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.
The city’s April sales rose off a low comparative base following March’s 20.2 percent year-on-year surge, Inside Retail reports.
Though sales between January and April of this year have outpaced 2020′s figures by 8.5 percent, demand is still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels, owing largely to the continued absence of mainland Chinese tourists.
Online transactions made up 6.8 percent of overall retail sales, a 27.2 percent boost year-on-year.
Hong Kong’s census department estimates that the value of online retail sales during the January-April period was up 53.1 percent compared to the same period last year.
At Egypt Fashion Week, BoF founder Imran Amed shared the origin story of BoF and reflects on the forces that will shape fashion in the coming decade.
The timeless appeal of the south Asian classic has gone global — and a new London exhibition shows how it has been reinvented.
The second edition of Oud Fashion Talks explored the forces transforming the Gulf’s fashion industry today, with key learnings from BoF Insights’ ‘Fashion in the Middle East’ report and from executives of local retailers, manufacturers, designers and entrepreneurs.
Accessible luxury and advanced contemporary brands in the US and Europe can expect greater competition from Australian labels expanding overseas like Camilla, Aje and Rebecca Vallance.