Kering’s eyewear business has announced a partnership with Chloé. Kering Eyewear will design, produce, and distribute eyewear for Chloé (Richemont), taking over from its previous partner Marchon Group.

French luxury goods giant is not asking to renegotiate its $16.2-billion acquisition of U.S. jewelry chain Tiffany & Co after deliberating whether to do so, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Criticism is brewing in the UK media over big foreign firms, including Chanel, accessing state-backed UK loans. But the company said it would be repaid within a year and also that it hasn't used the furlough scheme. 

Influencer marketing will fade in importance in Europe over the next decade and UGC will become much more important as user reviews and images help to boost conversion rates, a new study shows.

Online sales helped to salvage some good news out of the gloom during May with BDO’s Retail Sales Tracker for the month showing a 129.5% e-sales uplift year-on-year.

With rumors mounting that Bernard Arnault may be attempting to renegotiate a lower deal price for LVMH’s acquisition of Tiffany, the luxury group said Thursday it will not buy any shares in the jeweler on the market.

The ‘Exclusive Live Shopping’ video service links up individual customers at their homes with shop assistants at the department store’s boulevard Haussmann branch; 120 brands are participating in the initiative.

The LVMH CEO is exploring ways to reopen negotiations on the French luxury goods giant's $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany & Co, as U.S. social unrest and the coronavirus pandemic weigh on the retail sector.

Kering, one of the largest luxury groups on the planet, has made financial commitment to fight racism, with contributions to the NAACP and to Campaign Zero – following eight days of protests in multiple American cities.

Shopping malls giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has made “strong progress” with its mall reopenings globally with 65 of 90 now open. And indications are that footfall and trade is stronger than expected in many countries.

Alibaba's 6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival (running on Tmall and Taobao) has seen a luxury surge. Almost double the number of luxury brands are participating compared to the last big event, 2019’s Singles Day in November

Ganni, Glossier, Anastasia Beverly Hills and Marc Jacobs Beauty are among several brands to announce monetary contributions to organizations supporting protestors and fighting injustice. 

YNAP has announced the launch of a new programme to boost development of AI-based technologies designed to transform the e-tail experience. That will include features such as visual search and virtual try-on.

Nordstorm, Target, Marc Jacobs and Virgil Abloh were among many to release statements in regard to the protests, receiving mixed responses from the public. 

The CFDA and Vogue's Covid-19 relief fund announced that $2.13 million will be distributed to 44 businesses in the fund's first round.

Paris's famed Galeries Lafayette department store, which receives some 37 million visitors every year, will reopen this weekend after being shuttered for nearly three months by the coronavirus pandemic, it said Friday.