As Shanghai Fashion Week returns to business as usual, organisers and retailers in Tokyo and Seoul are turning their focus to homegrown talent.
With brands seemingly unable to avoid outrage in the face of rising nationalism in the world’s largest luxury market, hiring chief diversity officers may not be enough.
An influencer incubator’s IPO and subsequent share plunge speak volumes about the future of engagement and trust in an $18 billion industry. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.
Even as print media sputtered in the West, fashion magazines in Greater China continued to thrive on seemingly endless advertising dollars chasing a consumer hungry for information and advice. But are the heady days now over?
As the Cannes Film Festival winds down, BoF investigates the increasingly lucrative business of dressing Asian celebrities.
In a multi-billion-dollar influencer economy, bartering for gifts and front-row seats has given way to paid projects, but who really has the power?
BoF spoke with several travelling Chinese shoppers from a range of demographics at luxury shopping meccas in and around London.
A part of the Lane Crawford Joyce Group, MyMM is fusing mobile commerce and social media in a unique retail strategy that is set to make waves in the Chinese fashion market.
The rise of digital platforms is unleashing new potential for indie fashion and youth media in China, challenging the dominance of legacy media players.
China’s fashion designers are making serious inroads abroad but why aren’t more of its photographers, stylists and other fashion creatives making a bigger global impact?
As Chinese messaging app WeChat hits 500 million users, BoF examines how mobile publishing is changing the country's media landscape.
Almost every major fashion country has one city that shines brighter than the rest. But China’s vast, diverse market defies the norm. In Part 1 of a two-part investigation, we examine the fashion capitals of Shanghai and Beijing. Next month, in Part 2, we explore Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Almost every major fashion country has one city that shines brighter than the rest. But China’s vast, diverse market defies the norm. In Part 1 of a two-part investigation, we examine the fashion capitals of Shanghai and Beijing. Next month, in Part 2, we explore Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
The former senior fashion editor of Elle China brings a fresh aesthetic to the Chinese fashion media with her WeChat mobile magazine Leaf.
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.
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.
French fashion house Balmain has appointed Matteo Sgarbossa as chief executive, effective May 6.
The world’s second-largest economy has struggled to mount a strong and sustainable a post-pandemic bounce, burdened by a protracted property downturn, mounting local government debts and weak private-sector spending.
The Birkin bag maker’s sales are set to hit the “symbolic” €20 billion ($21.3 billion) level by 2027 or before, according to an Apr. 12 note by Thomas Chauvet.
