Pandora A/S, which sells more pieces of jewellery than any other company in the world, picked its first woman as top leader, an adjustment to its male-dominated C-suite, which for long has been out-of-whack with the customer base. Berta de Pablos-Barbier, the Copenhagen-based company’s current chief marketing officer, will take over as chief executive officer...
Twelve years ago, when he was first starting out, Mossi Traoré managed somehow to stage a fashion show in Père-Lachaise cemetery. Absent an encore of that feat—a highly impressive one, given the red tape involved—the designer instead chose the blank canvas of an empty space on the Rue Commines. But he kept the inspiration, revisiting...
Coty Inc. is carrying out a strategic review of its mass color cosmetics business, as well as its operations in Brazil. The strategic review will focus on Coty’s $1.2 billion revenue mass color cosmetics business, including brands such as CoverGirl, Rimmel, Sally Hansen and Max Factor, and its $400 million revenue Brazil business, composed of...
Published September 30, 2025 Antler has had a busy product launch programme in recent periods and it’s not easing up just yet with the company unveiling its new Discovery Collection, “marking a confident move into outdoor travel for the British travel brand”. Antler What we’re talking about here is luggage that’s all about practicality. The...
On Friday, Oct. 3, The Business of Fashion will unveil 100 new additions to The BoF 500, our definitive index of people shaping the global fashion industry. To mark the occasion, we sat down with three members of The BoF 500 community to discuss how they are responding to the tumultuous state of fashion and...
Spring found Ellen Hodakova Larsson on fine footing: the 2024 LVMH Prize winner introduced a new category this season—shoes. In keeping with the brand ethos, they were made using discarded leather. The slightly bulbous masculine toe cap was juxtaposed with a curvy, sturdy, wooden Louis heel. This was but one of many contrasts at play...
Twelve years ago, before he carved out his place in the Paris fashion ecosystem, Mossi Traoré staged a fashion show at Père Lachaise cemetery. This time round, Paris City Hall declined his request to show there, but he was unperturbed, determined to celebrate what he sees as the poetry of the famous graveyard, channeling it...
The grandiosity of the formula Anthony Vaccarello has developed for Saint Laurent was in full effect on Monday night. The scale of the presentation spanned everything from the set that spelled out YSL in thousands of white hydrangeas (visible only from above, via passing drones or UAPs) to the linebacker shoulders of the black leather jackets...
At first, you couldn’t tell it from ground level, but the banks of white hydrangeas we were all admiring—while the Eiffel Tower was busy doing its twinkling thing somewhere to our left—were actually laid out to spell YSL. (Drone footage revealed this on our phones, while we were simultaneously spectating on the arrivals of Hailey...
NIGHT OF STARS: Budget cuts? What budget cuts? Kering may be on a cost-cutting drive under new chief executive officer Luca de Meo, but you wouldn’t know it from the bombastic show Saint Laurent staged on Monday night. The executive, attending his first show at Paris Fashion Week since his appointment earlier this month, could...