Hermès: Summer in the city

“Hot town, summer in the city,” were the lyrics to B.B. King’s greatest classic, and the leitmotif of an insouciantly chic Hermès collection staged on a steamy Saturday in Paris. See catwalkHermes – Spring-Summer2026 – Menswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight Presented inside the Conseil de Surveillance, a temple to French 1930s Rationalist architecture,…

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Craig Green: From Abbey Road to Arts et Métiers

The most fertile imagination in menswear, that would be Craig Green for the uninitiated, staged his latest show in Paris on Sunday, and it was, in a word, sensational. Craig Green spring/summer 2026 collection in Paris – Launchmetrics Riffing through materials, epochs, cultural references and diverse artistic moods to create the most original menswear of…

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Billionaire Mehta Brothers’ Torrent To Buy Stake In India’s JB Pharma In $1.4 Billion Deal

A JB Chemicals factory in Gujarat in western India. Courtesy of JB Chemicals Torrent Pharmaceuticals—controlled by India billionaire brothers Sudhir and Samir Mehta—has agreed to buy U.S. private equity giant KKR’s stake in JB Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in a deal valued at 119.1 billion rupees ($1.4 billion). Torrent Pharma will buy a 46.4% stake in…

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