Gucci, Versace, Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Loewe, Dior, Jil Sander, Carven and Mugler have kicked off a recent spherical of inventive director musical chairs amid the posh slowdown. Drapers examines whether or not inventive modifications are sufficient to show round their fortunes.
Boohoo Group is being restructured and rebranded as Debenhams Group in a bid to streamline and leverage its provide chain capabilities. Nevertheless, consultants query whether or not this can be sufficient to reverse its fortunes.
Freemans CEO Ann Steer explains how the etail group is re-engaging its prospects – particularly its 40-plus feminine demographic.
Drapers Aware Style Summit and Awards 2025 passed off in London on 12 March, bringing collectively greater than 300 of the business’s change makers to share insights into their ground-breaking work, challenges and options. Within the night, we celebrated their triumphs on the awards ceremony.
Frequent Goal founder and CEO Tamsin Lejeune was named Change Maker of the 12 months. She tells Drapers what drove her to create the sustainable style neighborhood, and the challenges in making certain an moral style provide chain.
As US excessive road retailer Abercrombie & Fitch goals to double its UK retailer rely, we communicate with EMEA managing director Scott Clarke-Bryan about its technique to put its preppy previous behind it.
Style shoppers more and more search and store on social media. Drapers finds out how manufacturers and retailers together with Marks & Spencer, FatFace and By no means Absolutely Dressed are utilizing their social channels to create neighborhood and drive gross sales.
The beginning of a brand new monetary 12 months marks a rise in wage-related prices for style retailers. Drapers asks retailers and types how they’re absorbing the elevated monetary burden of staffing in 2025.
Impartial childrenswear retailers and types are feeling the pressure of elevated employer prices that come into impact this month and competitors from the second-hand market. Drapers finds out how they’re preventing again within the rising childrenswear market.
Dubai is a profitable marketplace for British manufacturers. Learn the way retailers akin to Fitflop, Fred Perry, Temperley London, Orlebar Brown and Hackett London proprietor AWWG have launched into this Center Jap Metropolis of Gold.
The autumn/winter 25 season wrapped with Milan and Paris style weeks – and as a lot drama behind the scenes as on the catwalks. We convey you the incoming developments to know.
And, in a season of musical chairs on the high of the posh business, main patrons from Harvey Nichols, Mytheresa, Web-A-Porter, Ssense and Finish Clothes replicate on their stand-out moments and designs from the autumn/winter 25 catwalks of New York, London, Milan and Paris
Martine Wernemar, chief product and sustainability officer of Pop, previously Polarn o Pyret, tells us concerning the childrenswear model’s ambitions to advertise its pre-loved product.
PLUS The chancellor’s Spring Assertion, Topshop/Topman’s relaunch, redundancies, Subsequent exceeds £1bn income, Go Outside physique cameras, Uniqlo UK growth, Nike gross sales, Fenwick redundancies on the playing cards and all the most recent individuals strikes.
