks with the Fashion East Founder about the future of London’s emerging designers.
In London, Fashion to Remember the Times
BoF’s editor-at-large reflects on a remarkable season brought forth by the city’s most creative young minds.
Fashion East: Slimmer in Scale, Steady in Spirit
In lieu of the usual runway trio, Central Saint Martins graduates Gareth Wrighton and Yuhan Wang staged back-to-back shows, prefaced by a presentation by Romanian footwear designer Ancuta Sarca.
At Fashion East, More Than Clothes
The three designers couldn’t have been more distinctively different, but each of them had something more to say.
Charles Jeffrey Gets Down to Business
Ahead of his show this Saturday at London’s Fashion Week Men’s, the designer talks exclusively to Tim Blanks about the next chapter of his Loverboy label.
An Emerging Designer's Quiet Culture Clash
Asai's London-based designer A Sai Ta has gone from selling his brand via Instagram DMs to being stocked at the likes of Dover Street Market and Ssense without sacrificing his experimental touch.
Fashion East’s Class of Spring-Summer 2019
This season, Charlotte Knowles, Asai and newcomer Yuhan Wang raised their game.
London’s New Guard Is Still Kicking
On the first day of London Fashion Week, emerging labels Kiko Kostadinov, Xu Zhi and Matty Bovan pushed boundaries while embracing newfound commerciality.
A Snapshot of the Present at MAN
Art School, Stefan Cooke and Rottingdean Bazaar celebrated perseverance in the face of oppression as well as vernacular banalities and ordinariness transfigured by technology.
Symonds Pearmain's Matchy Unmatchy
In their debut runway outing, the designer duo bridged fashion and art, playing with the super-banal, but it is their scarcity-driven sales strategy that could be the label's real wildcard.
Fashion East's Eclectic Britannia
This season's designers were a wonderful example of how far British fashion has come in terms of marrying creation, commerce and diversity.
Company Snapshot
The bohemian talent scout’s non-profit group fosters young British design talent with mentoring and funding, and spawned her own Lulu & Co label.
The News in Brief
Celine Adds To Fragrance Line-Up
The new scent, Zouzou, is the fashion house’s first new perfume since 2022.
Unilever Sales Rise More Than Expected, Led by Beauty
Unilever Plc sales jumped more than expected in the first quarter as Chief Executive Officer Hein Schumacher pushes ahead with his turnaround plan and shoppers come back to premium brands.
Biden Signs Possible TikTok Ban Into Law; ByteDance Vows Legal Challenge
President Biden signed the bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok’s US assets or face a ban.
Google Postpones Phasing Out of Ad Cookies in Chrome Browser
The Alphabet Inc. company said in a blog post Tuesday that it’s still working with the ad industry and regulators on the plan.
Sales at Italy’s Moncler Up 16% in First Quarter Boosted by China
Overall revenues for the three months through March totalled 818 million euros ($874 million), above a company-provided analyst consensus of 786 million euros.
PZ Cussons to Sell St Tropez, May Exit Africa
Embattled by weak demand and currency issues in Nigeria, the company is looking to slim down in order to return to growth.
EU Parliament Approves New Business Supply Chain Audit Law
EU lawmakers backed the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by 374 votes to 235 against, with 19 abstentions.