PARIS – Pharrell Williams is reuniting with his longtime collaborator Nigo for his fall menswear collection for Louis Vuitton, due to be unveiled in Paris on Tuesday evening. Vuitton’s creative director of menswear had been dropping hints about the collaboration on his social media accounts in recent days, and on Tuesday morning, the brand confirmed … Read more
AROUND THE WORLD: After stops in Seoul, Mumbai and New York City, Dior’s annual pre-fall collection is landing this year in Japan, WWD has learned exclusively. The French fashion house said Friday it will present the women’s collection designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri on April 15 in the garden of Tō-ji Temple in Kyoto. Founded … Read more
What should be the top of LVMH’s to-do list in a slowing luxury sector? Tackling so-called “greedflation,” explaining its recent rash of management changes, and fixing Dior, where the women’s business is “under pressure.” So says HSBC in a new report on LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which is due to report fourth-quarter sales in … Read more
PARIS — Will GenAI replace fashion designers? The debate has heated up since French contemporary brand The Kooples partnered with French start-up Imki last year on a 100 percent AI-generated capsule collection, cementing machine learning’s growing influence on design. As high street and e-commerce players embrace the powerful technology, luxury brands remain cautious about allowing … Read more
PARIS — Louis Vuitton is betting on a dose of Y2K nostalgia to perk up luxury consumers on New Year’s Day, when the reedition of its seminal collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will land in stores in tandem with a campaign fronted by Zendaya. Murakami and Pietro Beccari, chairman and chief executive officer of … Read more
PARIS — Marking its fifth acquisition this year, global marketing and communications group The Independents said Friday it has added Lucien Pagès to its collective of leading agencies. The umbrella entity, founded in 2017 through the merger of Asia-based events organizer K2 and public relations agency Karla Otto, has acquired Lucien Pagès Communication, a PR … Read more
PARIS – Continuing its expansion into hospitality and experiences, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has invested in Les Domaines de Fontenille, the French boutique hotel group co-founded by a former fashion executive. The French luxury conglomerate has made a minority investment in the company alongside Anaïs Ventures, the investment fund led by Julien Firmenich, a … Read more
PARIS – Paris celebrated the reopening of the Notre-Dame cathedral with an elaborate ceremony welcoming heads of state from around the globe. LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton chair and chief executive officer Bernard Arnault and Kering president and chief executive officer Francois-Henri Pinault attended the ceremony with French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, … Read more
While LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton‘s Bernard Arnault remains fashion’s richest billionaire by far, Inditex founder Amancio Ortega is closing the gap. “The dynamics among the richest are an impressively precise allegory for the polarization the fashion industry has been going through for years,” management consultant Achim Berg writes in a new report analyzing Forbes’ … Read more
PARIS — After being hit by a scandal over its subcontractors in Italy earlier this year, Dior is bolstering its in-house production arm. The French luxury house revealed Wednesday the creation of a new industrial department, tasked with strengthening its overall production capacity over the long term and ensuring the continuity of its knowhow. “It … Read more
