Sarah Kent

This week, Italy’s Competition Authority closed a probe into whether Dior misled consumers about working conditions at its suppliers without finding any wrongdoing. But a new case linking Valentino to poor labour practices suggests this is a problem that won’t go away easily.

Following a management buyout, creative director Georgiana Huddart and new CEO Krishna Nikhil lay out their plans to double the crinkly one-size-fits-all British swimwear label’s annual sales to £60 million over the next two years.

The investigation into whether Dior misled consumers about working conditions at its suppliers concluded without finding any wrongdoing, after Dior made a number of commitments to tighten up its controls and communication.

Over the last month, a flurry of companies with backers from H&M to Inditex have advanced plans to build their first industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling plants, advancing a technology that is often held up as a holy-grail-like solution to many of fashion’s environmental ills.

Efforts to map the footwear industry’s carbon footprint have lagged behind those in fashion. A new study aims to start addressing that.

In a challenging market, a generation of brands that helped pioneer 'sustainable fashion' are shifting their sales pitch, letting design, not values, do the talking.

A wave of TikTok videos has fuelled a narrative that luxury bags and their counterfeits are made in the same factories. BoF’s Sarah Kent joins The Debrief to unpack what this says about consumer trust, supply chain secrecy and the growing backlash against brand mythology.

The FHCM, Comité Colbert and UNIFAB have quietly circulated a position paper calling on policymakers to take ‘immediate action’ to stop an ‘unprecedented widespread disinformation campaign’ about the origin of luxury goods.