MILAN — Hong Kong was a sore spot for the Salvatore Ferragamo Group in the nine months, hurt by a 45 percent drop in retail sales in the region in the third quarter, but the performance in the period was lifted by other areas including Europe. “We were not anticipating what is happening in the […]
PriceWaiter in 2011 was founded by Stephen Culp and Andrew Scarborough as a solution for e-commerce retailers that were struggling with low conversion rates, shopping cart abandonment and minimum advertised pricing and comparison shopping. The cofounders have launched a marketplace where users can negotiate directly with online retailers, which PriceWaiter said makes the back-and-forth dance […]
LONDON — The Financial Times has a new editor, Roula Khalaf, who will succeed veteran newsman Lionel Barber. Khalaf is the first female editor in the paper’s 103-year-history. Khalaf has been the FT’s deputy editor since 2016, and since joining the financial newspaper in 1995, she has held a number of roles including foreign editor, where […]
Russell Westbrook, Opening Ceremony and Jordan Brand have launched their first collaboration collection at Opening Ceremony stores in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo and online. The six-piece collection, which is the first partnership between the three, and the retailer’s first project with an athlete, is comprised of an oversize T-shirt, hoodie and overcoat, track […]
The Very Warm, the outerwear brand from David Peyser Sportswear, has launched exclusively at Ssense its first collection under the direction of Laurence Chandler of Rochambeau and Studio Institute founder Nate Brown. Chandler, who has been named creative director of the brand, had been talking to the company about his Rochambeau brand. “The initial conversation […]
SHANGHAI — Alibaba wrapped its Singles’ Day sale with a haul of 268.4 billion renminbi, or $38.4 billion, easily outstripping last year’s gross merchandise value record of $30.7 billion. Largely held up as a testament of consumer power in China, the world’s largest shopping event, which falls every year on Nov. 11, has also increasingly […]
SHANGHAI — Some 910,000 people visited the second edition of China International Import Expo (CIIE), and $71.13 billion worth of deals, up 23 percent from last year, were signed during the six-day event, running from Nov. 5 through 10 in Shanghai. More than 3,000 top companies from more than 150 countries and regions participated in […]
Hearst Magazines’ workers are unionizing. Following in the footsteps of a number of other media organizations, editorial, video, design, photo, and social staff across 24 of New York-based Hearst’s digital and print brands today announced they have unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East. The brands include Elle, Elle Decor, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, […]
The 45th annual People’s Choice Awards held Sunday in Los Angeles is one of the first awards shows of the season, with fan-voted awards going to celebrities across music, film and television. The red carpet brought together a number of big names, including Gwen Stefani, who fittingly wore a custom Vera Wang bridal inspired gown […]
Psycho Bunny is turning its gaze to retail. The men’s brand with the slightly maniacal logo of rabbit with pink ears and its teeth hanging over a skull-and-crossbones, is opening four stores this fall in the U.S. Following a successful retail debut last October in Aventura, Fla., the New York-based label is opening full-price stores […]