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 arrival of springtime and progress made in nationwide vaccination is giving a much-needed boost to the country’s top brick-and-mortar retailers, Korea BizWire reports.
During the weekend of March 5, Hyundai Department Store witnessed a 109.8 percent surge in sales compared to 2020 and sales were up by 26.5 percent compared to 2019. Meanwhile, sales at Lotte Department Store were up 94 percent year-on-year and 9 percent compared to 2019; Shinsegae Department Store saw sales increase by 94.7 percent and 14 percent compared to 2020 and 2019 respectively.
Luxury goods performed especially well, with Lotte and Shinsegae reporting 143 percent and 109.9 percent sales boosts year-on-year and Hyundai reporting a 138.6 percent uptick.
Christine Edman, executive officer of Japanese e-commerce site Zozo, talks about what makes the country’s consumers tick, and how the fashion landscape is set to shift in the years ahead.
People of Indian and Pakistani heritage are critical to the UAE’s fashion sector, leading billion-dollar retail empires, trading textiles and jewellery and stitching garments for Middle Eastern brands.
Influencer Irene Kim and V&A curator Rosalie Kim join Chanel executive Yana Peel to chart South Korea’s rise to global creative juggernaut.
BoF sits down with Zainab Abdulrazzaq, founder of 3oud.com and organiser of the Oud Fashion Talks, to discover the next steps for the event, designed to cement Kuwait’s place on the international fashion map.