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He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school. Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in [...]

Arriving at the luxury house two years after Karl Lagerfeld, he helped guide a boom in both products and revenues as president of the company's American arm, Chanel Inc. Arie [...]

From fashion world rumor to reality, another industry shake-up. The tectonic plates of the fashion world are shifting once again. On Friday, LVMH confirmed that Kim Jones would be stepping [...]

He has just left his fourth job at a big brand. Maybe it's time he start one of his own. Would you buy that? It took only minutes after LVMH [...]

Celine shocked the industry by announcing that Hedi Slimane, its top designer, is leaving. Hours later, it surprised many again by naming his replacement. In one of the swiftest rounds [...]

Haider Ackermann, a coolly sensual designer, is the new creative director at Tom Ford. Tom Ford, a brand long associated with the sexy, glamorous aesthetic of its eponymous founder, has [...]

The British luxury group appointed Joshua Schulman to replace Jonathan Akeroyd, and said it expected earnings to suffer as an industry downturn deepened. Burberry, Britain's largest and most identifiable luxury [...]

On a recent afternoon, the designer Dries Van Noten sat in the sprawling old warehouse that houses his Antwerp headquarters, with its bare concrete walls, vintage oak cupboards and views [...]

Hello, Open Thread. Happy Milan Fashion Week. It’s shaping up to be a good one. For years there has been a lot of moaning and breast-beating in the city about [...]

And he has some ideas about what we should wear. Having mixed feelings about return to office? Not sure what to wear? Ralph Lauren has a solution for that. On [...]

The recent history of John Galliano, Dolce & Gabbana and even Ye suggests the answer may be yes. ''''High & Low: John Galliano,'' the feature-length documentary about the former Dior [...]

FINANCE JPMorgan Faces FinesOf $348 Million for Lapses JPMorgan Chase plays a part in trillions of dollars of financial market trading around the world every day, but federal regulators said [...]

For about a decade, people in the New York art and fashion scene have relied on Eric Wrenn, an unassuming designer known for his minimalist touch, to help shape the [...]

The headline was Gucci. The headline was always going to be Gucci, in the same way the Ever Given was destined to dominate the news cycle when the mammoth vessel, [...]

SECURITY Honeywell's Safety Ops Boosted With Carrier Deal Honeywell said on Friday that it would buy the air-conditioner maker Carrier's security unit for $4.95 billion in cash to bulk up [...]

Why is the industry going backward when it comes to diversity and designers? It has been a nutso year in designer churn. Last month, three new creative directors made their [...]

Ahead of his first show at Milan Fashion Week, Sabato De Sarno talks family, tattoos and what he sings in the shower. Last January, two months after Alessandro Michele shocked [...]

She made Britain's Ann Summers shops a thriving source of lingerie and sex toys and became a role model for female entrepreneurs. Jacqueline Gold, who after joining her family's corporation [...]

As a child in Messina, Italy, a port city in the northeastern corner of Sicily, Marco De Vincenzo, whose parents owned a vehicle registration agency, assumed that a career in [...]

In a fashion world surprise, the designer is leaving the Italian label he has helmed for 10 years. Fashion is about to get a little less funny. In yet another [...]

The makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench has long been lauded behind the scenes for her work with fashion brands. Now her own high-end beauty label is getting a lot of attention. [...]

The longtime artistic director of men's wear at Fendi, a brand founded by her grandparents, no longer feels she has to prove that she earned her place. IT'S THE DAY [...]

Daniel Lee makes his debut at the ultimate British brand, and starts by putting his ducks in a row. LONDON -- The air in the big black tent in the [...]

Stephanie Linnartz will become chief executive of the sportswear giant after its stock has fallen and some of its customer base has strayed. Under Armour named Stephanie Linnartz, president of [...]

That Suzie de Rohan Willner finds herself living in Wallingford, a handsome market town that sits on England's river Thames in Oxfordshire, feels like fate. Some 30 years ago, Ms. [...]

