Luxury houses, streetwear and the Asian designers shaping global style.
In a switch from business online, handbag reseller LuxLexicon has unveiled its first flagship store at The Centrepoint. Founder Florence Low describes her company as the largest purveyor of Hermes Birkins and Kellys outside Hermes stores in Singapore, and a…
Antoine Andrews, Nike Inc’s vice president of diversity and inclusion, has resigned just weeks after the announcement of broad changes to the company’s HR policies. Nike confirmed the departure, but declined to comment on the circumstances behind Andrews’…
British sports fashion retailer JD Sports has issued a vote of confidence in its fledgling Australian operation, revealing that it is expanding its local logistics capabilities to facilitate “anticipated future growth”. Delivering its financial results for…
British accessories brand Olivia Burton, together with Asian retail specialist Norbreeze Group, has launched a concept store in Ion Orchard. For the first time in Singapore, the brand’s fashion jewellery collection and personalisation services are being…
Korean cosmetics brand Hera Singapore will officially launch at Takashimaya Department Store on May 10. And the brand will also open a standalone boutique store within the second half of this year. Hera’s parent company Amorepacific considers Singapore a…
Kathmandu Holdings will take up the full oversubscription in a share purchase plan, raising $50 million to help fund its purchase of US footwear supplier Oboz Footwear. The Christchurch-based company on Wednesday said it accepted $2 million in…
Primark sales and profits are on the rise as the UK-headquartered fast-fashion retailer shrugged off a chilly northern winter. Parent Associated British Foods (ABF), says Primark achieved a 7 per cent increase in revenue for the first half year and a 4 per…
British womenswear label Alexachung has marked its Asian expansion with a series of Tokyo pop-ups, starting earlier this month. Alexachung hopes the pop-ups will build brand awareness and boost sales thanks to a “very loyal” Japanese customer base. “Our goal…
MSGM China has opened its second store, a boutique in SKP Beijing. The Italian fashion label’s 15th store, it offers menswear, womenswear and accessories. The 100sqm space features flexible iron display structures, geometric neon lighting and Carrara and…
Alibaba and JD.com may be embracing brick-and-mortar retailing in a move offline, but Southeast Asia’s fashion-focused Zalora still considers itself a pure-play online retailer and has no plan to change. In an interview, Zalora Group CEO Parker Gundersen, who…
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group’s fourth quarter saw e-commerce business soar in Mainland China. Retail sales value grew at the rate of 38 per cent year-on-year accompanied by a volume boost of 34 per cent. During the three months to the end of March, the…
Luxury Italian fashion brand Gucci is helping make cassette tapes cool again in a collaborative collection with the Waltz shop in Tokyo’s Nakameguro district. Special Waltz-inspired patches are featured on six products, including a Boston bag, shoulder bag…
Bensimon Japan has opened a concept store in Tokyo, the fourth international outlet for the French label. Launched with its two local partners, Itochu and Look, the unconventional store in the Daikanyama district covers about 100sqm on several floors and…
Sandy Friesen’s small and young handmade handbag company Welden generated nearly US$300,000 in gross merchandise volume during a two-day live-streaming event in China. On Alibaba’s C2C marketplace Taobao, the campaign was the New York brand’s first foray into…
Nike continues the Free RN’s “Free Expression” artist series with Shanghai-based Hong Kong artist Ton Mak, better known as Fabjacks. Following Korean artist Novo’s DIY-take on Free RN, Flabjacks opts for a more vibrant approach with a rainbow-like range of…
With dynamic markets in China and Hong Kong, Asia has driven L’Oreal first-quarter sales. Asia Pacific also shone among new markets for the French cosmetics company, where sales grew by 14.9 per cent overall. Chairman/CEO Jean-Paul Agon describes the return…
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