Sainsbury’s has released its results for the 52 weeks to the beginning of March and while most of the activity in its latest year was about food, it also has a large fashion and general merchandise business that appears to be mainly strong, despite its Argos unit trailing earlier in the year. Tu Clothing Total…
By Reuters Published April 9, 2025 Clothing and accessories retailers across the United States are delaying orders and freezing hiring ahead of tariff hikes that take effect Wednesday on products imported from Vietnam and China. DR These businesses, much like Nike, opens new tab and Lululemon, opens new tab, face an impossible choice: offset the cost of tariffs…
I’m curious how much clothing is marked up over cost. Does it really have to do with quality, or can a popular or fancy brand mark up more than average? And what does the threat of tariffs mean? — Jane, Boston Back in 2012, a designer named Bruno Pieters, who had been the main guy…
Butter yellow has been applied to a wide spread of items lately: cocktail dresses, jeans, jackets, hair clips, handbags and stand mixers. It has been slathered onto the walls of restaurants and home kitchens, and has oozed onto red carpets and the stages of major pop-music tours. Like the dairy product the color is named…
On the Verge showcases emerging talent from the worlds of fashion, food, music, art and design. The British designer Harry Pontefract’s clothing often starts with a very specific obsession. Last year, for example, his fixation with vintage faux fruit led him on a six-month search for plastic grapes, which he incorporated into his latest collection…