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Category: Fashion News
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Roundup: Executive Moves & Brand Leadership, Looking Make Fresh Start, and more.
Executive Moves & Brand Leadership Changes this week: A.P.C., the French denim and ready-to-wear label majority-owned by L Catterton since 2023, has appointed its first; and SMCP has appointed Linda Li as President and CEO for North…
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Roundup: Apparel Sourcing, Chaos confusion Strait Hormuz, and more.
Apparel Sourcing, Tariffs & Supply Chain Disruption this week: Geopolitical instability in the Strait of Hormuz has halted commercial shipping for three days, creating a legal and; and The 2025 US tariff regime, later ruled unlawful…
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Roundup: Photography’s Hidden Layers, the real hustle behind event shoots, and more.
Photography Gear, Techniques, and History this week: A Stockholm-based event photographer details the operational reality of high-stakes editorial and corporate event; and Funleader has released an updated Black Edition of its Contax G35…
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Roundup: Luxury Sector Performance & Strategy, Shaken Slowdown Luxury Retailers, and more.
Luxury Sector Performance & Strategy this week: Luxury retailers are retreating from a failed expansion into secondary U.S.
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Roundup: Architectural Design and Building, Peterson Rich Office designs, and more.
Architectural Design and Building Projects this week: Brooklyn architecture firm Peterson Rich Office has completed the design of the Condé Nast Galleries at The; and Parametricism, the architectural style championed by Patrik Schumacher…
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AI, Virtual Try-On & Digital Fashion, ASOS Redesigning online fashion speed AI, and more.
AI, Virtual Try-On & Digital Fashion Tools this week: ASOS is deploying Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack across its value chain to compress operational timelines and; and AWS has published a generative AI playbook for retail, consolidating…
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Textile Recycling & Circular Fashion, REWIND PET Process Validated, and more.
Textile Recycling & Circular Fashion this week: A consortium of Axens, Jeplan, and Ifpen has validated the REWIND PET chemical recycling process for textiles at a; and The circular fashion ecosystem is consolidating around long-term…
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Digital Product Passports & RFID, SML s InfuseRFID wins 2026 SEAL award, and more.
Digital Product Passports & RFID Compliance this week: SML Group’s InfuseRFID technology, which embeds durable RFID tags into garments before wet processing, has won a; and The EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandate, enacted via the…
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Global Apparel Sourcing and Trade, Apparel brands’ responses 2025, and more.
Global Apparel Sourcing and Trade Dynamics this week: A 2026 report from the Business and Human Rights Centre documents how apparel brands’ operational responses to the; and India’s organized value fashion retail sector, led by chains…
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Fashion Retail Operations and Strategy, Saks Global Is Setting, and more.
Fashion Retail Operations and Strategy this week: Saks Global has agreed to establish a litigation trust with a $20 million initial fund as part of its Chapter 11; and April 2026 saw significant executive churn across fashion and…