Italy's luxury fashion groups, which for decades jealously guarded their independence, have started teaming up to protect their supply chains and the Italian roots of smaller companies, showing a new spirit of collaboration.
British luxury fashion brand Burberry reported an 18% rise in first-quarter comparable store sales on Friday, meeting market expectations thanks to a continued rebound in China.
Levi Strauss & Co cut its annual profit forecast on Thursday, in a sign that higher costs were weighing on the denim clothing maker's margins as it struggles with falling sales at its wholesale channels in North America.
Australian retailers are in for a sombre period this fiscal year as high interest rates squeeze household budgets, especially for discretionary spending, Citigroup said on Thursday, with expected further rate hikes likely to dent confidence even more.
Shein is threading the world’s trickiest geopolitical needle. The fast fashion phenom, now worth $66 billion, is a formidable rival to Inditex's Zara and H&M thanks to its marketing prowess and efficient Chinese supply chains – and despite the U.S.-China trade war. But rising American pressure is forcing it to tweak its business model right as it tries to list there.