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Retail

Snap-Backed Gen Z Resale Platform Raises $4.5 Million

Galaxy raised $4.5 million to power its personalised secondhand marketplace, inviting influencers and independent boutiques to sell on the app.

Retail

Snap-Backed Gen Z Resale Platform Raises $4.5 Million

Galaxy raised $4.5 million to power its personalised secondhand marketplace, inviting influencers and independent boutiques to sell on the app.


Luxury

Inside the Activewear Brand Backed by Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra

Under new ownership, luxury skiwear brand Perfect Moment transitioned its focus from extreme sports to fashion-conscious mountain-goers. Now, it’s betting a tie-up with an A-list couple and growing its menswear and surf verticals will fuel a post-pandemic surge.

Luxury

Inside the Activewear Brand Backed by Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra

Under new ownership, luxury skiwear brand Perfect Moment transitioned its focus from extreme sports to fashion-conscious mountain-goers. Now, it’s betting a tie-up with an A-list couple and growing its menswear and surf verticals will fuel a post-pandemic surge.


Luxury

Ex-Asos Chief Nick Beighton to Lead MatchesFashion, Replacing Paolo De Cesare

Beighton is the fourth CEO to run the luxury e-tailer in less than five years as its private equity owners struggle to improve performance.

Luxury

Ex-Asos Chief Nick Beighton to Lead MatchesFashion, Replacing Paolo De Cesare

Beighton is the fourth CEO to run the luxury e-tailer in less than five years as its private equity owners struggle to improve performance.


Retail

American Eagle’s Hottest Business Isn’t Jeans — It’s Logistics

After acquiring two supply-chain start-ups last year, the teen retailer wants to build an ‘open source’ shipping and storage network it thinks can someday be a bigger business than selling clothes.

Retail

American Eagle’s Hottest Business Isn’t Jeans — It’s Logistics

After acquiring two supply-chain start-ups last year, the teen retailer wants to build an ‘open source’ shipping and storage network it thinks can someday be a bigger business than selling clothes.


Sustainability

The Start-Ups Aiming to Detox Dyeing

Turning dresses red and jeans blue is a dirty, resource-intensive process. A number of new technologies offer promising solutions for a lower-impact way forward.

Sustainability

The Start-Ups Aiming to Detox Dyeing

Turning dresses red and jeans blue is a dirty, resource-intensive process. A number of new technologies offer promising solutions for a lower-impact way forward.


Entrepreneurship

How to Fundraise in a Bear Market

Facing a possible recession, private investors are tightening their purse strings. This means fashion and beauty start-ups must preserve cash and undertake creative tactics to secure capital.

Entrepreneurship

How to Fundraise in a Bear Market

Facing a possible recession, private investors are tightening their purse strings. This means fashion and beauty start-ups must preserve cash and undertake creative tactics to secure capital.


Workplace & Talent

How Alo Yoga Plans to Pay Its Employees in Crypto

Alo Yoga, a yoga-wear and accessories brand, is allowing its corporate employees to convert part or all of their checks to crypto and will accept the currency on its e-commerce site, too.

Workplace & Talent

How Alo Yoga Plans to Pay Its Employees in Crypto

Alo Yoga, a yoga-wear and accessories brand, is allowing its corporate employees to convert part or all of their checks to crypto and will accept the currency on its e-commerce site, too.


Sports

How Athletes Went From Selling Merch to Building Fashion Brands

High-profile athletes used to make money by inking licensing deals with retailers that use their names on jerseys and shorts. Today, sports stars like Russell Westbrook and Megan Rapinoe are launching their own labels, with full financial and creative control.

Sports

How Athletes Went From Selling Merch to Building Fashion Brands

High-profile athletes used to make money by inking licensing deals with retailers that use their names on jerseys and shorts. Today, sports stars like Russell Westbrook and Megan Rapinoe are launching their own labels, with full financial and creative control.


Retail

How to Navigate the Return of Wholesale

After a hard pivot to e-commerce during the pandemic, many brands are back to working with retailers. This time, they say the terms have changed in their favour.

Retail

How to Navigate the Return of Wholesale

After a hard pivot to e-commerce during the pandemic, many brands are back to working with retailers. This time, they say the terms have changed in their favour.


Sustainability

Why LVMH Is Betting on Lab-Grown Diamonds

For years, luxury’s biggest jewellers have dismissed synthetic diamonds as inauthentic. But an investment by LVMH’s venture fund in lab-grown diamond company Lusix suggests this calculus may be changing alongside consumer interest in ethical and sustainable products.

Sustainability

Why LVMH Is Betting on Lab-Grown Diamonds

For years, luxury’s biggest jewellers have dismissed synthetic diamonds as inauthentic. But an investment by LVMH’s venture fund in lab-grown diamond company Lusix suggests this calculus may be changing alongside consumer interest in ethical and sustainable products.


Technology

Where Fashion-Tech Investors Are Putting Their Money

Capital is flowing into technologies that make fashion commerce more nimble, more sustainable and more engaging to shoppers — and, of course, the metaverse.

Technology

Where Fashion-Tech Investors Are Putting Their Money

Capital is flowing into technologies that make fashion commerce more nimble, more sustainable and more engaging to shoppers — and, of course, the metaverse.


Financial Markets

Fashion’s Top M&A Targets

The market may be cooling, but a number of in-demand brands remain of interest to financial backers. BoF identifies the top targets.

Financial Markets

Fashion’s Top M&A Targets

The market may be cooling, but a number of in-demand brands remain of interest to financial backers. BoF identifies the top targets.