Copenhagen Fashion Week cheat sheet: Autumn/Winter 2025
Copenhagen Fashion Week’s (CPHFW) evolution continues. Some of its big names may be skipping this season — former tentpole Ganni shows no appetite to move back from Paris, while Saks…
How fashion and beauty are preparing for triple-threat tariffs
On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed executive orders imposing tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada, the US’s largest trade partners, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The tariffs…
Estée Lauder Goes All In With OpenAI’s ChatGPT
These days, fashion and beauty businesses are not only acting more like technology companies — spearheading in-house incubators, rolling integrations and experimental skunkworks labs — but restructuring the core of…
The roller coaster of scaling a next-gen materials startup
Circulose’s story underlines the magnitude of the challenges facing those trying to reduce fashion’s impact on the environment at scale. Formerly known as Renewcell, it was the next-gen materials startup…
Swarovski relaunches its fragrance division with Coty
Beauty conglomerate Coty and crystal jewellery brand Swarovski have signed a long-term agreement to license, develop, produce and distribute the jewellery house’s fragrance division. “We are delighted to announce our…
Aptos Powers Up Retail Operations, Expands With The Buckle and WSS
Aptos, the unified commerce solution provider, has released a host of announcements timed for the National Retail Federation Big Show in New York this week, including deals with The Buckle…
Dark times, bright ambitions: Sustainability leaders on finding the energy to keep going
The world watched as US voters went to the polls on Tuesday, and the outcome is not what most people in the sustainability sphere was hoping for. A second Trump…
Looking thinner, living longer: What dominated the year in beauty
2024 was a dynamic year for beauty. M&A activity slowed, while product innovation was put on the back-burner. The wellness and fragrance categories reached new heights, while Ozempic (used off-label)…
Dsquared2 Taps ESW to Propel Global Direct-to-consumer Expansion
Dsquared2 is teaming with ESW, the e-commerce company, to help with its direct-to-consumer global expansion plans. In piloting the initiative, the companies said through the partnership, “ESW enabled Dsquared2 to…
How will AI change beauty careers?
Welcome to Beauty Run by Robots, a Vogue Business mini-series exploring the role and effects artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the beauty industry. Job risks, role changes and sector…
