“It’s not just about the creative directors”: Inside LVMH’s fashion reset

‘It’s not just about the creative directors’: Inside LVMH’s fashion reset

The LVMH third-quarter earnings call pointed to a return to growth — led by strategy over creative changes, according to company leaders. “It’s not only about when the new creative directors arrive in stores,” said LVMH CFO Cécile Cabanis on the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. “We shouldn’t only look at creative renewal. There…

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Gigi Hadid walks the runway during the 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Duggal Greenhouse on October 15, 2024 in Brooklyn, New York.

How to Watch the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2.0 is back for another installment of blinged-out lingerie, showstopping angel wings, world-famous models, and girl-power anthems. Last year, the annual runway event—which initially ran from 1995 to 2018 before its cancellation in 2019—reopened the Pink Carpet with a re-tooled production, emphasizing inclusive casting and an all-female musical lineup. In…

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Giorgio Armani’s fashion heritage and cultural heritage preservation

Giorgio Armani’s fashion heritage and cultural heritage preservation

The first part of this post reflected on what we can learn about managing fashion legacies from Giorgio Armani’s choices shortly before his death. It explored how the Spring/Summer 2026 Armani fashion show indicated Mr. Armani’s control of his fashion heritage alongside of and beyond the Armani brand’s intellectual property rights in the fashion he created. In…

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Happiness is not found in fast fashion—reducing consumption can improve body image and well-being

Happiness is not found in fast fashion—reducing consumption can improve body image and well-being

Credit: Min An from Pexels According to a doctoral dissertation at the University of Vaasa, appealing to personal well-being is a more effective way to reduce clothing consumption than invoking environmental concerns. Essi Vesterinen’s research in marketing reveals that extending the lifespan of clothes is linked to better subjective well-being and a more positive body…

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