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Frasers Group to make shopping centre investments - report
Ever-acquisitive Frasers Group is back in the news. This time its focus is on buying shopping centres rather than its appetite for individual retail brands, reportedly lining up to buy two urban centres for £100m.
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Klarna unveils Paris Hilton as its global face
Klarna has unveiled Paris Hilton as its new global face with an upcoming campaign featuring the “Y2K icon” that’s been created in collaboration with Hilton’s next-gen media company, 11:11 Media.
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China's luxury market shrank 10% in 2022 -Bain
China's luxury market contracted 10% in 2022 on the year, snapping a five-year streak of high growth, as Beijing's zero-COVID policy and a slowing economy hit spending, Bain & Company said in a report on Tuesday.
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UK online sales weak in January, footwear is best performer in fashion
Online retail has endured a couple of difficult years post-pandemic and January’s figures that have just come out show no signs of a change in the trend.
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Me+Em opens at Battersea Power Station
Me+Em is the latest fashion name to open a store in the prestigious Battersea Power Station mall that opened last autumn.
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Hush names Coach's Melissa Dick as new creative chief
Womenswear and lifestyle brand Hush has named Melissa Dick as its new Chief Creative Officer. She joins from Tapestry’s Coach brand, where she spent five years and was VP Global Head of Creative Strategy & Studio.
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Fashion clearance sales boost January UK retail, but consumers stay cautious
January sales reports on Tuesday were far from buoyant, although the fashion sector continued to see growth, presumably boosted by easy comparisons, high inflation and clearance sales.
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Max Mara to stage next cruise show in Stockholm
Max Mara is to stage its next cruise show this summer in Stockholm, the latest location for the brand’s peripatetic journey with its resort collections.
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Calvin Klein taps Troye Sivan for Pride 2023 campaign
U.S. fashion brand Calvin Klein announced this week a new Pride 2023 collection and campaign starring Australian pop singer Troye Sivan, as well as Nathan McGuire and Manahou Mackay.
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Rhude returns to Los Angeles for its fall 2023 collection
Rhuigi Villasenor, founder of Rhude's brand, and also creative director of the Swiss house Bally, presented last Friday, his brand's next fall/winter collection in Los Angeles -- a leathery and streetwear atmosphere.
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Hermes, NFT creator spar over 'MetaBirkins' in trademark trial
Hermes International SCA urged a U.S. jury on Monday to find that a creator of non-fungible tokens violated its trademark for Birkin bags, while lawyers for the "MetaBirkins" maker countered that the images were art.
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Barbour forced to raise prices
Upscale outdoor fashion brand Barbour said that despite continuing to enjoy “buoyant” sales it has been forced to raise prices as production costs escalate and the slowdown in consumer spending starts to bite.
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Star fashion editor and GFF president Hilary Alexander dies
Hilary Alexander, one of the best known fashion editors in the UK and honorary president of the Graduate Fashion Foundation (GFF), died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, her 77th birthday.
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Men's fashion: the ten trends for autumn-winter 2023/24
The men's collections for next winter seen in Florence, Milan and Paris confirm the return to formality, but revisited and inventive, with an elongated and relaxed silhouette, playing with volumes and textures.
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Burberry reveals Daniel Lee's "first creative expression" for label
The Burberry show at London Fashion Week is set to be the hottest ticket in town as the industry gets to see what new creative director Daniel Lee has up his sleeve. But first it's released a taster campaign.
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Kering embarks on huge commercial development opposite Louis Vuitton near Paris’s place Vendôme
After buying extensive premises, the French group is challenging LVMH with the planned opening of a 2,000 square-metre-plus Gucci flagship in Paris, on the corner of rue de Castiglione and rue Saint-Honoré.
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