Playground Closes $2 Million in Funding Round
The intimate wellness brand completed its first institutional raise after seeing 700 percent revenue growth and is launching in Target.
The Bangkok-based designers behind Boyy, who grew a cult following for their minimalist aesthetic, are preparing for the next stage of growth, starting with a move to Milan.
Support from Queen Elizabeth II gave the fledgling British label a big boost. Richard Quinn talks numbers and next moves.
La Double J has been a breakout star of the Milanese fashion world, but its formula for success is surprisingly simple.
The once-sleepy Australian eyewear label is on track to become a $100 million brand, thanks, at least in part, to the blockbuster — and somewhat unexpected — success of its partnership with womenswear designer Adam Selman.
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What began as a niche cashmere line has blossomed into a brand with almost $60 million in annual revenue and plans to take the quintessential Copenhagen girl global.
Vejas, the Toronto label helmed by 20-year-old wunderkind Vejas Kruszewski, saw revenue growth of 700 percent last year. Now the LVMH Special Prize winner must scale in a sustainable way.
In a time when contemporary brands are on the wane, the 19-year-old label has managed to more than double its sales through a series of instinctual, pragmatic moves.
BoF spoke exclusively with Gosha Rubchinskiy and Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons, to learn how the company catalysed the rapid growth of the skater-inflected fashion label.
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Turkish handbag brand Manu Atelier was steadily winning over domestic consumers before an unexpected post by Eva Chen catapulted their 12-month-old business onto the international stage.
In the last year, Han Chong’s breakout label Self-Portrait has attracted 250 stockists and sold out on Net-a-Porter in two hours. How did he do it?
After seven years making prototype garments for the likes of Céline and Balenciaga, Daniel Pallas and his wife Véronique decided to launch their own line, which now generates about 50 percent of the company’s total turnover.
With an appearance in blockbuster film The Hunger Games and stockists like Net-a-Sporter, high-end activewear brand Lucas Hugh is poised for growth. BoF speaks to founder Anjhe Mules about how years of product development and premium positioning in an ascendant category have paid off.
With an appearance in blockbuster film The Hunger Games and stockists like Net-a-Sporter, high-end activewear brand Lucas Hugh is poised for growth. BoF speaks to founder Anjhe Mules about how years of product development and premium positioning in an ascendant category have paid off.
The intimate wellness brand completed its first institutional raise after seeing 700 percent revenue growth and is launching in Target.
The public company reported strong sales, as demand for its dermatological skincare and injectable products surged.
The European Parliament approved rules on Tuesday to ban in the EU the sale, import and export of goods made using forced labour.
Global investors have cut holdings of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. to a four-year low as the company grapples with weak consumer demand and rising competition.
On Sept. 10 the eight designers will present their collections at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.
The results help to explain owner Mayhoola’s decision to shake up the brand’s aesthetic direction by hiring former Gucci designer Alessandro Michele.
The social media platform will effectively ban most weight loss-related content from appearing on its app starting next month, according to a sweeping new set of community guidelines published on its website last week.
A taffeta ball gown with the span of a light aircraft is one of the more magnificent items to go on sale at Christie’s in June as part of an auction of the personal wardrobe of Dame Vivienne Westwood.