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Retail

Data reveals Brits are unknowingly spending 3.2 billion pounds on fake designer goods

When Amazon announced it was launching an internal Counterfeit Crime Unit in July, it sent a message to those sellers proliferating fake goods. If the world’s largest online retailer is aiming for zero counterfeit and inferior quality products on its website, there is an equal zero tolerance policy towards those who sell and manufacture them....

28 Aug 2020

Business

Kering posts worst quarterly sales on record

The Asia rebound for luxury goods demand didn’t buy LVMH, which saw a loss of 68 percent in revenue in the second quarter. It also didn’t boost Kering’s sales, which posted a loss of 43.7 percent to 2.175 billion dollars compared to the same period last year. Kering said consolidated revenue of 5.38 billion in H1 was down 30.1 percent. on a...

29 Jul 2020

Retail

Stores on London’s Sloane Street reopen their doors

Following the UK government’s decision to ease Covid-19 lockdown measures, luxury fashion boutiques on London’s Sloane Street were able to join the list of non-essential businesses that reopened this week. Brands such as Hermès, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton and Fendi have worked with property manager and landlord Cadogan to equip stores with safety...

16 Jun 2020

Fashion

Lyst Index: Off-White, Balenciaga and Nike named world’s hottest brands

Off-White has retained its title as the hottest fashion brand on the planet for the third quarter in a row, with luxury Spanish label Balenciaga moving one spot up in the rankings to second place and US sportswear giant Nike leaping nine spots to third place. That’s according to the latest Index by fashion search platform Lyst which analysed the...

29 Apr 2020

Business

COVID-19 impact on luxury: Kering estimates revenue decline

Luxury brands are adjusting their quarterly and annual outlooks as the coronavirus continues to ravish the fashion industry across all sectors. French luxury group Kering stated it expects a 15 percent comparable decline in its first quarter compared to 2019. Currently the Group is observing encouraging signs in Mainland China, where the decline...

24 Mar 2020

Fashion

Ten AW20/21 womenswear trends to bet on

The catwalk shows of the autumn-winter 2020/21 season ended Tuesday evening with abreathtaking Louis Vuitton show. Marked by an underlying worried mood linked to the coronavirus epidemic, Fashion Week nevertheless Delivered with a spate of new trends and brilliant highlights. Here is a list of FashionUnited’s top ten autumn-winter 2020/21...

9 Mar 2020

Fashion

Fall/Winter 2020-21 Paris fashion week overview

Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers a first look at the event highlights of Paris Fashion Week. Despite challenging conditions and some cancelled shows, Paris Fashion Week still provided attendees with a spectacle worthy of a major fashion capital. As the industry continues to tackle issues around the topics of the environment and diversity,...

6 Mar 2020

Fashion BACKGROUND

Balenciaga returns to haute couture: what can we expect?

52 years after the closure of the original Balenciaga couture ateliers, Balenciaga announces the revival of haute couture. In other words: Demna Gvasalia will take responsibility for the new couture line. For the occasion, Balenciaga has a new couture workshop set up based on the old Balenciaga workshop on 10 Avenue Georges V in Paris. History...

28 Jan 2020

Fashion

Balenciaga rejoins Paris haute couture

Balenciaga said Monday that it intends to enter the elite ranks of Paris haute couture -- more than half a century after the founder of the storied fashion house staged his last couture show. Despite being called "the king of couture," the Spanish-born designer Cristobal Balenciaga spent years feuding with the French Federation of Haute Couture,...

20 Jan 2020

Retail

Balenciaga expands further in Canada with first-ever freestanding store

Balenciaga is proving its growing popularity with a new freestanding store in Canada. The luxury label has opened its new flagship store at Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre, according to Fashion Network. The new 3,326-square-foot space officially opened its doors to customers on Nov. 19. The overall environment of the store has an industrial...

27 Nov 2019

People

Former Balenciaga artistic director Thimister dies aged 57

Dutch fashion designer Josephus Thimister, a former artistic director at Balenciaga, has died at the age of 57, the French fashion federation said on Wednesday. "It is with sadness that the Federation de la Haute Couture et de la Mode has learned of the passing away of Josephus Thimister, whose avant-garde style, elegance and skills in cutting...

14 Nov 2019

Fashion

The highlights and lowlights of Paris Fashion Week SS20

The Spring Summer 2020 Paris catwalk season has come to a full stop. It began last Monday with Mame Kurogouchi and ended with Louis Vuitton 8 days later on Tuesday evening. A key takeaway from the Paris shows sees brands making outward commitments to sustainability as the echoes of climate change loudly reveberate through the insular walls of...

2 Oct 2019