The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Dubai’s government has publicly declared it is prepared to continue with its plans to host the 2020 World Expo, which was already postponed once and is slated to run October 20 until April 2021, despite a resurgence of Covid-19 in the UAE.
It has previously been reported that the Expo would include pavilions from luxury brand, Cartier, alongside country pavilions from around the world, attracting millions of visitors to the Middle Eastern retail hub.
The Expo, which Dubai has been preparing to host for a decade, is meant to be one of the biggest events globally this year and generate billions of dollars for the government, if visitors can be persuaded to travel there.
In recent months, the resurgence of Covid-19 in the UAE in recent months has complicated its planning. Daily cases in the United Arab Emirates have quadrupled since November as the country opened up for travel and eased movement restrictions, though the emirate has also rolled out an aggressive inoculation program.
Local streetwear brands, festivals and stores selling major global labels remain relatively small but the country’s community of hypebeasts and sneakerheads is growing fast.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Senegalese investors, an Indian menswear giant and workers’ rights in Myanmar.
Though e-commerce reshaped retailing in the US and Europe even before the pandemic, a confluence of economic, financial and logistical circumstances kept the South American nation insulated from the trend until later.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Korean shopping app Ably, Kenya’s second-hand clothing trade and the EU’s bid to curb forced labour in Chinese cotton.