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Luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga, and Alexander McQueen have fallen victim to a cyber attack, leading to the potential theft of millions of customer’s private details. The assault targeted Kering, the French corporation that owns these prestigious labels.…
British fashion label Alexander McQueen has opened a flagship store at Omotesando, Tokyo. Located in the shopping complex Oak Omotesando, the store occupies a 253sqm space and spans two stories. The first floor houses women’s clothes and accessories while the…
British fashion house Alexander McQueen — known for its unique tailoring and audacious designs — has soft-launched a virtual store on the Tmall Luxury Pavilion, Alibaba Group’s platform for luxury and premium brands. It will be the first online store in China…
International fashion magazine Vogue has opened its first wedding dress salon. Facing Aoyama Kotto-dori in Tokyo’s Omotesando district, the salon has hired specialist staff to offer tasteful suggestions not only with regard to dresses and accessories but also…
Paris Fashion Week Men’s was not lacking in head-turning street-style looks this year. Attendees brought their sartorial A-game to take in new fall ’19 collections from the hottest designers. A guest paired trendy Off-White socks with shiny silver Maison…
Kering sales growth significantly outpaced its rivals during the third quarter, up 27.6 per cent as reported and 27.5 per cent on a comparable basis, to €3.402 billion. In Kering-operated stores, Asia Pacific sales rose 33.3 per cent on a comparable basis,…
Two of Europe’s biggest luxury fashion brands are opening official stores in India next year, according to reports. French label Saint Laurent and British Alexander McQueen are set to enter India with respective debut standalone stores, sources said last…
Fashion giant Kering’s decision to focus the business on luxury appears to be paying off. In what chairman and CEO Francois-Henri Pinault termed “dazzling top-line and earnings performances” during the first half year, total revenue rose 33.9 per cent on a…
Alexander McQueen China has partnered with JD.com to launch a store on the e-commerce giant’s luxury platform Toplife. It will offer the full Alexander McQueen fashion ranges as well as accessories. While the UK luxury fashion brand already has 15 on-ground…
Alexander McQueen shows a world that is both classic and contemporary, familiar and subversive at its new retail store at Elements in Tsim sha Tsui. Creative director Sarah Burton partnered with David Collins Studio to design the store, which highlights nude…
Luxury brand group LVMH is thinking about taking its eyewear business in-house. This could be a further blow for Italian eyewear group Safilo, which lost the Armani licence in 2013 and those for the Kering Group labels (Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta,…
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