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The State of Fashion 2019: An ‘Urgent Awakening’ for the Industry

BoF and McKinsey & Company's latest State of Fashion report forecasts a year of slowing growth, a paradigm shift between consumers and the fashion system, and a tipping point as Greater China overtakes the US as the world’s largest fashion market.
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Watches of Switzerland Plans a US Invasion

The UK’s biggest retailer of luxury Swiss watches is pushing into America with its glossy showroom model intent on luring investors as much as millennials, as hedge fund owner Apollo prepares for an exit.
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News & Analysis

Puma Goes Back to the Future With Computerised Running Shoes

The German company is selling a refurbished version of its 1986 shoe with computers in the heels.
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In Paris, 'Yellow Vest' Protests Cut Sharply Into Luxury Trade

Several weekends of violent demonstrations across France have hit the capital’s sellers of high-end goods hard during the year’s most important shopping period.
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Burberry Turnaround? Analysts Aren’t Buying It

Shares of the British trench coat-maker have fallen 4.6 percent this year, a similar level to when chief executive Gobbetti took charge mid-2017.
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Cultural Appropriation: Theft or Innovation?

14 July 2017

Some see cultural appropriation as inherently disrespectful, while others see it as vital to creative expression and innovation. Who’s right?

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