What’s the big question we want the bosses over at Kering to answer? Yes, that’s right: Just what kind of impact is the Alessandro Michele factor having on Gucci sales? The company has just reported its Q4 and full-year results and given that there was real Michele-driven product in the stores for Q4 (rather than…
New York Fashion Week bowed out with a bang as three of its biggest names (Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein) gave us their autumn/winter 2016 visions. And ‘bow out’ is perhaps the right phrase given that the announcements about close-to-season, insta-fashion and more we’ve had this week mean next NYFW could be really rather…
I’m turning into something of a Delpozo groupie. The pre-fall 16 collection designed by Josep Font for the label won me over and now AW16 has blown me away. OK, it’s crazily expensive (but also understandably so given the level of detail), and it’s not exactly practical. These are uncompromising clothes for women who don’t…
The Chinese luxury consumer is changing with a number of factors coming together to drive this, according to the Bain & Company’s 2015 China Luxury Market Study. Last year, Chinese consumers from the mainland continued to buy luxury products but they bought them abroad as currency issues in places like Japan and Europe made travel very…
The bad news continues for Prada but it does have some developments to crow about with its smaller Miu Miu brand continuing to power ahead. The Italian giant released its full-year results yesterday and they didn’t make happy reading. Sales rose an anaemic 1% to €3.55bn having risen only 1% in 2014 too. You have…
Bergdorf Goodman may not be able to offer runway label fashion instantly like the labels can for themselves but it’s doing everything it can to get in on the insta-fashion act. Moving into the get-there-quickly space previously occupied mainly by Moda Operandi, the US retail giant will be offering early access to the AW16 collections of…
I’m beginning to feel like a broken record. For those of you too old to remember broken records, when an old-style vinyl disc got scratched, the needle would get stuck and repeat the same bits again, and again, and agin…. Well that’s me this NYFW. The words I’m stuck on are “shearling coats,” “oversized parkas,”…
On the Grammys red carpet it wasn’t so much a case of lining up behind which celeb you wanted to win but which colour corner you felt drawn to. The red carpet channelled current colour trends with the clashing brights and degradé effects that we’re seeing on the current AW16 runways, as well as the intense…
Tommy Hilfiger is the latest luxury brand to move into the ‘show-it, want-it, buy-it’ space as of September with its autumn 16 collection. The brand’s New York Fashion Week show in September will be a multi-media broadcast runway production staged for a consumer and press audience, with all styles immediately available for purchase through retail,…
Christian Dior Couture took in €1.87bn last year. That was a 17.1% rise, which is pretty impressive in a world where luxury is supposed to be hurting. OK, exchange rate effects from the weak euro helped a lot. But even without that, revenue was up 7% and operating profits rose an even-better 20.6% to €240m.…
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