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French luxury fashion brand CELINE has opened a new concept pop-up store in Shanghai at thePlaza 66 Mall. The store which has been entirely designed by Creative Director, Hedi Slimane, features women’s footwear, handbags and other leather accessories. There…
The new Celine store design unveiled in New York City is destined for China and Japan in the early stages of a global rollout. The white and grey dominated, minimalist design illustrated here in official photographs released by the luxury fashion brand, was…
The world’s largest luxury retailer LVMH shrugged off broader market pessimism overnight reporting record revenue of €46.8 billion last year, up 10 per cent over 2017. Excluding the closure of the unprofitable Hong Kong airport duty-free business in December…
After Hedi Slimane premiered Celine menswear via a co-ed catwalk show on September 28, the brand has announced that it will join the Paris menswear calendar in January 2019. Celine is currently negotiating a show date with the Fédération de la Haute Couture…
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,…
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton boosted revenues by 10 per cent to €33.1 billion in the first nine months of this year. Organic sales grew 11 per cent compared to the same period last year and by 13 per cent after excluding the impact of the closed DFS…
Céline is no more ‘Céline’. The French luxury house has lost its acute accent on the ‘e’ in its original name, rebranding as the simpler ‘Celine’. The new logo comes with a teaser shot of a look from the Paris label’s upcoming collection, which has been…
Paris fashion maison Céline has announced the opening of its first standalone Australian boutique in Melbourne. While it is the third official store for Céline Australia, the new Melbourne location will be the first localized store to bow outside the walls of…
Asia’s pre-owned luxury fashion market is continuing to grow, with shoes and t-shirts gaining ground, according to multichannel retailer Reebonz. Although bags continued to dominate, with an average of 77 per cent of total transactions in 2016 and 2017, both…
Celine creative director Phoebe Philo has told her team she is leaving the French luxury leather brand after its autumn presentation. There were reports she could join her former chief executive Marco Gobbetti at Burberry when chief creative officer…
Céline, the only LVMH-owned fashion label without its own e-commerce business, will start offering online sales from a new website next week, two sources close to the matter said. The French brand joins a growing line of luxury goods players belatedly pushing…
French maison Céline has opened its second Australian store in Sydney. Located on level four of Sydney’s Westfield Shopping Centre, the 186-square-metre store is designed with clean lines and pared-back simplicity, hallmarks of the brand’s creative director,…
LVMH sales surged 15 per cent in the latest quarter to €9.88 billion (US$10.477 billion). That was nearly €400 million more than analysts had been expecting, with the result driven across all of the luxury group’s business units. Fashion and leather goods,…
French luxury fashion house Celine Korea has opened a store in Seoul’s fashionable Cheongdam district. In a double-storey building with a perforated brick facade, the shop has an interior furnished with bespoke ware designed by Danish artist Fos (Thomas…
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,…
A “dire” Hong Kong market has damaged Burberry sales for the latest quarter. Retail revenue remained unchanged at £423 million, but like-for-like sales fell 3 per cent. “Whilst sales declined across all three regions (Asia Pacific, EMEIA and the Americas), a…
