As leader of the Aura Blockchain Consortium, Daniela Ott is tasked with persuading brands to join brands such as LVMH, Prada and Richemont-owned Cartier on the shared digital platform which creates ‘product passports’ for luxury goods.

Brands are adopting new technologies that store and share product information to improve authentication, provide transparency and boost consumer trust. However, for “product passports” to truly gain traction, businesses must coalesce around common standards and engage with pilot projects at scale.

Competition for talent from both inside and outside the fashion industry will intensify in 2022. To attract and retain the right employees across their organisations, fashion companies must prepare their workplaces to ensure they are flexible, diverse and digitised.

The industry pays tribute to the much-loved designer, whose death was announced on Sunday.

The Off-White founder and Louis Vuitton men’s designer had been called the Karl Lagerfeld of his time before succumbing to cancer at 41.

With Tiffany’s LVMH-backed reboot making a splash, Cartier is trying to hit back with its own holiday push. Here’s what the campaign says about the Paris-based jewellery giant’s strategy.

Bain’s annual market study shows an uneven recovery with new brands, regions and distribution channels taking the lead. Some of these shifts are likely to stick.

The UN Fashion Charter upgraded its targets to drastically slash emissions by the end of the decade and added LVMH as a signatory.