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Store fashion holds firm as online slump ends seven-week growth run
UK fashion's run of growth came to an end last week, but the fall was concentrated entirely in one channel: in-store sales kept rising, while a sharp online decline dragged the category into the red. Fashion total like-for-like (LFL) sales slipped -0.84%, according to the latest BDO High Street Sales Tracker, against a broadly flat -0.57% base a...
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Birkenstock raises forecast as tariffs impact margin
German footwear manufacturer Birkenstock increased its revenue in the third quarter of the current 2026 financial year, subsequently raising its forecast. In the three months to June 30, the company achieved a revenue increase of 13 percent (plus 15 percent on a currency-neutral basis) to 719.5 million euros (830 million dollars). After nine...
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Eoin Tonge: The finance chief steering Primark toward life without ABF
On April 21, the British food and retail group Associated British Foods (ABF) confirmed what investors had been circling for months: Primark, the Dublin-headquartered value fashion chain trading as Penneys in Ireland, would be split from the group's food, sugar and grocery businesses and listed as its own FTSE 100 company. The separation,...
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The impact of textile composition on consumer purchasing decisions
In this episode of The Debrief segment on The Business of Fashion Podcast, correspondents Sheena Butler-Young and Shayeza Walid unpack a critical shift in consumer behavior: the migration away from synthetic textiles like polyester toward natural fibers. While textile composition historically sat firmly within supply chain and sustainability...
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Video: Bloomberg Originals analyzes Gucci’s shift from luxury peak to retail markdown
In an investigative report from Bloomberg Originals, market analysts evaluate the strategic missteps that led Italian fashion house Gucci from peak industry performance into retail markdown territory. Once the primary growth engine for parent conglomerate Kering, the iconic luxury house faces mounting challenges stemming from over-saturation,...
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Video: Alexa Chung reflects on two decades in the fashion industry
Alexa Chung continues to be a prominent figure in the fashion industry, maintaining her influence over two decades into her career. In the Season 3 premiere of "The Good Buy," the model, designer, and presenter joined Harper's Bazaar to provide insight into her personal aesthetic and her ongoing partnership with Mulberry. The discussion covered...
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On opens first store in Denmark as it adds four California locations
Swiss premium sportswear brand On has opened its first store in Denmark, the latest move in a retail push that will add four locations in California this fall and has taken the brand into Brazil for the first time. The Copenhagen store opened last week at Købmagergade 39 in Indre By, the city's historic center and one of its busiest pedestrian...
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Smythson reopens store in Heathrow Terminal 5
British leather goods and stationery brand Smythson has reopened its store in Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport. The 74 square metre airside space was designed with interior design studio Four-by-Two and takes its cues from the gilt edges of the brand's notebooks and diaries, using sculptural forms and metallic detailing across the...
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MondeVita acquires majority stake in Underscore District
Following the acquisition of Raffaele Caruso spa, a Soragna-based menswear manufacturer founded in 1964, MondeVita has acquired a strategic majority stake in Underscore District. Underscore District is the Milan-based brand accelerator behind Magliano, Gr10K and the multi-brand retailer Wok Store. "The deal represents the second step in...
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Video: Post-war cinema's influence on fashion photography
During the post-World War II era, particularly throughout the 1970s, cinema actively engaged with the themes of fascism. Works like Bernardo Bertolucci’s seminal The Conformist (1970), Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972), Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974), and Pier Paolo Pasolini's 100 Days of Sodom (1975) drew strong visual and thematic links to...
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