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• Alibaba earnings down as China tech giants face turmoil

  3 hours ago - Business

  Shanghai - Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group said Tuesday that it posted lower profit but maintained steady revenue growth, indicating that a government

• Luxury retail rebounds despite covid continuing to curtail travel

  Aug 2, 2021 - Business

  The luxury sector has flashed back from the Covid-19 pandemic

• Hermès rebounds to pre-corona sales and profit levels

  Jul 30, 2021 - Management

  French luxury group said Friday that its sales

• Two held after Paris jeweller e-scooter robbery

  Jul 29, 2021 - Fashion

  Paris - French police arrested two suspects on Wednesday after a robbery at famed Parisian jeweller Chaumet where a thief made off with up to three million

• Parisian jeweller robbed, thief gets away on segway

  Jul 28, 2021 - Fashion

  An armed man using a stand-up scooter Tuesday robbed famed Parisian jeweller Chaumet of up to three million euros worth of jewellery in an audacious evening heist, a source close to the case said.

• Cannes fashion: The good, the bad and the plain weird

  Jul 19, 2021 - Culture

  Cannes - With so few red carpets to walk this past year, stars, celebs and the world's sharpest-elbowed influencers piled onto the "tapis rouge" at the Cannes

• Yemeni model in rebel jail attempts suicide

  Jul 2, 2021 - People

  Dubai - A young Yemeni model has attempted suicide in a Sanaa jail run by Huthi rebels enforcing a strict moral code, rights groups and her lawyer said. En

• Grande dame of Paris department stores reopens after 16-year renovation

  Jun 22, 2021 - Retail

  Parisians will once again be able to stroll the gilded

• Paris fashion week SS22: houses eyeing a physical return to catwalks

  Jun 22, 2021 - Fashion

  France's fashion houses are tip-toeing back on to the catwalk

• Barcelona Street Vendors Union launches game-changing sneaker brand

  Jun 19, 2021 - Fashion

  When he left Senegal, risking his life to make the dangerous