From Critic to Craftsman: Tanner Leatherstein’s Next Chapter
Tanner Leatherstein’s next chapter is going be less about breaking down leather goods and more focused on making them. The content creator — whose real name is Volkan Yilmaz —…
Retail’s Looming Inventory Problem
Tariff panic arguably hit a peak when the CEOs of Walmart and Target met with President Donald Trump in April to warn him that import duties as high as 145…
Tariff Windfall Tests Limits of India’s Apparel Factories
In a garment hub in south India, R.K. Sivasubramaniam is fielding requests from Walmart and Costco who want to sidestep higher US tariffs faced by rival Asian suppliers, Bangladesh and…
Foreign Sunscreens Battle It Out in the Biggest SPF Market in the World
At retailers across the US, it’s a battle of the sunscreens. In one corner is Naked Sundays, whose lavender-tinted tubes arrived in 700 Ulta Beauty last month (and whose SPF50…
Explainer: How Trump’s Tariffs Threaten Luxury Fashion
At a press conference in January, fresh off a promising earnings report and a stop at US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, LVMH chief Bernard Arnault — who had pegged hopes…
For Canadians, Trump’s ‘51st State’ Talk Is No Joke
Dear BoF Community, I may have left Montréal more than 25 years ago to relocate to London — and never moved back — but I’m still a Canadian through and…
Inside Luxury’s Broken Audit System
AZ Operations, a sub-contractor of Manufactures Dior tasked with the production of leather items and based near Italy’s fashion capital Milan, was accused by Italian prosecutors in June of being…