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This week, President Trump’s tariff on Switzerland went into effect, landing levies of 39 percent on every watch the country exports to the US. For some Swiss watchmakers, the threat is existential.
The sector is already under pressure from a stronger franc and falling global demand.
Trump’s “America First” trade agenda is designed to encourage domestic manufacturing. But ambitions to move more apparel production to the US have been stymied for years by limited capacity and high costs.
Haley Crawford is Marketing Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers the marketing and public relations industries.
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.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
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.
