Luxury E-Commerce: Crash or Correction?

Why Some Brands Are Cutting Prices, High Street Brands' Sustainability Scores

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2022 Pierre Mallevays examines the boom, bust and future of luxury e-commerce stocks. Lime Crime and a few other brands are bucking high inflation and lowering prices in a bid to broaden their appeal. Felix Capital raised $600 million and plans to invest in start-ups that are web3 native. Inditex, Gap and fashion's other big high street brands provide a mixed bag of results in The BoF Sustainability Index 2022. L'Oréal and Shiseido are betting on new investment funds targeting C-beauty companies to sustain growth in China. What will it take to fix fashion's greenwashing problem? Join us for our new BoF masterclass series.

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FINANCIAL MARKETS Luxury E-Commerce: Crash or Correction? By Pierre Mallevays

In a little more than one year, luxury e-commerce stocks, from Farfetch to The RealReal, have plummeted from astronomical highs to trading at significant discounts to benchmark Amazon. READ MORE

BEAUTY Why Would a Beauty Brand Drop Its Prices in 2022? By Diana Pearl

Lime Crime's bucking industry trends by abandoning its prestige branding, but the company sees it as a necessary step in its reinvention. READ MORE

SUSTAINABILITY Are Mass Market Fashion Companies Really the Industry's Worst Performers on Sustainability? By Sarah Kent

Levi Strauss and H&M Group rank among the top five companies in The BoF Sustainability Index 2022, but the high-street segment also contains the annual assessment's lowest-scoring company with no points at all. READ MORE

CHINA Rethinking China's Beauty Market By Zoe Suen As global brands face headwinds in China, L'Oréal and Shiseido are betting on new investment funds targeting C-beauty companies to sustain growth. READ MORE

Natacha Ramsay-Levi and Bianca Saunders Join New Leather Design Collective READ MORE

Felix Capital Is Backing Web3 Natives With New Funds READ MORE

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