Adidas Is Seeing Hot Demand for Sambas and Yeezys
The German sportswear company now expects to generate operating profit of around €700 million ($743 million), an increase from the previous target of €500 million.
Eva Kruse
Shanghai Fashion Week: A Barometer for the World’s Largest Fashion Market
China’s fashion capital will be the first to completely return to live, physical shows but insiders concede it’s not quite ‘business as usual.’
Global Fashion Agenda Calls on Industry to Rebuild Sustainably
The industry advocacy group has laid out six key focus areas for senior executives, calling on the industry to 'future proof' its business model by placing sustainability at its core.
Investing in the Sustainability Sisterhood
Female impact investors are putting their money where their mouth is, backing sustainable fashion companies and hoping their bets pay off in more ways than one. But how savvy are values-based investments in the post-pandemic reality?
Is Your Fashion Brand Ethical?
More and more brands are claiming that the clothes they sell have a positive social impact. Here are four essential steps toward making that statement true.
Fashion's Growth-Focused Business Model Is Not Sustainable. What's the Solution?
The industry has yet to solve the trade-off that selling more clothes, bags and shoes fundamentally requires more resources.
Sustainability
What Fashion Can Learn from a Decade of Disasters
As the fashion industry heads into a new decade, it is facing more pressure than ever before to clean up its act when it comes to climate change and human rights. Whether or not it does could determine which brands survive the next 10 years.
What Fashion Can Learn from a Decade of Disasters
As the fashion industry heads into a new decade, it is facing more pressure than ever before to clean up its act when it comes to climate change and human rights. Whether or not it does could determine which brands survive the next 10 years.
5 Takeaways From Fashion’s Sustainability Summit
The industry’s annual gathering in Copenhagen had an ominous conclusion: time is running out, and there’s a lot still to be done.
Making the Business Case for Sustainability
Reputational and financial risks related to the industry’s exposure to climate change are creeping up executives’ agendas, coming into focus at the launch of the Global Fashion Agenda’s new sustainability priorities at Davos.
Levi’s Bets on Lasers
The world's oldest denim brand is rolling out a new technology that could have longterm implications for the business.
Fashion's 7 Priorities To Achieve Sustainability
In the lead up to this year's Copenhagen Fashion Summit, Eva Kruse’s sustainability forum Global Fashion Agenda highlights seven sustainability measures every fashion CEO needs to prioritise this year.
Sustainability
What Trump’s Climate Reversal Means for the Fashion Industry
While largely symbolic, the US president’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement still has dangerous global implications. But many industry leaders remain committed to their individual carbon emission reduction goals.
What Trump’s Climate Reversal Means for the Fashion Industry
While largely symbolic, the US president’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement still has dangerous global implications. But many industry leaders remain committed to their individual carbon emission reduction goals.
5 Sustainability Threats Facing Fashion
Precious few fashion businesses are future-proofed for the threat of environmental change.
Company Snapshot
The ex-editor led the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the world’s most important forum on sustainable fashion, and is an executive of Pangaia.
The News in Brief
Sephora, Perfumes and Cosmetics Drive LVMH Sales Growth
Amid a luxury slowdown, strong performance by LVMH’s perfumes and cosmetics and selective retailing divisions show a healthy appetite for beauty.
Dr Martens Shares Plunge as Tough Outlook Sets Challenge for New CEO
The company, which named chief brand officer Ije Nwokorie as its next CEO, said it was anticipating a double-digit percentage decline in US wholesale revenues, which would dent overall profits.
Procter & Gamble Price Hikes Thin Shoppers’ Wallets
Rising prices of personal care products could quash Americans’ habit of buying big-brand-name items for their household pantries, posing a threat to Procter & Gamble, one of the world’s biggest makers of packaged goods.
Traders Fear Antitrust Risk in $8.5 Billion Deal Between Coach, Michael Kors Owners
The merger arbitrage investor community turned increasingly bearish on the deal last week, as they interpreted some comments from FTC officials at a conference as negative for the deal.
US Retail Sales Top Forecasts as Consumers Keep Fuelling Growth
The value of retail purchases, unadjusted for inflation, increased 0.7 percent from February, Commerce Department data showed Monday.
Tapestry Merger With Versace Owner Capri Gets EU, Japan Approval
The merger, which would bring top luxury labels such as Tapestry’s Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and Capri’s Jimmy Choo and Versace under one roof, still awaits approval from the United States.
Online Marketplace Verishop Acquires Data Firm Trendalytics
E-commerce marketplace Verishop bought data analytics firm Trendalytics in a cash and equity deal that closed in March. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.