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BoF Insights’ Brand Pulse tracking tool reveals how the industry’s top-performing contemporary and accessible luxury brands cultivated loyal online communities through sharp digital engagement strategies.
Emerging labels like Kallmeyer, TWP and Studio Nicholson are capturing high-spending shoppers with premium quality at accessible prices, forcing the industry to rethink what luxury means in 2025.
A direct-to-consumer strategy and cost discipline have helped the British brand grow without leaning on price hikes.
Cathaleen Chen is Retail Editor at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and drives BoF’s coverage of the retail and direct-to-consumer sectors.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
The e-commerce giant is betting that a ‘culture of AI’ can solve the mysteries of physical retail and help power its new pricey namesake luxury label.
The number of companies suing for tariff refunds has spiked recently, with the latest group including companies such as Prada and Adidas, in a sign importers aren’t confident in the plan to create a claims process.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
The designer and podcaster joins Imran Amed to reflect on the emotional power of clothes, what Vivienne Westwood taught her about rebellion and how Fashion Neurosis has unlocked a new chapter in her creative life.
