African Designer Platform The Folklore Raises $3.4 Million
The capital injection will aid the company’s pivot from being an e-commerce site to being a business-to-business venture helping emerging brands enter US retailers.
Dior veteran Olivier Bialobos has balanced heritage, innovation and unprecedented scale as he steered communications through the tenures of a succession of designers and three CEOS. "Desirability — not just visibility— has to be the target," he told BoF in The State of Fashion 2024.
Dior veteran Olivier Bialobos has balanced heritage, innovation and unprecedented scale as he steered communications through the tenures of a succession of designers and three CEOS. "Desirability — not just visibility— has to be the target," he told BoF in The State of Fashion 2024.
In order to better clarify his new vision for the brand, Kris Van Assche may need to trust his instincts more.
The collection was freewheeling but lacking cohesion. A few more months of study might help Kris Van Assche hone his recipe.
This week, everyone will be talking about Virgil Abloh, Hedi Slimane, Kim Jones and the other designers showing at Paris Fashion Week Men's - and how the the buzziest brands share a corporate parent. Read our BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
This week, everyone will be talking about Virgil Abloh, Hedi Slimane, Kim Jones and the other designers showing at Paris Fashion Week Men's - and how the the buzziest brands share a corporate parent. Read our BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
The Belgian designer fills the role left vacant by Haider Ackermann.
The creative shuffle is the first big move by Pietro Beccari, the newly installed chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture.
Kris van Assche injects himself into a sweet spot somewhere between the 1940s and the 1980s, and the result was actually quite palatable.
Several established luxury houses including Balenciaga, Dior Homme and Lanvin have turned to chunky footwear as they target increasingly street-savvy consumers.
Van Assche showed a reflection on what he considers to be the DNA of Dior menswear, but his signature hybrid of sport and tailoring will always err on the side of the latter.
Kris Van Assche has vision. The set and soundtrack proved that. But he needs to surrender fully to it — step out of the corner and onto the dance floor.
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Van Assche talks about surrounding himself with crazy people as a vicarious inroad to altered states of consciousness, but the chaos is strictly controlled.
The capital injection will aid the company’s pivot from being an e-commerce site to being a business-to-business venture helping emerging brands enter US retailers.
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.
Amid a luxury slowdown, strong performance by LVMH’s perfumes and cosmetics and selective retailing divisions show a healthy appetite for beauty.
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.
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.
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.
The value of retail purchases, unadjusted for inflation, increased 0.7 percent from February, Commerce Department data showed Monday.
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.