Fashion · Collections
According to WWD, Korean platform W Concept has opened a two-week pop-up in Paris bringing together 600 items from 75 Korean brands, the final stop of an international tour that has already taken it through Londres, Berlin and New York.
Fashion · Partnership
The German womenswear brand is rolling out a billboard campaign in central Paris and partnering with the 48 Collagen café, after dressing 100 British taxis in September.
Business · Appointment
According to The Industry.fashion, the founder and chairman of the British footwear and accessories brand is considering new investment, a partnership or a change in shareholding structure as his retirement approaches.
Business · Acquisition
After seven and a half years at the helm of Condé Nast, Roger Lynch is taking charge of Mattel, where he has sat on the board since 2018. Anna Wintour is promoted to global content director of the publishing group.
Retail · Distribution · Brief
The Spanish footwear brand has reopened its Parisian store at 8, place de l'Opéra, whose façade and interior layout were entrusted to the Italian studio Piovenefabi.
Retail · Launch
Effective since 28 September 2026, the Olymp Insider scheme relies on three status tiers and Salesforce's Loyalty Cloud to strengthen the direct relationship with customers.
Business · Launch
The Swedish fintech is integrating a textile care and repair service into its app, developed with Save Your Wardrobe. An associated study reveals a significant gap between British consumers' interest in repair and their actual awareness of brands' offerings.
Business · Distribution
With no buyer deemed viable, Rakuten's French marketplace, heir to PriceMinister, will cease operations on 1 October. The CSE had issued a negative opinion on the bids examined, including that of Pixmania.
Retail · Strategy
The Paris commercial court opened insolvency proceedings against the André chain on 9 September. The century-old footwear retailer, reduced to 30 employees, did not survive a third receivership in five years.
Business · Partnership
For four years, the American jeweller and the Paris institution will conserve, study and digitise more than 10,000 pieces from the Jean Schlumberger collection, entrusted to the museum in 1994.
Fashion · Collections
The French designer miniaturised his most famous creation for Mattel, unveiled on Saturday during Paris Fashion Week. The designer also saw a retrospective in Toulouse that drew nearly 148,000 visitors.
Business · Partnership
Presented during Paris Design Week, the Studio Toison project, led by designer Julian Turgy, proposes going directly from fibre to non-woven, without a spinning step.
Business · Results
A presidential decree published Monday would transfer all of German retailer Metro's Russian assets to the Russian company UK Torg Rus, BFM Business reports, in a market that would account for nearly 9% of the group's revenue.
