Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published April 25, 2025 As tensions between the U.S. and China persist, NGOs warn that mounting cost pressures from brands could jeopardize hard-won progress in protecting the rights of textile workers. The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaka on April 24, 2013 – Shutterstock The Clean Clothes Campaign…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published April 22, 2025 Nothing seems to slow down Bulgari’s chief executive, Jean-Christophe Babin, who has just assumed leadership of the Watches division at LVMH. Under his direction, the Roman house inaugurated on April 16 the world’s largest jewelry manufacturing facility in Valenza, located in the Piedmont region of northern…
By Bloomberg Published April 17, 2025 Vietnam furniture exporter Paul Yang is in a 90-day race. The vice president of a factory that makes indoor wood furnishings for the likes of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and Crate & Barrel Holdings Inc. is being urged by American customers to ship “anything that’s ready” to them in the window…
Fashion platform Lyst has announced that it will be acquired by Japan’s ZOZO, “transforming the future of fashion discovery through AI and technology”. Lyst It said they have a “shared vision to transform [the] online fashion shopping experience for shoppers and brands” and that their “complementary footprints and tech capabilities” will be able to “unlock…
When President Trump first pushed tariffs on China in 2018, Apple began moving more production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India. But with Mr. Trump’s return to the White House, that strategy may have backfired for the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that the United…
Les Deux, the Copenhagen-based menswear brand, has released its 2024 results and they show the 13th consecutive year of growth. Co-founders Andreas von der Heide and Kristoffer Haapanen – Les Deux Revenue jumped in double digits, despite the challenging market backdrop that saw many companies large and small across all price points struggling to deliver…
Translated by Roberta HERRERA Published March 18, 2025 In 2024, Inditex expanded its presence with new store openings across 47 markets, reinforcing its dominance in global fashion retail. But where is the company focusing its expansion strategy, and what does its commercial trajectory look like for 2025? Closing its latest fiscal year on January 31,…
In one week, an entire country will come to a standstill for a monumental collision of sports and national pride. Five of Japan’s favorite sons will return to their native country when the Chicago Cubs face the Los Angeles Dodgers in a pair of regular-season games March 18-19 at the Tokyo Dome. It is sure…
We asked 19 photographers to revisit their most enduring images of the coronavirus pandemic, five years after the virus became a global threat. Their photographs transport us to that bewildering period in an uncanny sort of time travel. The journalists who captured these scenes were not just covering the Covid-19 story but living through it….