Fashion

The first Grasse Perfume Week opened on Thursday to showcase Grasse’s expertise and the wide diversity of contemporary perfume creation. Read More

Luxury U.S. fashion brand Alexander Wang has appointed Robert Rizzolo to the role of global brand president. Read More

President Donald Trump’s two-tiered trade deal with Vietnam aims squarely at practices China has long used to skirt US tariffs: The widespread legal shifting of production to Southeast Asian factories. Read More

Once the darling of Japanese stock investors, department stores have lagged the recent broad market rally and could fall further behind as a strong yen dents tourist spending power.  Read More

Faced with a clientele increasingly attracted by the luxury experience rather than by products, the major groups in the sector are turning to ultra-high-end tourism, according to a KPMG study published on Thursday. Read More

​H&M Group’s Arket chain expects to open its Dublin store this month and it’s a key opening as it will be the Nordic lifestyle brand’s first physical space in Ireland. Read More

​Retailers are increasingly diving deep into artificial intelligence and just days after Mango announced its new AI-based Mango Stylist personalisation tool, Debenhams Group had a big announcement of its own. Read More

Giorgio Armani and Kith have returned with a second collaboration paying homage to the term “estate”, in a melange of Italian elegance and modern New York sophistication.  Read More

​A new study shows that “self-care” is a key priority for many UK consumers with more than a third of them seeing it as a necessity, driven by younger consumers. Read More

Oasis kicks off its reunion tour with brands like Burberry, Adidas, and Levi’s capitalizing on Britpop nostalgia, launching co-branded fashion collections amid a summer surge in ’90s menswear trends. Read More