London Fashion Week may be a magnet for emerging talent but it also attracts some big names and it will have an extra one this September as McQueen has announced that it will return to LFW for its SS27 show. Read More
The multi-brand retailer established by the founders of Veja has opened its fourth Parisian boutique; a new space is dedicated to premium fashion and emerging labels. Read More
Italian cash-for-gold trader Gens Aurea said on Monday it is planning to list on the Milan stock exchange, marking what would be the first major initial public offering in the country in three years. Read More
Spanish luxury fashion house Loewe is bolstering its leadership team with the appointment of Eloise Hautcoeur, who joins from Versace, as its new global communications director, effective from Monday. Read More
President Donald Trump’s fingerprints are all over this World Cup — even the stadium gift shops, trade editor Emily Cadei writes in. Granted, few of the customers that are mobbing official FIFA merch stores are examining the provenance of their $100+ jerseys or $50 baseball caps. But those “Made in” tags tell a story of…
Sunday presents another test for both Belgium and Maximus Textoris Pulcher, the rescue cat that Prime Minister Bart De Wever hoped would become the 2026 successor to Paul the Octopus, who predicted (with surprising accuracy) the winners of the 2010 World Cup. De Wever’s cat has become something of a feline influencer — Maximus’s Instagram…
ATLANTA — Gulf countries have plowed billions of dollars into domestic soccer, led by a multi-year Saudi spending extravaganza that has brought global superstars and new attention to its domestic league. But it is doing little to improve their showing at the World Cup. The United Arab Emirates failed to qualify. Qatar has been on…
Jordan is among the teams making its first-ever appearance at a World Cup, and for the country’s ambassador to the United States it is a chance to introduce the world to a country often viewed through the lens of regional conflict and security challenges — and to showcase a different side of the Middle East….
VANCOUVER — On the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics, protesters marched to BC Place, the culmination of a decade-long tug-of-war over whether Vancouver had room for a global sports mega-event. Activists first tried to block the Olympics from coming to town, then tried to use it to extract social commitments from organizers, and…
LOS ANGELES — Moments after Iran and Belgium battled to a scoreless draw at SoFi Stadium, the Belgian players beat a hasty retreat to the locker room. Not the Iranian World Cup team. The players on Team Melli lingered on the field, doing a slow lap to cheers from supporters who’d dominated the stands with…
