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What role will buy-now, pay-later programs play in inflation?

Buy-now, pay-later might not be a new concept (hello, credit cards and mortgages). However, programs like Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay, and Zip have modernized what could be likened to layaway in the old days with installment plans that are interest-free if you pay within a certain timeframe. This sounds almost too good to be true, but these...

13 hours ago

Business

Movado Group almost doubles Q1 profit

US watchmaker Movado Group almost doubled its profit in the first quarter of the year as its sales increased by 21.2 percent. In the three months to April 30, the group’s net income widened to 18.5 million dollars from 9.4 million dollars a year earlier. The group, whose portfolio of brands includes Movado, MVMT, Concord, and Ebel, reported...

18 hours ago

Business |BACKGROUND Featured

With platforms booming, what happens to wholesale?

When online retailers like Zalando, for example, want to triple their platform business in a few years, this will have serious implications for the traditional wholesale business and the brands involved. All the more so because Zalando is just one example of several. What does it mean when more and more online retailers develop their traditional...

19 hours ago

Fashion

Women’s Resort 2023 keys collections

Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers a first look at the latest Women’s Resort collections arriving for 2023. The first shows of the 2023 Resort season showed a contrast of styles and design reference. In difficult times, some designers opted to take inspiration from the past and reminiscences from golden eras and positive memories. For...

20 hours ago

Business

Gucci opens permanent Roblox residency, Gucci Town

Gucci has revealed a permanent experience through metaverse platform Roblox, digitising various elements of the luxury brand’s offerings for the digital world’s users. Gucci Town, the virtual piazza, hopes to connect with Gucci fans using the platform, allowing them to enter a series of buildings inspired by the brand’s real-world offerings....

20 hours ago

Retail

Kohl’s reveals investment and expansion plans for retail stores

US department retailer Kohl’s has revealed extensive plans to expand and boost its retail footprint over the next four years, with strategies revolving around new store openings, remodels and omnichannel capabilities. As part of its investment, Kohl’s said it will be adding new omnichannel features to many of its locations, bringing convenient...

21 hours ago

Retail |In Pictures

Kate Spade opens Cabana pop-up in London

Kate Spade New York has opened a new seasonal concept pop-up in London’s Covent Garden to celebrate “the spirit of escape that one feels at the beginning of summer”. The Kate Spade Cabana, located at 42-56 Seven Dials, London, features a green and white cabana showcasing “everything and anything striped, palm printed and beach-ready,” complete...

21 hours ago

Fashion

Net-a-Porter to sell lab-grown diamonds with Kimai

Traceable fine jewellery brand Kimai is to become the first lab-grown diamond brand to be stocked on Net-a-Porter. Kimai, worn by the Duchess of Sussex and actress Emma Watson, creates high-quality jewellery with low impacts on people and the planet using lab diamonds grown using solar energy. Lab-grown diamonds are chemically and physically...

21 hours ago

CultureFeatured

V&A to exhibit first Coco Chanel retrospective

Coco Chanel is coming to London. The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in South Kensington is to host the UK’s first Chanel retrospective, from the early days when Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel opened her millinery boutique in Paris in 1910, to establishing the foundations of the House and showing her final collection in 1971, the year Chanel died. The...

21 hours ago

Fashion

Samuel Ross unveils his first watch for Hublot

British fashion designer Samuel Ross, who has been a Hublot ambassador since 2020, after winning the first Hublot Design Prize in 2019, has unveiled his first wristwatch collaboration with the brand by reimaging its iconic Big Bang timepiece for its 40th anniversary. The limited-edition Big Bang Tourbillon Samuel Ross watch utilises Ross’...

22 hours ago

Fashion |In Pictures Featured

Fashion Revolution showcases textile garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Not-for-profit campaign group Fashion Revolution has unveiled a garden highlighting natural dyes and plant fibres at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show by garden designer Lottie Delamain. Supported by Project Giving Back, the ‘A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution’ highlights how plants have played a fundamental role in fashion, as dyes, fibres,...

1 day ago

Fashion

Helsinki Fashion Week 2022 to focus on the future of phygitals

For its eighth edition, Helsinki Fashion Week is preparing to return with a particular focus on the connection, and disconnection, between the physical and the digital world. Set to be held from August 5 to 7 in the Finnish capital, the event will explore the concept of ‘phygitals’, the meshing of both physical and digital products that has been...

1 day ago