Luxury Goods

Some warehouse workers have been preparing for the seasonal rush of orders and deliveries by learning to hand-tie ribbons and to carefully hand-write notes as luxury brands seek to reproduce the high-end store experience for items shipped…

More U.S. companies are drawing investors’ attention to earnings figures that strip away the negative impact of foreign-currency rates as the strong dollar continues to pinch quarterly results.Reporting results on a constant-currency basis…

Back when Axel Dumas was in charge of retail operations for Hermèsin France, starting in 2005, one of his tasks was to pay a visit to all the company’s stores. “My goal was never to get the address ,” says Dumas, now CEO of the…

Luxury company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton LVMUY -4.37% SE reported higher sales and profit for the first half of the year as free-spending shoppers in Europe…

Europe’s luxury brands have shrugged off the pandemic and inflation but fickle tastes in fashion still have the power to trip them up. Shares in Gucci’s owner Kering fell 5% in European morning trading…

Brands including Forever 21, DKNY and Estée Lauder have joined in the first Metaverse Fashion Week, which began Thursday and runs through Sunday in the virtual world called Decentraland.Digital-only fashion…

Howard Smith, chief commercial officer at Ralph Lauren Corp., has resigned and will step down from his role immediately,…

Chanel SA’s small Classic Flap bag was always a luxury item, but after three price hikes last year, it is selling for $8,200. That is up from the $5,200 it cost in 2019.The French fashion house has been raising prices at a faster pace than…

Fur is increasingly falling out of favor at luxury fashion houses.On Monday, Dolce & Gabbana, the Milan-based fashion house, said it was discontinuing the use of fur in its products this year. Moncler…

When Chanel SA started marketing a new cosmetics range using red camellias this month, a Chinese competitor took offense and accused the French luxury brand of appropriating the Asian flower.Sun Laichun, the founder of Shanghai-based…