ECONOMY Trade Deficit Increases 5.4%, to $78.2 Billion The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in October as slowing global demand and a strong dollar pushed goods exports to a sevenmonth [...]

Ms. Gass, who will be become president at the denim maker, is expected to take over the top post at the company within 18 months. Kohl's chief executive, Michelle Gass, [...]

Yvon Chouinard still possesses, in the proud parlance of the climbing community, the ''dirtbag'' sensibility. In the 1960s, he lived to climb and made do selling handmade climbing gear so [...]

''I know it can sound flippant, but they really embody this notion that every billionaire is a policy failure.'' RYAN GELLERT, chief executive of Patagonia, on the move by the [...]

Hello, Open Thread. Happy Easter. A new trailer for the Barbie movie is out. I feel a pastel surge coming on. However, before that trend hits — and you can [...]

Chanel's creative director seeks out Paris's quieter corners to clear her head. I cross the Seine most days -- it gives me a breath of fresh air, a sense of [...]

One of a core group, he helped the company outfit a generation of working women, marketing its lines to department stores in the shopping-mall era. Jerome Chazen, an original partner [...]

Nigo, the Japanese street wear king, is joining the luxury world and taking on ''the greatest challenge'' of his career. There was a moment, about six years ago, when Nigo [...]

COMPANIES Apple Has a New Return To Office Date: Indefinite Apple, which had already delayed the date by which it would ask employees to return to physical offices from September [...]

An unofficial qualification to become chief executive of Patagonia seems to be an interest in extreme sports, a strong meditation practice or both. The previous C.E.O. practiced Tibetan Buddhism. The [...]

Look around at the way young men now think about clothes, design and music, and you'll see him everywhere. In recent years, it could often appear as if there were [...]

ECONOMY Manufacturing GrowthContinued in November American manufacturing activity grew at a faster pace in November with producers trying to keep up with demand amid ongoing supply shortages and delays. The [...]

Camille Miceli once inspired Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and others. Now she's Pucci's first female designer. For more than two decades, Camille Miceli was an open secret in the fashion [...]

Halston hired her to design his first collections. She worked with Calvin Klein. And she helped make Chanel newly relevant when it was floundering in the 1970s. Frances Stein, who [...]

Patagonia has never been a typical company. Founded by a mercurial mountain climber named Yvon Chouinard, the privately held outdoor apparel and equipment maker has blazed its own trail for [...]

The celebrated men's wear designer makes his women's wear debut at Fendi this week. Can he pull it off? Kim Jones, the British designer, is many things. He is among [...]

Mr. Nygard was arrested in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities. A federal indictment in New York City accused him of recruiting dozens of women and teenage girls for [...]

The British fashion designer will oversee Fendi haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur, but will also continue as artistic director of Dior Men. The job of artistic designer at Fendi has [...]

Sunday breakfasts are a shared ritual for Molly Goddard and her husband, Joel Jeffery, who together run the brand Desmond & Dempsey. In One Good Meal , we ask cooking-inclined [...]

In the fashion world, there are a bunch of rules. Most people are scared to break them, sometimes for good reasons, other times not. About a year and a half [...]

In the summer of 2018, two top Under Armour executives traveled to the West Coast on a critical mission. Kevin Plank, the sports apparel company's founder and chief executive, and [...]

''He was not emotional about fashion,'' a colleague said. ''He was steady.'' He was also influential. Ed Filipowski, a public relations executive who became one of the fashion industry's most [...]

Margaret Jasper Greenberg and Erik Davis Blumenkranz were married Nov. 19 in San Francisco. Patricia Mazzucco, a county clerk, officiated at City Hall. On Nov. 23, the couple took part [...]

She took over her family's company, Columbia Sportswear, when her husband died and saw it flourish, becoming its flinty public face in ads. Gert Boyle, a German-born businesswoman who built [...]

Anna Weedon Meacham and Said Labib Nashashibi were married Oct. 5 at the Museum of the City of New York. Adani Illo Almoustapha, a friend of the couple who became [...]