Footwear

While the market trend is toward contraction, department stores and malls are holding their own and evolving toward new formats.  

Portuguese footwear exports reached €843M and 36M pairs in H1 2024, rising 3.7% in value. APICCAPS reports global gains despite market challenges, with strong growth in Germany and concerns in the Netherlands.

One of Italy’s best known fashion labels, Valentino, said on Wednesday it has appointed Riccardo Bellini as its new chief executive.

​Manolo Blahnik has released its latest annual results (covering 2024) and while turnover and profits were down, this was partly due to a strategy change and heavy spend on new stores, as well as to the luxury slowdown.

A week after news of John Lewis’s even deeper dive into beauty, it’s upping its game in the key fashion category, adding 100 new brands to its stores as the battle between it and big-hitters Next and M&S intensifies.

The manufacture of iconic "made in the USA" cowboy boots is set to suffer from President Donald Trump's 30% tariffs on South African exports that came into force in August.

News broke on Thursday that Valentino CEO Jacopo Venturini has stepped down from the executive helm of the luxury fashion label.

An elegant new book celebrating the 10th anniversary of the jewellery brand Cadar provides timely recognition of its founder Michal Kadar’s unique talent and skill as a unique creator of emotive ornamentation.

​As it approaches its 20th anniversary in 2026, Copenhagen Fashion Week goes from strength to strength. Hugely influential for its pioneering sustainability focus, its latest outing also offered some strong collections.

​Dior has opened the House of Dior New York, a four-storey flagship boutique designed by architect Peter Marino and located at the intersection of 57th Street and Madison Avenue. 

​A renewed call to reinstate tourist tax-free (that is, VAT-free) shopping in the UK comes after data shows domestic shoppers are “deserting” UK stores and “flocking” to the EU to take advantage of… tax-free shopping.

Fendi's first boutique in Cancun is located in the La Isla complex and measures around 180 square metres, consolidating Mexico as a key market for the Italian brand.

Hugo Boss on Tuesday reported revenue edging up just 1% in Q2 against an “ongoing challenging market environment”. Boss Menswear was the standout while Womenswear and Hugo struggled.

Gucci-owner Kering is in talks with a member of the Qatari royal family for the sale of a building in Milan's top shopping avenue, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday.

European brands scramble to find ways to ease US tariff pain as labels including L'Oreal increasingly explore the decades-old 'First Sale' law.

Salvatore Ferragamo reported a 9.4% drop in H1 sales to €474 million ($545.1 million), hit by wholesale softness and weak Asia-Pacific demand. Losses continued, but Latin America showed double-digit growth.