LVMH-Backed L Catterton Agrees to Buy Majority Stake in Kiko
The private equity fund has entered into a definitive deal with the Percassi family, which will retain a “significant stake” in the business.
This week, everyone will be talking about which designers will produce viral looks at the Met Gala, Louis Vuitton's cruise show in New York and modest fashion's Ramadan moment. Read our BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
This week, everyone will be talking about Chanel's resort show in Paris, how Adidas plans to extend the Yeezy craze and the latest denim spinoff. Read our BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
For Prada's first cruise show in New York, its filter was turned up to the max. The designer proposed new silhouettes and details that moved far away from today’s overwrought trends, providing an urgent, necessary relief from tired fashion.
Alessandro Michele’s signal achievement is this: predictability doesn’t obviate pleasurability. In fact, part of the pleasure of a Gucci show is watching the way he warps the by-now familiar tropes.
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While some smaller labels are abandoning Cruise shows altogether, luxury megabrands continue to pour up to $10 million into elaborate spectacles. Is it worth the investment?
Pierpaolo Piccioli’s latest Cruise collection was informed by the hip-hop culture of late-1970s New York, but it was his own masterful sampling ability that kept it fresh.
Christian Dior’s first female creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri and chief executive Sidney Toledano reflect on the state of the storied house as it hosts a ‘Sauvage’-themed Cruise show in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Tim Blanks talks to Alessandro Michele to decode the creative thinking behind his latest collection. Watch now.
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More is more is more fuels Alessandro Michele's gorgeous fashion fever dream.
At Blenheim Palace, where Dior staged its Cruise 2017 show, grand old traditions — both French and British — collided with peculiar compatibility.
Although the fundamental incongruity of the moment was lost on no one, both Karl Lagerfeld and Fidel Castro share an ability to imagine a world and bring it into being.
BoF editor-in-chief Imran Amed recaps the week in the business of fashion.
The private equity fund has entered into a definitive deal with the Percassi family, which will retain a “significant stake” in the business.
The company confirmed in January that it planned to restart activities in Venezuela in the first half of 2024 with local partner Grupo Futura.
The move means Shein could be liable for fines of as much as 6 percent of global revenue for violating the law, designed to curtail the spread of illegal content online.
Since the merger announcement, Capri has reported weaker-than-forecast earnings twice, spurring concern about its performance in the coming quarters.
The new scent, Zouzou, is the fashion house’s first new perfume since 2022.
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.
President Biden signed the bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok’s US assets or face a ban.
The Alphabet Inc. company said in a blog post Tuesday that it’s still working with the ad industry and regulators on the plan.