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Skims to venture into live entertainment for the holiday season

Kim Kardashian is to host a shoppable holiday livestream event on her own TikTok channel for her solutions-oriented lifestyle and apparel brand Skims for the holiday season. The move will see Kardashian, co-founder and chief creative officer of Skims, teaming up with OBB Media, the next-gen studio behind ‘A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina...

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Robyn Lynch reimagines Guinness Storehouse uniforms

London-based Irish menswear designer Robyn Lynch has redesigned the uniforms for the Guinness Storehouse attraction in Dublin, which tells the story of one of Ireland’s most loved brands, Guinness. The brand-new uniform celebrates the attraction's 25th anniversary, drawing inspiration from traditional workwear, constructed from denim and...

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Fashion Trust Arabia names 2025 prize winners in Qatar

Fashion Trust Arabia (FTA), the non-profit organisation supporting emerging design talent from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), awarded the winners of its seventh annual FTA Prize at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha, celebrating designers across the region in ready-to-wear, evening wear, accessories and jewellery. Moroccan designer...

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How pop-ups are shaping Latin America: creative districts, new audiences and experiential luxury

Buenos Aires – In Latin America, the pop-up phenomenon has established itself as a cultural driver capable of transforming neighbourhoods, rewriting luxury strategies and redefining how brands engage with their audiences. Far from being mere marketing exercises, these ephemeral spaces function as territories where commerce, identity and...

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France: one in five online clothing purchases is from ultra-fast fashion

During Fashion Reboot 2025, Gildas Minvielle, Director of the Economic Observatory at the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), delivered his annual report. Below are the primary insights regarding the shifts in the French fashion market from 2024 to 2025. Total turnover for the apparel and textiles sector in France fell by 1.3 percent between...

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Snapchat launches festive AR retail experience

Social media platform Snapchat, which has more than 900 million monthly active users, has unveiled a festive retail experience in augmented reality (AR), designed to bring holiday shopping to life through immersive and interactive digital boutiques. The inaugural Snapchat Winter Village launches in collaboration with luxury fashion brand Boss,...

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RG Barry Brands to acquire slipper licenses for Clarks and Timberland

Footwear and accessories firm RG Barry Brands (RGB) is set to acquire the assets of Green Market Services Co. Inc. (GMS), including the licensed slipper divisions for Clarks, Timberland, and their existing private label businesses. For RGB, the takeover of the licenses aids in wider efforts to position the company to meet high-growth lifestyle...

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Cashmere brand Soft Goat opens first international store

Swedish luxury cashmere brand Soft Goat is expanding into new markets with its first-ever international store in Oslo, Norway, and strengthening its UK presence, adding Browns and Harrods to its list of stockists. Soft Goat’s first international store marks the brand’s second store, and first outside of Sweden, in Oslo, Norway, and features a...

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Savills bolsters EMEA retail advisory capabilities

International real estate advisor Savills has appointed David Close as director of EMEA retail tenant representation as it seeks to strengthen its global retail advisory capabilities. Close, who has more than 20 years of experience advising global brands across European markets, will join the company this month. He was most recently with CBRE’s...

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Puma opens largest European flagship on Oxford Street

Sportswear giant Puma has opened what it said is its largest-ever European flagship store on London’s Oxford Street. The 24,000 square feet site is also the first flagship store in the region, situated to give customers the “chance to connect with more people than ever before”. Within the store, the brand offers a selection of its...

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Moncler is returning to the Winter Olympics with Team Brazil

Italian luxury fashion brand Moncler is returning to the Winter Olympics as the official sponsor of the Brazil Olympic Committee and technical sponsor of the Brazilian Snow Sports Federation for the upcoming Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, to be held February 6 to 22. In a statement, Moncler said that the move was a “homecoming” for the brand,...

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Hugo Boss defends supervisory chair after Frasers Group pulls backing

The chairman of the supervisory board at Hugo Boss has lost the backing of the fashion group’s largest shareholder, Frasers Group, intensifying tensions at the top of the German luxury apparel company. In a mandatory announcement published late Friday, Frasers Group said it no longer supports Stephan Sturm in his role as supervisory board chair....