Bondholders Approve Saks Global’s Five-Year Business Plan
Saks is moving towards exiting bankruptcy and tapped an additional $300 million of its Chapter 11 financing package.
innovation
Retail
Is the Luxury Watch Market Turning a Corner?
While demand still lags behind supply, some observers believe Swiss timepieces will see renewed interest in the face of tech fatigue and disillusionment with luxury fashion.
Is the Luxury Watch Market Turning a Corner?
While demand still lags behind supply, some observers believe Swiss timepieces will see renewed interest in the face of tech fatigue and disillusionment with luxury fashion.
Beauty
The Multi-Step Beauty Routine Moves Beyond the Face
It’s not just facial skincare that gets 10 steps or more these days as influencers drive demand for entire scalp, hair, body and hand care routines.
The Multi-Step Beauty Routine Moves Beyond the Face
It’s not just facial skincare that gets 10 steps or more these days as influencers drive demand for entire scalp, hair, body and hand care routines.
Technology
Fashion’s New Era of Product Discovery
AI-powered curation across content and search is helping shoppers overwhelmed by choice to find the items they want, with benefits for brands and retailers, according to the BoF-McKinsey State of Fashion 2025.
Fashion’s New Era of Product Discovery
AI-powered curation across content and search is helping shoppers overwhelmed by choice to find the items they want, with benefits for brands and retailers, according to the BoF-McKinsey State of Fashion 2025.
Sustainability
Textile Recycling: Big Opportunity or Risky Business?
French engineering giant Technip Energies builds oil refineries and liquefied natural gas platforms. Now, it’s aiming to establish a $2 billion business regenerating polyester.
Textile Recycling: Big Opportunity or Risky Business?
French engineering giant Technip Energies builds oil refineries and liquefied natural gas platforms. Now, it’s aiming to establish a $2 billion business regenerating polyester.
Partner Content
Creating a Dialogue With Consumers Through Connected Products
Michele Casucci, founder and GM of Certilogo, gathered global executives from the fashion and luxury sectors onsite at BoF VOICES 2024 to discuss how digital product passport technology can support brands in building a dialogue with consumers.
Creating a Dialogue With Consumers Through Connected Products
Michele Casucci, founder and GM of Certilogo, gathered global executives from the fashion and luxury sectors onsite at BoF VOICES 2024 to discuss how digital product passport technology can support brands in building a dialogue with consumers.
Workplace & Talent
What Fashion’s Creative Talent Needs to Know Today
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion creatives this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative landscape.
What Fashion’s Creative Talent Needs to Know Today
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion creatives this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative landscape.
Beauty
How Beauty Devices Finally Broke Through
For years, at-home cosmetic devices based on in-office treatments have been slow to sell. Then the pandemic made them one of beauty’s fastest growing categories.
How Beauty Devices Finally Broke Through
For years, at-home cosmetic devices based on in-office treatments have been slow to sell. Then the pandemic made them one of beauty’s fastest growing categories.
Retail
Fashion’s Big Opportunity in Reselling the Unsellable
Software platforms that help fashion brands turn slightly damaged returned goods into new sales are taking off as more companies look to transform online returns from a persistent dilemma into a source for profitable growth.
Fashion’s Big Opportunity in Reselling the Unsellable
Software platforms that help fashion brands turn slightly damaged returned goods into new sales are taking off as more companies look to transform online returns from a persistent dilemma into a source for profitable growth.
Workplace & Talent
BoF Careers Community Event: Incorporating Generative AI into the Fashion Workplace
In Paris, leaders in talent acquisition from Chanel, Christian Dior Couture, Coty, Kering, Louis Vuitton, Rimowa and Saint Laurent among many others, attended an exclusive presentation and networking event at Hôtel Plaza Athénée.
BoF Careers Community Event: Incorporating Generative AI into the Fashion Workplace
In Paris, leaders in talent acquisition from Chanel, Christian Dior Couture, Coty, Kering, Louis Vuitton, Rimowa and Saint Laurent among many others, attended an exclusive presentation and networking event at Hôtel Plaza Athénée.
Direct-to-Consumer
Why Some Fashion Brands Are Embracing DIY E-Commerce
With rising competition to acquire and retain customers online, digitally native start-ups are determining how to strike a balance between developing their own e-commerce features in-house and partnering with external software providers.
Why Some Fashion Brands Are Embracing DIY E-Commerce
With rising competition to acquire and retain customers online, digitally native start-ups are determining how to strike a balance between developing their own e-commerce features in-house and partnering with external software providers.
Retail
Victoria’s Secret Relaunches Activewear Line VSX
The lingerie giant is set to reenter the category it exited in recent years with a new performance-driven collection.
Victoria’s Secret Relaunches Activewear Line VSX
The lingerie giant is set to reenter the category it exited in recent years with a new performance-driven collection.
Partner Content
How to Apply AI-Powered Personalisation to Omnichannel Retail
BoF shares insights on the application of AI into omnichannel strategies to meet increasing consumer expectations that retail experiences be ‘composed’ to match their preferences, sourced from BigCommerce’s recent thought leadership.
How to Apply AI-Powered Personalisation to Omnichannel Retail
BoF shares insights on the application of AI into omnichannel strategies to meet increasing consumer expectations that retail experiences be ‘composed’ to match their preferences, sourced from BigCommerce’s recent thought leadership.
The News in Brief
Luxury Stocks Face Most Bearish Sentiment in Years, UBS Says
War in the Middle East, the luxury industry’s fastest-growing market, threatens to delay a long-expected rebound in demand.
Trump Signs Order to Combat Fraudulent ‘Made in America’ Labels, White House Says
The executive order directs the FTC chairman to prioritise enforcement of existing laws against sellers and manufacturers who falsely claim products are made in America.
Lanvin Deputy CEO Siddhartha Shukla Exits Brand
Owner Lanvin Group said it is ‘fully committed’ to the French label’s development under creative director Peter Copping, with CEO Andy Lew in charge of management.
Ulta Beauty Forecasts Annual Profit Below Estimates
Shares declined in after-hours trading as the beauty retailer expressed a cautious outlook for 2026.
Exclusive: Brita Invests in Shower Filter Firm Hello Klean
The German water filtration firm has acquired a minority stake in Hello Klean, which sells shower heads it claims mitigate the effects of hard water.
AII Launches Industry-First Tool Standardising Measurement of Carbon Emissions
The new tool published by the climate-focused nonprofit aims to create a standardised benchmark across textile facilities to accelerate fashion’s efforts to decarbonise.
Marco De Vincenzo Exits Etro
The creative director’s departure after four years was a decision of ‘mutual agreement’ according to the Italian label.