Harvey Nichols Appoints New CEO
Harvey Nichols has named Julia Goddard chief executive following the departure of Manju Malhotra — who held the post for 25 years — in late 2023.
With everything from $850 cashmere sweaters to screen-printed tote bags, brands are using ‘vote’ merchandise to connect with consumers.
Hoodies, sneakers and graphic T-shirts may have peaked as high fashion trends, but the movement’s wider influence is far from over.
The designer’s enchanting rise and predictable fall are emblematic of what’s wrong with the system.
The designer, whose brand is now owned by direct-to-consumer cashmere label Naadam, is hoping he can crack the code on affordable designer basics.
After a two-year sabbatical following a pause on his Silas Chou-backed namesake label, which is set to return this autumn, Panichgul is launching a personal passion project, Hommegirls, for women who shop menswear.
There are few designers showing here who have a sense of what they stand for or why they need the platform of fashion week. It doesn't have to be that way.
The market is changing, but the fashion system isn’t changing with it.
The one-hour delivery option will be available only to Amazon Prime members in London, and will come at a cost.
Silas Chou’s failed experiment at Thakoon is not the end of ‘see now, buy now,’ but it does underscore the limits of the approach for smaller brands and the sheer scale of investment and effort required to make it work.
The New York-based designer and billionaire investor Silas Chou are hitting 'pause' on the Thakoon brand.
It’s becoming easier to see the woman Thakoon is dressing in his wares. And that means he’s getting somewhere.
With his direct-to-consumer, in-season strategy well underway, designer Thakoon Panichgul’s Autumn/Winter 2016 collection aimed to be a brand-defining moment.
The one-time fashion writer set up his eponymous American brand with a romantic angle and quickly won critical support.
Harvey Nichols has named Julia Goddard chief executive following the departure of Manju Malhotra — who held the post for 25 years — in late 2023.
The capital injection will strengthen the company’s earlier pivot from being an African designer e-commerce site to being a business-to-business venture helping emerging brands enter global 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.