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Luxury

Dover Street Market Aims to Reinvent Retail (Again)

Comme des Garçons’ chain of luxury bazaars reimagined multi-brand retail. Now, CEO Adrian Joffe is aiming to do it again with radical events platform 3537.

Retail

Can Arthur Kar Build the Supreme of Cars?

L’art de l’automobile’s new collaboration with Porsche, set to be unveiled at Dover Street Market this week, is the latest sign of the growing opportunity at the intersection of fashion and automobiles.

Luxury

Dover Street Market Reimagines the Model for Mission-Based Brands

The Comme des Garçons-backed retailer is adding Dan Colen’s Sky High Farm to its Dover Street Market Paris brand incubator and asking stakeholders across the value chain, from suppliers to retailers, to donate a portion of their profits to fight food insecurity.

Retail

Nordstrom Partners with Dover Street Market

The tie-up is another sign of retail’s ongoing evolution in a challenging environment. It’s the first time the Comme des Garçons-owned concept store

Retail

Dover Street to Open ‘Little Market’ in Paris

The Comme des Garçons-owned concept store is expanding its footprint in the city with a small shop stocking seven designers that are a part of the

Workplace & Talent

Dover Street Market: Built Upon Beautiful Chaos

LONDON, United Kingdom — Owned by Comme des Garçons and known for its daring edit, creative visual merchandising and bi-annual “tachiagari” whereby

News & Analysis

Dover Street Market’s Menswear Q&A

Owned by Comme des Garçons and known for its daring edit, creative visual merchandising and bi-annual “tachiagari” whereby the interior of the store

Luxury

Can Shayne Oliver’s HBA Pull Off a Second Coming?

Hood By Air is back with business partner Edison Chen and a strategy that’s more focused on streetwear and direct-to-consumer distribution.  

Media

Self Service's Video Issue: A Way Forward For Fashion Media?

The decline in print advertising is squeezing traditional fashion magazines. But brands’ hunger for video content could spell opportunity. Editor and creative director Ezra Petronio tells BoF how Self Service is adapting.

Retail

How to Build a Customer-Centric Brand — Download the Case Study

For 50 years, Urban Outfitters has managed to ride the waves of mid-priced apparel retail without succumbing to the steady decline of its competitors. The key to the success of its brand stable — which also includes Anthropologie, Free People and Nuuly — is the company’s belief that the customer should define the product mix, not the merchant.

Luxury

Peter Do Says ‘No’ to the Industry Playbook

The creative director and co-founder of his namesake label is prioritising creative freedom and profitability over growth, and still not showing at New York Fashion Week.

Retail

Can Brand Accelerators Save Emerging Labels from the Pandemic?

The Covid-19 crisis has made going it alone even harder for high-potential young labels. Brand platforms offer cash and critical operational support.

The News in Brief

LVMH Chairman Arnault to Visit China

LVHM chief Bernard Arnault is set to visit China, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, as European luxury goods makers closely track the pace of recovery of the key market following three years of Covid disruptions.

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