🇬🇧 Results, results, results – essentials by nss magazine

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August is so close you can almost touch it. Summer is also looming for the fashion industry, and, in fact, the only news making headlines these days are the announcements of the runway schedules for Fashion Month at the end of September. Yet there’s a less creative, but no less important, side of the fashion world that’s buzzing right now: the analysts. In fact, all the major publicly traded groups are currently presenting their half-year or second-quarter results. And this year, they seem promising: Richemont, Moncler, and Zegna are all showing growth. We’ve come to take Hermès’ success for granted by now. But we all know that the results that really matter to us, the ones that tell us something, are those from LVMH and Kering. Because in the end, that’s what fashion is all about: results, results, results…

• “Lidl Hug - A Hug of Convenience” is the campaign that captures how we do our grocery shopping. Discover more.

• Zendaya’s press tour for Odyssey has set the make-up trend of the summer and (spoiler) it should be nearly invisible.

• Prada will open the next Milan Fashion Week, which is unusual for a brand typically very set in its scheduling habits. Could it have something to do with Vogue World coming to town?

• In the midst of all this, Leo season has begun. Read here to find out what to expect in the coming days.

• We’ve listed all the films not to miss at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Study the list from your beach towel.

• Everyone loves niche fragrances. Everyone loves Italy. But does everyone love niche fragrances made in Italy? We found the most beloved ones you may not have known about.

• What does it mean to be a teenager today? We asked ourselves that starting from the world’s most famous teenager: North West.

• The usual boors left the usual boorish comments because Ghali uses skincare products. But if a hyaluronic acid serum makes you feel less masculine, the fault is certainly not the serum’s.

• Amy Odell is among the most intelligent fashion commentators working today. And this week, in the New York Times, she gave us another gem: the problem of fashion slop.

• The Guardian tackles something nobody in Italy has the courage to say out loud: when a restaurant has a woman making pasta in the window, it’s a tourist trap. Not that tourists seem to mind.

• Fashion’s clientele has finally figured out that polyester is best avoided. According to BoF, we are in the worst moment for the fabric that dominates fast fashion across half the world.

• Jing Daily has also clocked that wealthy spenders drop serious money in boutiques, but half the market is made up of aspirational customers. So how do you solve the problem?