Fashion

Guess Jeans is set to open its first store in mainland Asia, in Tokyo, on July 4. Read More

“Deliberately hampered” and “weakened”: lawyers for the consortium including Iconix and Xavier Niel behind the takeover bid for the French sports brand are calling for “a reopening of the debates.” Read More

Safilo Group brand Carrera Eyewear has announced the renewal of its partnership with Ducati, extending their collaboration through 2029. Read More

​Smythson of Bond Street, the high-end British leather goods business, has been acquired from Jacques Bahbout’s Tivoli Group by Oakley Capital, a pan-European, mid-market private equity investor.  Read More

​Digital wholesale management platform JOOR has “responded to the need for speed” and launched ‘Ready-To-Ship Style’, which it says is a “first-of-its-kind in-season buying tariff-mitigating digital trade show”. Read More

​A series of UK shop price deflation reports has come to an end with the latest numbers from the British Retail Consortium/NielsenIQ, released on Tuesday, showing price inflation is back. Read More

Rimowa, the LVMH-owned luggage brand famed for its sleek aluminum cases, has named ex-Jimmy Choo exec Elisabetta Soffietti to lead its European retail push as the brand expands into new markets and lifestyle categories. Read More

The stakes are high for the luxury brands, which for years have relied on brisk sales in China to fuel their global growth, and ambitions, but are now facing a slowdown in demand in the world’s second-biggest economy. Read More

Parvus Asset Management, a hedge fund registered in Britain, has raised its stake in Kering, a filing by France’s financial regulator showed on Friday, now holding around 5% of the group’s share capital. Read More

Jacquemus closed Paris Men’s Fashion Week on Sunday by taking over the Château de Versailles, with a Spring-Summer 2026 collection that drew on his farming roots. Read More