Malique Morris
Direct-to-Consumer Brands Correspondent at Business of Fashion (BOF)
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1 week ago |
businessoffashion.com | Marc Bain |Malique Morris
Until last week, getting products from China to the US as quickly as possible was top priority for some clients of Shift Fashion Group, a studio that helps brands with product development and manufacturing. That changed when tariffs as high as 145 percent kicked in last week. “They’re starting to put it on a boat and gamble if the tariffs are going to lower in the next little while,” said Joe Ng, Shift Fashion Group’s founder and chief executive.
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1 week ago |
businessoffashion.com | Brian Baskin |Sheena Butler Young |Malique Morris |Marc Bain
The author has shared a Podcast.You will need to accept and consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies by our third-party partners (including: YouTube, Instagram or Twitter), in order to view embedded content in this article and others you may visit in future. Subscribe to the BoF Podcast here. In early April, President Donald Trump announced an unprecedented wave of tariffs, imposing duties as high as 145 percent on imports from China.
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1 week ago |
businessoffashion.com | Malique Morris
When US President Donald Trump announced an onslaught of retaliatory tariffs earlier this month, it sent the fashion industry into a tailspin. But for Bayard Winthrop, founder and chief executive of 14-year-old apparel basics maker American Giant, which produces its selection of tees, hoodies and sweatpants across a range of factories in the US including its own facility in North Carolina, it was a moment worth waiting for.
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1 week ago |
businessoffashion.com | Malique Morris
Mytheresa on Friday announced it received regulatory approval from the European Commission to acquire Yoox Net-a-Porter. The deal, which was first announced last October, is set to close on April 23 where the luxury e-tailers will officially form a new company called LuxExperience. Mytheresa also announced several executive changes for the new company.
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3 weeks ago |
businessoffashion.com | Malique Morris
Digitally native menswear start-up True Classic announced on Thursday it received a strategic investment from 1686 Partners, a private equity firm run by David Wertheimer, the son of Chanel co-owner Gérard Wertheimer, in a deal that values the company at $850 million. The milestone marks True Classic’s first outside investment, six years on from its 2019 launch, and comes at a time when only the buzziest fashion start-ups are able to secure growth capital.
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