Worldview: Indian Film Stars Rule the Lakme Fashion Week Runways

🇮🇳 Indian designers cast a new mix of Bollywood stars for Lakme Fashion Week. This season’s showcase, held from Oct. 11 to fifteen, noticed actors like Athiya Shetty, Karisma Kapoor, Ananya Pandey, Rana Daggubati, Janhvi Kapoor, Disha Patani and Parineeti Chopra stroll the runway. Cosmetics big and title sponsor Lakme, owned by Hindustan Unilever, joined forces with the Trend Design Council of India (FDCI) and Reliance Manufacturers to host the biannual occasion which alternates between Mumbai and Delhi for the winter festive and summer time resort seasons. The most recent version was held within the latter metropolis, that includes native labels like Tarun Tahiliani, Amit Aggarwal, Falguni Shane Peacock, Aneeth Arora and Uncooked Mango in addition to worldwide company together with New York-based Bibhu Mohapatra. [Arnika Thakur for BoF]

🇨🇳 Shiseido’s online sales hit by Chinese boycott of some Japanese cosmetics. Since June, a cohort of Chinese language shoppers have been involved about Japan’s launch of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, though Tokyo maintains that the water from the Fukushima nuclear plant broken by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 has been extensively handled, bringing it in step with the World Well being Group’s consuming water requirements. The following boycott has brought on Shiseido’s on-line gross sales in China to say no 7 % over the previous six months, in response to Chinese language knowledge suppliers, however a Bernstein analyst stated that “ultimately shoppers will realise there’s restricted publicity and transfer on.” [Financial Times]

Middle Eastern stores and events affected by Israel-Hamas war. Ten days after Hamas’ terrorist assault on Israel, the battle seems set to accentuate as Israel prepares the following part of its navy response in Gaza, the place the United Nations is warning of a “calamitous scenario” for the civilian Palestinian inhabitants. Many vogue professionals are mourning the lack of life on either side of the battle and a few manufacturers are donating to charities to supply humanitarian reduction. Shortly after the preliminary assaults, world manufacturers comparable to H&M and Zara briefly shuttered their Israeli shops however some Israeli vogue factories, retailers and firms, comparable to Delta Galil, continued uninterrupted or shortly resumed operations. In Gaza, the place essential infrastructure has been broken or destroyed, retail districts have additionally been affected. Trend enterprise leaders at the moment are monitoring how the scenario might additional influence the business within the wider Center East area. To date, Dubai Trend Week went forward as deliberate and Riyadh Trend Week stated it plans to proceed in Saudi Arabia, however the Trend Belief Arabia and We Design Beirut occasions had been postponed in Qatar and Lebanon respectively. At model stage, some luxurious gamers are suspending or cancelling occasions in Dubai, however others are going forward. [Reuters, Sourcing Journal, Jerusalem Post, Al Jazeera, BoF Inbox]

🇲🇽 Fashion Week Mexico celebrates 40th edition with varied line-up. Mexico’s fundamental vogue week, offered by title sponsor Mercedes-Benz within the Mexican capital from Oct. 9-12, noticed native designer heavyweights like Carla Fernandez, Lorena Saravia and Francisco Cancino current their newest collections alongside visitor designers from the broader Latin America area comparable to Venezuela’s Efrain Mogollon. [BoF Inbox, Forbes Mexico]

🇺🇿 Activists accuse major Uzbekistan cotton producer of human rights violations. The Uzbek Discussion board for Human Rights filed a criticism towards Indorama Agro, claiming it had engaged in union busting and “land grabbing” within the Central Asian nation which is likely one of the world’s high ten cotton producing nations. The transfer prompted Higher Cotton to droop the agency from the sustainable cotton initiative, and a response from the agency saying the allegations had been “flawed, deceptive and biased.” [Sourcing Journal]

🇨🇳 China Duty Free Group’s parent company posts 29% surge in profit. China Tourism Group Responsibility Free Company Restricted (China Tourism Group), one of many world’s largest journey retailers and a serious participant in China’s home duty-free hub Hainan the place world vogue and wonder manufacturers proceed to take a position, noticed working revenue rise to 50.837 billion yuan ($6.96 billion) for the 9 months ended 30 September. [Moodie Davitt Report]

🇮🇳 India’s Mensa Brands raises $40 million in growth capital from EvolutionX. Based by former Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan in Could 2021 and changing into a unicorn six months later, the Indian e-fashion group has amassed $200 million in fairness from outstanding world traders since then. It secured the most recent spherical of funding from the Singapore-based debt financing platform established collectively by DBS and Temasek. Mensa’s portfolio of e-commerce and digital-first client manufacturers consists of vogue corporations Dennis Lingo, Excessive Star, Anubhutee, Hubberholme, Kagiri, Ishin Fashions, Priyaasi, Bonkids and Lilpicks. [Business Standard]

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia’s Cenomi Retail to bring global high-street brands to Uzbekistan. The Riyadh-based agency, previously generally known as the Alhokair Trend Retail unit of Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair Co., has a portfolio of franchise companies and different partnerships with greater than 95 manufacturers, together with Zara and Aldo, for markets within the Center East, North Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus and Balkans areas. It has signed an settlement with the brand new Tashkent Metropolis Mall to deliver a number of worldwide manufacturers to Uzbekistan’s capital after it opens. [Middle East Retail News]

🇳🇬 Nigeria-based World Shoe Inc. sets up antimicrobial footwear factory in Ghana. The social enterprise based by Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Manny Ohonme, targets among the world’s poorest shoppers, offering a product that prioritises consolation and breathability in a spread of climates and protects towards tropical illness and soil-transmitted helminths via a sturdy antimicrobial EVA foam. “This [shoe]… has the potential to revolutionise how we obtain higher well being and financial fairness,” stated Astor Chambers, VP of promoting for World Shoe, and a veteran of Nike and Adidas. [Business Wire]

🇰🇷 Louis Vuitton taps South Korean girl group Le Sserafim as brand ambassadors. The 5 Ok-pop band members, Kim Chae-won, Huh Yun-jin, Hong Eun-chae, Kazuha and Sakura, have appeared in a marketing campaign for the French luxurious model that includes a capsule assortment of baggage accessible within the Korean market. The group joins different Ok-pop stars who’ve partnered with the model together with Stray Children’ Felx, Got7′s Jackson Wang, BTS’s J-Hope and NewJeans’ Hyein. [L’Officiel Singapore]

Taipei Fashion Week designers focus on streetwear and youth culture. Taiwan’s fundamental vogue week showcase is holding runways and occasions from Oct. 11- 19 throughout Taipei that includes the Spring/Summer season 24 collections from manufacturers together with Acrypsis, 67Arrow, Anowhereman, Simply in XX, Plateau Studio and Oqliq. The occasion, which was renamed in 2018 and overseen by Taiwan’s deputy minister of tradition Sue Wang, is now led by the overall supervisor of Condé Nast Taiwan, CM Liu, who acts because the lead challenge supervisor. This season, the occasion overlaps with the Taipei Revolutionary Textile Software Present (TITAS), which kicked off on the seventeenth. [Taiwan News, Fibre2Fashion, BoF Inbox]