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Gap Inc. chief executive and president Sonia Syngal will step down effective immediately, the company announced Monday. She was
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The cuts include jobs at Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, as the American retail giant scrambles to weather the crisis of Covid-19.
Marketshare is shrinking, discounts are deepening and the group’s once-powerful grip on the consumer has disintegrated. As a public company, its options are limited.
The Gap brand has long struggled to reclaim the glory of its 1990s heyday.
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.
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.
