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The luxury outerwear brand’s “Genius” program — which has seen the brand roll out as many as eight capsule collections per year since 2018 alongside guest collaborators like Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli, Crag Green and Simone Rocha — is returning after a pause in 2022. Moncler will host a live showcase on Feb. 20, 2023 in London during fashion week. Collaborators are yet to be announced.
In May, Moncler chairman and chief executive Remo Ruffini told BoF the brand would put a focus on Gen-Z consumers, and tap collaborators outside of fashion when it relaunched Genius.
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Joan Kennedy is Editorial Associate at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers beauty and marketing.
Reports of financial strain at Farfetch amid a stalled deal with YNAP has driven confidence in multi-brand e-commerce to all-time lows. With value propositions eroding and investment drying up, a way forward remains unclear.
The share price of the group, which has seen frequent turnover in executives and creative talent, has fallen by 68 percent from its debut.
Once vulnerable to predators as complacent family members got involved in other endeavours, Hermès’ success has provided the group its best defence.
“What we saw in 2021 and 2022 was out of the norm,” said Francois-Henry Bennahmias, chief executive officer of Audemars Piguet.