Hudson’s Bay Co. received a New Year’s Eve jolt, jumping 17.4 percent on a WWD report that executive chairman Richard Baker and a group of shareholders were close to sealing a deal to take the parent of Saks Fifth Avenue private. The stock, which trades in Canadian dollars on the Toronto Stock Exchange, was up […]
LONDON — Retailer Sir David Jones, who secretly battled Parkinson’s disease as he built a successful career on the British high street, has died aged 79, according to his former employer, the fashion chain Next. Jones, a savvy accountant with zero fashion flair, rescued Next from collapse during the Eighties after staging a boardroom coup that […]
The pretty people of the celebrity and fashion world remained as good at partying as ever in 2019. Here, the best photos of the year from the party circuit. Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook. Read More…
If the stock market is a game of brute force — and it often is — Amazon won the last decade. The value of the web giant’s shares shot up 1,492 percent since the end of 2009, giving Amazon a market capitalization of $927 billion as it headed into the final, short week of 2019. […]
Amid consumer demands for greater sustainability as well as improved fit, comfort and performance, the textile industry responded with a variety of innovations in 2019, which will start to be seen in spring and fall 2020 collections. Dovetailing with these efforts are technology providers that are offering various solutions to help companies better manage supply […]