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Robert Williams

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Writer at Freelance

Publisher of SouthFire Newspapers Group

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  • 6 days ago | businessoffashion.com | Robert Williams

    Valentino’s full-year revenues fell 2 percent excluding currency shifts to €1.31 billion ($1.42 billion), the Roman brand said Friday. Retail sales grew 5 percent in 2024. The company described its business as “fundamentally stable” in light of the tough market for luxury fashion.

  • 2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Robert Williams |Robert Williams

    Brands like Zara and Mango are opening boutiques in Algeria, one of the largest yet least developed fashion markets in North Africa, as the country tries to shake off its isolationist past.

  • 1 month ago | thespec.com | Robert Williams

    It all seems like a blur now. In a briefing on March 11, 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization director-general, declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. He called on countries to do more to contain the spread, asking them to “double down” and “be more aggressive.”Canada listened. Less than a week later, workers across the country hunkered down at home as the lockdowns and a series of sweeping pandemic measures began.

  • 2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Robert Williams

    Hermès responded Friday to the proliferation of copycat products fuelled by online “dupe” culture, which in recent months have included a lookalike of the French brand’s flagship Birkin sold by Walmart for $80. “It’s hard to say what to think about this because there’s a grey area. Of course I was mad. Because copying our I.P., copying our creativity is pretty much detestable—it’s stealing someone else’s work,” Dumas said.

  • 2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Robert Williams

    This week, Dior announced it would part ways with men’s artistic director Kim Jones. A masterful tailor and deft curator of men’s style, Jones reconnected Dior Homme with the brand’s founding codes — creating a regal fantasy filled with draped jackets, floral motifs and pearl embellishments — as well as a proposing utilitarian everyday luxuries like combat boots and bomber jackets.

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