The house of Moschino has unveiled an uncanny new special installation inside Dover Street Market in Paris. Its name: “Piece of Sheet.”

 
In effect, it’s a unique visual setting dedicated to Moschino’s Spring/Summer 2025 women’s collection bearing the same name. It features fashion and accessories from the collection, including white dresses made of cotton sheets.

The Milanese brand’s creative director, Adrian Appiolaza, is “a great admirer of everything related to Dover Street Market,” so he wanted to create a unique visual moment dedicated to the collection in the boutique.
 
The installation features bed sheets and laundry hanging on lines, along with light wood panels on the walls—mirroring the setup of the show. Unveiled last September, the collection was the third by Argentine-born Appiolaza for the house and contained many plays on elements taken directly from the Moschino archives: polka dots, ruffled or multi-fringed dresses, pearl necklaces, slogan suits, or black leather biker jackets.

 
Appiolaza succeeded American-born Jeremy Scott in December 2023, arriving with an impressive CV that included stints at JW Anderson, Miu Miu, and Chloé.
 
His new installation will stay live until Tuesday, April 22. During Milan Fashion Week in February, Moschino built a similar installation inside Rinascente Duomo, Milan’s key department store.
 
Moschino is also available in Paris in its flagship boutique at 255 Rue Saint-Honoré.

UK shop price inflation continued to be UK shop price deflation in March, which is good news for consumers at least in the month before many of their must-pay bills (such as energy, council tax and more) rise sharply.

And as well as overall deflation, the latest figures from the BRC-NIQ Shop Price Index showed the clothing and footwear category in double-digit deflation “as a result of weak consumer demand”.

Overall shop price deflation was 0.4% year on year in March, although prices weren’t falling as sharply as they did in February (0.7%) or across the first three months of the year combined (0.6%).

Looking specifically at non-food, deflation was 1.9%, compared to 2.1% in February.

The price declines in non-food — and fashion specifically — helped to counter price rises in food, which grew 2.4%, higher than the 2.1% in February.

BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said retailers were continuing “to do all they can to protect customers from the cost pressures bearing down on the industry. Prices fell for most non-food categories, which kept year-on-year overall shop prices in deflation, but at a reduced rate compared to February.

“With retailers bracing for significant extra costs which kick in later this week as a result of the Budget, inflation will likely accelerate in the coming months.”

And Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at NielsenIQ, added: “There is competition on the high street as retailers look to pull in reluctant shoppers with seasonal promotions. However, with upwards pressure on prices, retailers may also need some focused price cuts to help footfall in the run up to the late Easter.”

Les Deux, the Copenhagen-based menswear brand, has released its 2024 results and they show the 13th consecutive year of growth.

Revenue jumped in double digits, despite the challenging market backdrop that saw many companies large and small across all price points struggling to deliver meaningful growth.

It didn’t provide a specific revenue figure beyond the double-digit information, nor a number of other comparisons figures for 2023. But it said EBITDA saw “another year of growth” to €8.265 million (DKK 61.67 million) and pre-tax profit rose to €7.879 million (DKK58.792 million). Gross profit was €13.887 million (DKK103.613 million).

Its target for this year is further double-digit revenue expansion and EBITDA of €9.5 million-€10.5 million (DKK70 million-DKK80million). It said it has identified major growth opportunities in DACH, France, Benelux, the UK, and North America.

The company added that the 2024 figures “highlight Les Deux’s position as a growing force on the global scene”, with strong international expansion last year that included 25 new permanent shop-in-shops in premium department stores like De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands, Galeries Lafayette in France, and Nordstrom in the US.

Founded in 2011 by Andreas von der Heide, Kristoffer Haapanen, and a friend, Les Deux combines “minimalist Scandinavian design with fresh international influences” and offers a mix of preppy and streetwear pieces.

As well as the strong results, last year was a record done as far as investment in the brand is concerned. It put in place a new ERP system “to future-proof the brand’s operations, along with advanced analytics tools enhance decision making”.

And staff numbers rose by a double-digit percentage, while it also opened two new international offices to expand its reach across Europe, with new spaces in Düsseldorf and Paris, plus an expansion of showrooms in the Copenhagen HQ. 

The year also saw it taking direct control in key markets including France and the UK, transitioning from agents to in-house operations “to foster closer client relationships”. 

Plus there was a “successful” collab release with Yale University and it set up US distribution, which has seen the market become its sixth-largest.