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24 Oct

Kering Looks to the Future in a Cold Climate

Kering Looks to the Future in a Cold Climate
LONDON — It was a difficult quarter, with double-digit revenue declines across all its major brands, an in key regions corresponding to Europe and North America, but Kering is undaunted, and planning for higher days ahead. Within the third quarter, Kering saw group revenue fall 13 percent at reported exchange rates and 9 percent on an underlying basis to 4.46 billion euros. The numbers were broadly consistent with analysts’ expectations, and got here amid a wider luxury slowdown and geopolitical upset. Sales at Gucci, Kering’s largest brand, which generates greater than 50 percent of group revenue, fell 14 percent on a reported basis and seven percent underlying to 2.22 billion euros.  At Yves Saint Laurent, a brand that’s roughly one-third of Gucci’s size, sales were...
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20 Oct

The Foggy Way forward for Farfetch

The Foggy Way forward for Farfetch
Farfetch started off with a quite simple proposition — and Wall Street loved it.  But while the e-commerce platform was once a darling and seen because the strongest access point for luxury online, the image has just turn into more complicated.  Years of acquisitions, recent initiatives and weaker-than-expected results have prompted investors to fall out of affection with Farfetch.  The stock all the time ran cold and warm, with investors scratching their heads over one deal — just like the acquisition of Off-White licensee Latest Guards Group — after which a number of months later rejoicing over market share gains or another advance. Recently, though, the trend has been steadily downward, with the corporate’s market capitalization sinking to roughly $620 million. That’s lower...
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7 Oct

How Women’s Health Brands Are Driving the Way forward

How Women’s Health Brands Are Driving the Way forward
On the Beauty & Wellness Forum, Wendy Liebmann, chief executive officer and chief shopper at WSL Strategic Retail, led a discussion on the long run of ladies’s health. Panelists included Kelly Fanning, general manager, United States pain, cardio and dermatology at Bayer Consumer Health; Michelle Jacobs, chief operating officer and cofounder of menopause solutions brand Womaness, and Dr. Fahimeh Sasan, chief innovation officer and founding physician at fertility clinic and platform Kindbody.  Throughout the conversation, panelists emphasized destigmatizing the conversation around women’s health by providing accessible education, using daring messaging and creating communities. For these brands, this looks like products featuring direct-use cases, period campaigns that feature blood, influencer campaigns, online discussion boards, democratizing access to fertility care and more. “If we’re...
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9 Sep

Grace Sinnott is crafting experimental beauty looks from the

Grace Sinnott is crafting experimental beauty looks from the
The Manchester-born make-up artist talks us through her journey, from gory film make-up to working with Vivienne Westwood and Rosalía The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from the world over who're redefining the best way we take into consideration beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to make-up prodigies transforming themselves of their bedrooms, these are the wonder influencers of tomorrow who embody every part Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. It was gore that Grace Sinnott was considering initially. When she first started off as a make-up artist she thought she would give attention to gory film computer graphics, but she in a short time found herself...
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