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Ralph Lauren Gets $82m Back in Tariff Refunds as Its Average Price Rises 9%
ThredUp Wins a Record 1.82m Buyers but Forecasts a Holiday Revenue Dip
Primark Profit Falls 12% as Price Cuts Squeeze Its Margin to 10.2%
BHV Marais Enters Receivership in Paris After Its Shein Bet, 700 Jobs at Stake
US Clothing Tariffs: Why $1 of Duty Can Add $2.50 to the Price Tag
eBay Revenue Rises 14% as Secondhand Becomes a Monthly Habit for 47% of Shoppers
UK Budget Makes Amazon, Shein and Temu Collect VAT for Sellers Above £90,000
EU €2 Parcel Fee From 1 November: What It Means for Temu and AliExpress Orders
Shein Agrees to Pay $100m to Settle US FTC Probe Over Delivery Complaints
Can ChatGPT’s Virtual Try-On Tell You If Clothes Will Fit?
Quince Launches in the UK With £50 Cashmere. Here’s How to Test It
Louis Vuitton Speedy Tops Fashionphile Resale Ranking Again, Value Up 16.2%
LVMH Fashion Sales Fall 5% in the Third Quarter as Chinese Shoppers Pull Back
Physical Stores Are Carrying Fashion Growth While Online Goes Backwards — What the Numbers Hide, and Why Return Rates Are the Real Argument
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
The Brands That Ignored Resale for a Decade Are Now Trying to Enclose It — and Their Own Figures Explain Why They Cannot
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
Resale Authentication Has Become Infrastructure — It Proves an Item Is Genuine, and Tells You Nothing About Whether It Is Any Good
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 Bid for the Buildings and a Platform Measuring Throughput — Nobody in Modern Retail Is Paid to Judge Whether Clothes Are Any Good
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
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
When a Magazine Calls a Brand Luxury, Read the Page Instead
A Value Fashion Chain Has Quietly Closed Two Hundred and Forty-Six Stores Since the Pandemic — and the Real Lesson Is That Undifferentiated Scale Has Nowhere Left to Hide
Korean Independent Labels Are Reaching China Through One-Hour Livestreams Instead of Stores — And the Capital-Light Playbook Is a Structural Advantage Scale Cannot Copy
Fear of God Just Deleted Its CEO Role as Jerry Lorenzo Reasserts Control — And the Founder-Versus-Scale Bet Behind It Is the Real Story
A British Retailer Just Shut All Four of Its US Stores Two Years After Opening Them — And the Retreat Reveals Which Way of Reaching You Is Quietly Dying
Europe Just Put a 100-Billion-Euro Price Tag on Circular Fashion — And Three of Its Four Pillars Are Exactly What Faz Has Been Telling You to Buy
The OECD Just Warned an Energy Shock Will Raise Clothing Prices — But It Lands Hardest on the Exact Tier of Fashion You Should Already Be Leaving
Victoria’s Secret Just Won Its Boardroom Fight — But the Number Nobody in the Proxy Filing Mentions Reveals Where Intimates Is Really Going
A British Shirtmaker Just Doubled Its Profit While Its Lifestyle Sister Brand Nearly Stopped Making Money — And the Gap Reveals Why Focus Beats Sprawl
A Dozen Independent African Designers Just Got a Flagship Floor in Paris — And It’s the Honest Answer to Fashion’s Appropriation Problem
Two Sisters Spent Ten Years Building an Independent Brand in Antwerp — What They Revealed About the Cost Is the Real Story
Divorce Jewellery Is Fine Jewellery’s Fastest-Growing Category — And It Reveals the Smartest, Most Honest Way to Buy
A Viral Vintage Dealer Just Opened a Shared Storefront for Independent Sellers — And the Model Reveals Where Fashion Is Actually Going
Prada’s $995 Sandal and the $10 Original It Copied — What the Hundred-to-One Price Gap Really Reveals About Luxury
Zara’s Owner Just Posted Surging Sales — And the Numbers Quietly Confirm Fast Fashion’s Middle Is Collapsing
Victoria Beckham Just Opened Her First US Store — The Numbers Behind It Explain How Fashion Actually Makes Money
A Designer Showing in Antwerp This Week Just Explained, by Accident, Why Independent Fashion Is the Smart Money
How to Actually Buy Direct From an Independent Designer — The Seven-Step Framework That Dissolves the Last Advantage the Mass Market Has Left
Fashion's Biggest Talent Prizes Just Quietly Stopped Funding Runway Shows — And Started Funding Businesses Instead
How to Actually Evaluate a Watch Before Buying It — The Nine-Point Forensic Framework That Turns Latent Customer Leverage Into Actual Leverage
Swiss Watch Exports Just Fell 16.6% in a Single Month — And the Hard-Goods Version of the Luxury Crisis Is Now Visible
How to Actually Find Independent Designers Worth Buying From — The Seven-Step Discovery Framework the Mainstream Press Structurally Cannot Publish
Heritage Brands Are Now Reaching Into the Independent Designer Ecosystem to Save Themselves — The Henry Zankov Appointment to Diane von Furstenberg Is the Cleanest Signal Yet
How to Actually Buy Secondhand and Vintage Well — The Eight-Point Inspection Framework for the Channel Where Your Own Skill Is the Whole Edge
The EU Is About to Make Every Garment Legible — And the Mid-Tier Mass Market Cannot Survive the Lights Coming On