Why the US-India tariff framework may accelerate fashion's shift away from China Trade agreements rarely capture the imagination of the fashion industry. They are typically technical, slow-moving and buried in policy language. But the latest tariff framework between the United States and India has the potential to reshape one of the most important parts of the fashion business - where clothes are actually made. Under the new outline, the US has agreed to lower tariffs on Indian goods to an...

How specialist Asian beauty chains are turning cultural demand into a competitive threat For years, Sephora and Ulta Beauty have operated with near-total control over the American beauty landscape. Their advantage was scale: national footprints, exclusive brand deals, and the ability to dictate which products became mainstream. But a new competitor is emerging - and it isn’t another conglomerate. It ’s a pastel pink specialty retailer from Canada. When Sukoshi opened its first Pacific...

Paris Men’s Fashion Week has never been short on spectacle, but this season’s shows revealed something more deliberate than provocation. Beneath the colour, the skirts, the layered tailoring and the celebrity front rows, a quieter recalibration is taking place, one that speaks less to shock value and more to how luxury menswear is repositioning itself in a fractured cultural moment. The question no longer seems to be what men can wear, but who fashion is prepared to dress, and at what cost....