Adwoa Beauty to Enter Liquidation
A Texas court ruled that the hair-care label’s bankruptcy filing be converted to Chapter 7.
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Sustainability
Explainer: Fashion’s New Tariff Threat
A US trade probe into forced labour could trigger new tariffs and import bans, forcing fashion brands to implement more robust supply-chain transparency.
Explainer: Fashion’s New Tariff Threat
A US trade probe into forced labour could trigger new tariffs and import bans, forcing fashion brands to implement more robust supply-chain transparency.
Global Markets
Worldview | Rio de Janeiro Stages Fashion Week Comeback
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Dubai malls, Mexican designers and China’s social commerce giant.
Worldview | Rio de Janeiro Stages Fashion Week Comeback
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Dubai malls, Mexican designers and China’s social commerce giant.
Sustainability
Textile Recyclers Are Back From the Brink. Now They Just Need Customers.
Europe’s textile-to-textile recycling sector is rebounding from a crisis and regaining momentum as new regulations drive investment. But to succeed in the long run, it needs more brands to buy in.
Textile Recyclers Are Back From the Brink. Now They Just Need Customers.
Europe’s textile-to-textile recycling sector is rebounding from a crisis and regaining momentum as new regulations drive investment. But to succeed in the long run, it needs more brands to buy in.
Global Markets
Worldview | How Lagos Is Driving Africa’s Circular Fashion Agenda
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Saudi Arabian shopping malls, Iran’s struggling garment factories and South Korea’s new streetwear media launch.
Worldview | How Lagos Is Driving Africa’s Circular Fashion Agenda
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Saudi Arabian shopping malls, Iran’s struggling garment factories and South Korea’s new streetwear media launch.
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Beauty
How War Is Exposing Beauty’s Packaging Problem
From soaring plastic costs to aluminium supply shocks, the US-Israel war with Iran is unraveling the beauty industry’s overreliance on plastic packaging and infrastructural gap for affordable and scalable climate-friendly solutions.
How War Is Exposing Beauty’s Packaging Problem
From soaring plastic costs to aluminium supply shocks, the US-Israel war with Iran is unraveling the beauty industry’s overreliance on plastic packaging and infrastructural gap for affordable and scalable climate-friendly solutions.
Sustainability
The Game of ‘Selling’ Sustainability
From H&M’s bid to draw shoppers in with its sustainable positioning, Shein’s new circularity study and a campaign showing athleisure can be made using clean energy, fashion is trying to figure out sustainability’s saleability.
The Game of ‘Selling’ Sustainability
From H&M’s bid to draw shoppers in with its sustainable positioning, Shein’s new circularity study and a campaign showing athleisure can be made using clean energy, fashion is trying to figure out sustainability’s saleability.
Global Markets
How the Middle East’s Fashion Industry Is Navigating War
As the conflict enters its second month, brands, retailers and business leaders across the region are leaning on crisis management and contingency plans amid an increasingly volatile security environment.
How the Middle East’s Fashion Industry Is Navigating War
As the conflict enters its second month, brands, retailers and business leaders across the region are leaning on crisis management and contingency plans amid an increasingly volatile security environment.
Sustainability
Exclusive: H&M Says Sustainability Is Good for Business. Can It Get Shoppers to Care?
H&M Group CEO Daniel Ervér spoke to The Business of Fashion about why the retail giant is continuing to push on climate action, persuade consumers to see it as more than a fast-fashion giant — and prove that reducing emissions can drive business performance.
Exclusive: H&M Says Sustainability Is Good for Business. Can It Get Shoppers to Care?
H&M Group CEO Daniel Ervér spoke to The Business of Fashion about why the retail giant is continuing to push on climate action, persuade consumers to see it as more than a fast-fashion giant — and prove that reducing emissions can drive business performance.
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Global Markets
Asia Feels Full Force of War-Fuelled Energy Crisis
Asia braces for deepening shortages as Iran war disrupts oil flows, sending everyday goods prices sharply higher across global supply chains.
Asia Feels Full Force of War-Fuelled Energy Crisis
Asia braces for deepening shortages as Iran war disrupts oil flows, sending everyday goods prices sharply higher across global supply chains.
Global Markets
Worldview | Tokyo Fashion Week Doubles Down on Asia
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Eid al-Fitr spending across the Gulf, Moscow Fashion Week and Indian factories squeezed by the Middle East war fuel shortage.
Worldview | Tokyo Fashion Week Doubles Down on Asia
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Eid al-Fitr spending across the Gulf, Moscow Fashion Week and Indian factories squeezed by the Middle East war fuel shortage.
Sustainability
The Impact of War on Fashion’s Supply Chain
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
The Impact of War on Fashion’s Supply Chain
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
Global Markets
Worldview | Middle East War Adds to Strain on Asia’s Apparel Exporters
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Japanese department stores, Brazil’s Lojas Renner and Middle East luxury sales.
Worldview | Middle East War Adds to Strain on Asia’s Apparel Exporters
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Japanese department stores, Brazil’s Lojas Renner and Middle East luxury sales.
The News in Brief
Coty’s Perfume Business Takes Another Knock With David Beckham Fragrance Lawsuit
Beauty brand Coty is facing a lawsuit from DB Ventures, the company behind former football star David Beckham’s eponymous fragrance, for what the lawsuit describes as flagrant material breaches of the license agreement, court documents show.
Estée Lauder Sales Rise 2%, Job Cuts to Expand
Double-digit growth in the conglomerate’s perfume division helped offset a lack of growth in its other units as the company continues its years-long turnaround strategy.
Premium Body Care Brand Uni Appoints New Global CMO
Heather Fisher, former chief marketing officer of Fenty Beauty, has joined the Australian body care brand.
Zegna Revenues Rise 7.4%
The Italian luxury group’s first-quarter performance surpassed market expectations powered by solid growth in direct-to-consumer sales in the US.
Inventory Clean-Up Helps Puma Beat First-Quarter Expectations
The German sportswear maker also announced it had appointed former Hugo Boss CEO Mark Langer as its chief financial officer, effective Friday.
Oil Prices Soar to Wartime High with US and Iran Stuck in Standoff
Brent oil surged to more than $126 a barrel on Thursday, before paring gains to $121.40 as traders factor in an even longer closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Reliance Retail Acquires Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ Hair Care Brand Anomaly
The company will leverage its omnichannel network to scale the label, citing India as a priority market.