By AFP Published November 16, 2025 Is India the new El Dorado for French luxury brands? For two decades, the most prestigious brands have dreamed of India, but the world’s most populous country is still a long way from meeting their expectations. Pedestrians walk past the Galeries Lafayette store in Bombay on 15 October 2025….
Published November 16, 2025 Over the first nine months of the year, the French leather industry recorded a 3% decline in exports to 13.7 billion euros, according to the Economic Observatory of Alliance France Cuir, which cites a drop in orders from Asia and the United States. Shutterstock The Observatory’s economic report notes a 7%…
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Published November 17, 2025 Perfect Moment announced on Friday sales for the second quarter surged 24% to $4.8 million, on the back of strong wholesale revenues at the après skiwear brand. Perfect Moment The London-based company said wholesale revenues skyrocketed 61% for the three months ending September 30, thanks to growth across its wholesale order book…
By Bloomberg Published November 17, 2025 When Bernard Arnault, one of the world’s richest men and chairman of LVMH, dropped by Shanghai in September, many assumed his itinerary would be routine: check in on Louis Vuitton, Dior, and the rest of his empire’s boutiques in China’s most prestigious malls. But instead, Arnault did something unexpected….
Princess Beatrice has said premature birth can be “incredibly lonely”, as she reflected on her own experience for a podcast ahead of World Prematurity Day. Her words are part of a campaign for premature birth research charity Borne, of which she became a patron months after her daughter was born several weeks early. “I think…
By Reuters Published November 17, 2025 Walmart CEO Doug McMillon will retire next year after more than a decade at the helm, capping a period when he reshaped the big-box retailer into a technology-driven powerhouse whose shares have consistently outperformed the broader market. John Furner – Reuters McMillon, 59, will be replaced by U.S. division…
The developers of the big generative AI chatbots are continuing to push out new features at a rapid rate, as they bid to make sure their bot is the one you turn to whenever you need some assistance from artificial intelligence. One of the latest updates to Google Gemini gives you the ability to set…
A major international research effort is reshaping the long-held belief that lead exposure is primarily a modern problem. The new findings show that early human ancestors encountered lead repeatedly for more than two million years, suggesting that this toxic metal may have played an unexpected role in shaping the evolution of hominid brains, behavior, and…
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Lee Ho Seong) has captured the first-ever observation of water repeatedly freezing and melting at ultrahigh pressures above 2 gigapascals (2 GPa) while remaining at room temperature. These rapid changes were recorded on a microsecond (μs, one-millionth of a second) timescale. This achievement led to…
