Author name: Jennifer Davis

Happy one month Liberation Day anniversary! Celebrations will include a host of economic indicators that are likely to come in various shades of bleak, and, for counter-programming, updates from two of fashion’s hottest brands. We’ll start with the bad news. The Conference Board’s closely watched consumer confidence index, out April 29, is expected to fall […]

When the designer Conner Ives took his bow after his London fashion week show this February, he wore a T-shirt that proclaimed “Protect the Dolls.” Two months later, the design — and its message supporting trans women, who are affectionately called “dolls” in the LGBTQ+ community — has become ever more popular. The singer Troye

AbbVie Inc. raised its profit outlook for the year on better-than-expected sales from newer autoimmune treatments, but warned its forecast doesn’t take into account any potential changes in trade policy. The drugmaker raised its 2025 adjusted earnings by 10 cents to a range of $12.09 to $12.29 a share. That “does not reflect any trade

Ermenegildo Zegna Group has reported first-quarter revenues of €459 million ($522 million), a 1 percent decline compared with €463 million in the same period last year. Steep losses in wholesale revenue for the Italian luxury fashion group were offset by steady direct-to-consumer sales, particularly in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, the Americas and

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President Donald Trump said he expected to wrap up trade deals with US partners looking for lower tariffs soon.  “I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we’re finished, by the way,” Trump said of the deals in an interview with Time magazine published Friday.  “I’ll be finished. Now, some countries may

Hudson’s Bay Co. ULC, a company that’s so old it once played a central role for goods traders in Britain’s North American colonies, is being stripped for parts. The retailer, currently under bankruptcy protection in Canada, had devised a plan to rescue six of its 96 stores from liquidation, including its flagship location in one