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China’s Secondhand Luxury Market Grows Up to 20% as New Luxury Sales Shrink
Can ChatGPT’s Virtual Try-On Tell You If Clothes Will Fit?
Vinted and Rivals Agree Four Steps to Block Looted Goods After French Riots
How to Check a Designer Bag Before Buying Secondhand, Step by Step
Quince Launches in the UK With £50 Cashmere. Here’s How to Test It
Mulberry Sales Rise 18% at Full Price as the Luxury Giants Shrink
Cashmere Grades Explained: What Actually Decides the Quality of a Jumper
Double Denim Is Back for SS27: How to Wear It and Buy Denim That Lasts
How to Read a Clothing Label: What the Fibre Percentages Really Tell You
Armedangels’ $298 Wood-Fibre Windbreaker Named a TIME Best Invention
EU Ban on Destroying Unsold Clothes: What It Covers and What It Means for You
Brunello Cucinelli Lifts Growth Forecast to 12% as Logo-Led Luxury Stalls
Sheth London Debuts With Gujarati Handweaving and Runs Capped at 30 a Style
How to Judge a Wool Coat in the Shop: Label, Weight, Fibre and Make
Louis Vuitton Speedy Tops Fashionphile Resale Ranking Again, Value Up 16.2%
Alexander McQueen Parts With Seán McGirr After Three Years as Kering Exits Mount
LVMH Fashion Sales Fall 5% in the Third Quarter as Chinese Shoppers Pull Back
Moschino Owner Aeffe Seeks Wage Support for 389 Workers as €115m Sale Nears
Swaine, London’s 1750 Leather House, Is Opening Its First Paris Boutique
Physical Stores Are Carrying Fashion Growth While Online Goes Backwards — What the Numbers Hide, and Why Return Rates Are the Real Argument
Recycled Polyester Sheds as Much Microfibre as Virgin, and Sometimes More — the Most Common Green Claim in Clothing Points at the Wrong Variable
Seven Stores, Two Centuries of Name, and Bids Under Forty Million — the Luxury Middleman Is Finished and the Curating Job Is Now Yours
A Mid-Market Retailer Is Compounding While Luxury Stalls — the Counter-Evidence This Argument Has to Answer Honestly
A Designer Silhouette Has Arrived at High Street Prices — Four Checks to Run on the Rail, and What the Answer Teaches You
The Brands That Ignored Resale for a Decade Are Now Trying to Enclose It — and Their Own Figures Explain Why They Cannot
A Shrinking Company Bets on a Celebrity Sub-Line While an Independent Marks Twenty Years — Borrowed Attention Against Earned Position
A Small Brand Targeted Four Times Its Size in Three Years and Is Now in Liquidation — How to Tell One That Will Survive From One That Will Not
A Fibre Producer Is Closing Plants and the Industry Admits It Cannot Compare Its Own Chemistry — Why the Composition Label Is the Only Fact on a Garment
Resale Authentication Has Become Infrastructure — It Proves an Item Is Genuine, and Tells You Nothing About Whether It Is Any Good
A Charity Has Solved the Problem That Sank Every Venture-Funded Rental Business — and the Answer Was to Own No Inventory at All
A Fashion Week That Chose to Be Small and Gated — What Thirty-Six Shows and an Entry Requirement Recover That the Big Four Have Lost
A Succession Appointment and a Boot Brand Sold to a Specialist — Why Who Owns a Label Decides Whether It Is Made Well or Merely Marketed
A Marketplace Beat on Revenue, Raised Its Guidance and Cut Twelve Percent of Its Staff — What That Gap Means If You Buy From Independent Makers
Two Brands Under One Roof Moved in Opposite Directions in the Same Quarter — the Cleanest Evidence Yet That Specific Beats Broad
A Court Heard That a Luxury House Was Shredding Thousands of Bags Every Six Months — and the Destruction Was the Pricing Model Working as Designed
Profit Up, Revenue Down, and an Archive Partnership — What It Looks Like When a Brand Maintains a Reputation Instead of Spending It Down
A Bid for the Buildings and a Platform Measuring Throughput — Nobody in Modern Retail Is Paid to Judge Whether Clothes Are Any Good
One Country Wants Its Textile Industry Back and Another Has Outgrown Its Reputation — How the Way Clothes Are Bought Decides How They Are Made
A Fair-Fashion Pioneer Changed Hands and a Fast-Fashion Giant Funded Fibre Research — Only One of These Can Be Checked, and That Is the Whole Lesson
The Market Has Cut Its Price for Ultra-Fast Fashion by Two Thirds in Under Four Years — and a Valuation Is a Better Argument Than Any Editorial
A Scarcity Designer and a High Street Chain Are Rising in the Same Index — the Barbell Market Is Real, and the Middle Is Where It Breaks
A Luxury House Put Seven Hundred Million Into Making Things Instead of Raising Prices — and the Capital Expenditure Line Is the Most Honest Number in Fashion
Ferragamo Is Profitable Again by Three Tenths of One Percent — What a Break-Even Heritage House Reveals About the End of Mid-Luxury Pricing Power
Hugo Boss Has Lost a Tenth of Its Quarter and Control of Its Own Future — What Happens to a Brand When a Volume Operator Takes the Wheel
LVMH Has Sold Patou Back to the Man Who Built It — and the Accounting Explains Exactly Why Scale Could Not Make a Small House Work
Outspent From Above, Undercut From Below — Why the Mid-Sized Heritage House Is the Hardest Position in Luxury, and Why Craft Alone Is Not a Strategy
When a Magazine Calls a Brand Luxury, Read the Page Instead
Cropped Trousers Are Back, Which Is to Say They Never Left — How to Wear the Ankle-Length Cut and Buy It Without Paying the Trend Premium
French Favourite or Made in France — What a Nationality on the Label Actually Promises, and Five Checks Before You Pay the Heritage Premium
Adlib and the Authentic Ibiza Tradition — What a White Lace Dress Made by Hand Teaches About Where Real Value Lives