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Ralph Lauren Gets $82m Back in Tariff Refunds as Its Average Price Rises 9%
Coach Sales Jump 16% as Handbag Prices Rise and Kate Spade Falls 10%
ThredUp Wins a Record 1.82m Buyers but Forecasts a Holiday Revenue Dip
Coperni, the Paris Label Behind the Swipe Bag, Is Liquidated After 13 Years
Lee Jeans Sold to Authentic in Up-to-$1bn Deal, Now Made Under Four Licences
Primark Profit Falls 12% as Price Cuts Squeeze Its Margin to 10.2%
Bangladesh Forms a New Garment Wage Board After Protests Halt 529 Factories
Joseph Owner Explores Sale as Modella Capital Weighs a Bid; Sales at £45m
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
EU Green Claims Ban: What ‘Eco-Friendly’ Means on Clothing Labels Now
What Happens to a Fashion Brand After a Luxury Group Sells It?
Jimmy Choo Sales Rise 11.5% as Michael Kors Cuts Its Discount Days by Half
The RealReal Posts a Record $642m Quarter as LuisaViaRoma Goes to Auction
Hugo Boss Reverses Its Pakistan Accord Exit, Rejoining the Factory Safety Pact
eBay Revenue Rises 14% as Secondhand Becomes a Monthly Habit for 47% of Shoppers
Troubadour, the London Bag Brand, Raises £3.2m to Grow in the US and Europe
UK Budget Makes Amazon, Shein and Temu Collect VAT for Sellers Above £90,000
Etsy Returns to Buyer Growth as Revenue Rises 10.9% — and Ads Take a Bigger Cut
EU €2 Parcel Fee From 1 November: What It Means for Temu and AliExpress Orders
Marc Jacobs Signs First Licence Since LVMH Sale, Handing China to I.T Group
Burberry Turns Regent Street Flagship Into Burberry House, With Trench Repairs
Shein Agrees to Pay $100m to Settle US FTC Probe Over Delivery Complaints
Why Is Gucci Struggling? Kering’s Third-Quarter Numbers Explained
Vinted and Rivals Agree Four Steps to Block Looted Goods After French Riots
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
Alexander McQueen Parts With Seán McGirr After Three Years as Kering Exits Mount
Moschino Owner Aeffe Seeks Wage Support for 389 Workers as €115m Sale Nears
A Mid-Market Retailer Is Compounding While Luxury Stalls — the Counter-Evidence This Argument Has to Answer Honestly
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 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
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
French Favourite or Made in France — What a Nationality on the Label Actually Promises, and Five Checks Before You Pay the Heritage Premium
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