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Balenciaga concludes Piccioli's tenure after less than two years

Balenciaga has confirmed the departure of its creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, via a statement from Kering. The Italian designer steps down after less than two years in the role. This news arrives just weeks after Kering confirmed the exit of Anthony Vaccarello from Saint Laurent and Seán McGirr from McQueen. Consequently, the group led by...

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Women in sporting goods leadership: 'It is not really changing'

Leaders from UEFA, Sport 2000 International, O’Neill and Decathlon took the stage at the ISPO Summit in Amsterdam on Tuesday with a shared message: women’s leadership in sport and sporting goods is moving too slowly. On the panel “Change Management: Leading with Courage in Times of Misalignment” were Laura McAllister, Margit Gosau, Tamara...

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Tapestry raises full-year outlook as Coach sales jump 16 percent

Tapestry, Inc., the owner of Coach and Kate Spade New York, raised its fiscal 2027 outlook after first-quarter revenue rose 11 percent, driven by 16 percent growth at its Coach brand. Net sales for the quarter ended September 26, 2026, increased 11 percent to 1.89 billion dollars from 1.71 billion dollars a year earlier. Excluding Stuart...

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Canali's CEO Stefano Canali on art, in-house production and the jacket’s 'hidden architecture'

“Much of what makes a Canali jacket exceptional is concealed within it,” Stefano Canali, CEO of the Italian menswear house, told FashionUnited. That idea drives Under the Surface – Shaping the Unseen, a new project in which four contemporary artists, including Los Angeles-based ceramicist Brian Rochefort, respond to the “two hundred sartorial...