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The Milanese group, which also owns Miu Miu and Church’s, leveraged a partnership between Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons to generate record sales. A Thursday presentation gave investors a first peek at Prada’s future plans under new leadership.
Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada are stepping down as the group’s co-CEOs, passing the reins to former Luxottica chief Andrea Guerra and hiring a new leader for their flagship Prada brand.
Inside fashion’s most idiosyncratic, influential duo and the challenge of balancing creative complexity with a big brand’s need for clarity.
Robert Williams is Luxury Editor at The Business of Fashion. He is based in Paris and drives BoF’s coverage of the dynamic luxury fashion sector.
The London-based showroom-turned-brand incubator, which also owns Martine Rose, is being sold to Italy’s Andrea Ciccoli. Founder Stefano Martinetto breaks down the move for BoF in this week’s High Margin luxury newsletter.
Andrea Ciccoli’s Progetto 11, parent of Italian e-commerce firm The Level Group, is taking over the cash-strapped distributor that owns Coperni and Martine Rose.
New CEO Béatrice Goasglas’s experience in client relations and the US market will be put to the test at LVMH’s biggest watch brand TAG Heuer. Plus, a sit-down with two Richemont veterans Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO Jérôme Lambert and A. Lange & Söhne CEO Wilhelm Schmid.
From online conversation to pricing to early store traffic data, BoF analyses how Kering’s biggest brand is adjusting its strategy, and whether it is working.
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.
