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How fashion week works: the schedule, the seats, the runway order
Who sets the calendar, who sits on the front row, and who decides which look opens the show.
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Fashion News covers ownership, manufacturing and pricing across beauty and fashion retail: which group owns a brand, who makes the formula, how exclusivity deals operate, and why an identical product costs more in one country. Best used by readers who want the commercial picture behind a purchase.
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Department store future: The return of the department store, explained
The anchors of the mall are not coming back as they were. They are coming back as something else.
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How to become a fashion designer — Fashion school without fashion school: the routes that actually work
Degrees are one door into design. Patternmaking, trade skills, and digital tools are three others — and each has a different price tag.
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Shein's US revenue fell 14.3 percent — the tariff bill arrived at ultra-fast fashion
Financials disclosed ahead of Shein's planned Hong Kong listing showed US net revenue down 14.3 percent to about $2 billion in the first quarter of 2026 and a $99 million net loss, per Reuters — the clearest evidence yet that import duties changed the cheap-clothes math.
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Hermès grew 6 percent in the first half — the anatomy of a price that never discounts
Hermès reported €8.2 billion of first-half 2026 revenue on July 29, up 6 percent at constant exchange rates with an operating margin near 41 percent, and the house's no-discount model is the lesson inside those numbers.
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Kering is growing again — so why is Gucci's division still losing money?
Kering reported €3.65 billion of second-quarter revenue on July 28, 2026, its return to organic growth, yet fashion and leather goods still ran a recurring operating loss — and that tension explains the discounts and allocations luxury shoppers actually see.