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By Bloomberg Published August 17, 2025 The American Eagle Outfitters Inc. Sydney Sweeney “Good Jeans” controversy happened in late July — a lifetime ago in internet terms — but here we are, halfway through August, and people are still talking about it. One of the latest references happened last Friday, when Dr. Phil, outraged that liberals found […]

Published August 17, 2025 Topshop and Topman have been making headlines for months as the team behind them teased their comeback plan. And at the weekend it all fell into place and was just about the best feelgood news story out there. On Friday, the long awaited standalone website went live, then on Saturday, the

By Bloomberg Published August 15, 2025 William Clayton, a businessman who served successive US presidents and became one of the chief architects of the Marshall Plan, was no fan of tariffs. He rated the barriers erected during the Great Depression as one of the great crimes of the century. It’s hard to imagine that Clayton, who

By Reuters Published August 15, 2025 Well-heeled shoppers around the US seem – so far at least – willing to soak up price hikes for aspirational products from trendy Birkenstock sandals to Bugaboo prams, despite the impact of trade tariffs and belt-tightening elsewhere. A Birkenstock store in Nashville, US – Birkenstock German sandal and clog

By Bloomberg Published August 15, 2025 The market for used luxury timepieces recorded its best half-year performance since early 2022, providing a bright spot in an otherwise grim landscape for high-end watches. A timepiece by Patek Philippe – Web Watches off 5th The Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index, which tracks the 50 most-traded timepieces by transaction

By AFP Published August 15, 2025 The manufacture of iconic “made in the USA” cowboy boots is set to suffer from President Donald Trump‘s 30% tariffs on South African exports that came into force in August. Cowboy boots by Rios de Mercedes – Seth Teel- Facebook Texas’s most renowned makers of the southern US fashion

By Bloomberg Published August 15, 2025 Nike founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, are giving $2 billion to a cancer institute at University of Oregon that bears their name, the largest ever donation to a US college or academic health institution, according to a statement. Phil Knight is co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike – Reuters The Knights

By Reuters Published August 15, 2025 Danish jewellery maker Pandora posted second-quarter operating profit in line with expectations on Friday, and stuck to its full-year growth forecast. Pandora is known for its buildable charm bracelets “In these turbulent times, we are satisfied with yet another quarter of high single-digit organic growth and strong profitability,” CEO Alexander

By Bloomberg Published August 15, 2025 The Swatch brand is credited with having saved a Swiss watch industry that had been laid low by the so-called quartz revolution. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, these less expensive and more accurate watches from an ascendant Japan upended European mechanical watchmaking. Swatch is known for its bright, youthful

By Reuters Published August 14, 2025 Ulta Beauty and Target on Thursday said they have mutually agreed not to renew their shop-in-shop partnership when the current agreement concludes in August 2026. Ulta Beauty retails a multi-brand selection of cosmetics As part of the partnership between Ulta Beauty and Target, Target opened more than 600 Ulta stores