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Amiri named formalwear partner of FC Barcelona
Published
November 3, 2025
Los Angeles-based fashion house Amiri is to design the formal wear of FC Barcelona – the current Spanish Liga 1 champions, and one of the most decorated clubs in the soccer world.
The winner of a record 80 domestic trophies, and of 23 European and worldwide titles, Barcelona is one of the most glamorous clubs on the planet. Its players have won the Ballon d’Or, the most prestigious individual prize in association football, the most for any professional team. Including 12 times for male players – like soccer legends Lionel Messi and Johan Cruyff – and three times for women players.
“The Amiri x FC Barcelona partnership begins with the 2024/2025 season, marking the start of an ongoing collaboration between Amiri and FC Barcelona. Both sides view it as a long-term relationship — one rooted in shared values of innovation, craftsmanship, and global excellence,” Amiri told FashionNetwork.com.
Founded in 2014 by Mike Amiri, a Beverly Hills High School graduate, the brand Amiri began specializing in stage outfits for musicians in California, before developing a first capsule collection.
By 2018, Amiri began staging runway shows during the Paris menswear season. One year later, Renzo Rosso’s OTB took a minority stake in the LA brand.
By 2020, Amiri had opened its first flagship on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, while Amiri was nominated four times for Menswear Designer of the Year at the annual CFDA Awards in New York.
Today, Amiri boasts a network of 31 boutiques, and retails in over 150 sales points in the U.S., Europe, Gulf and Asia.
The linkup with Barcelona, “marks the first partnership of its kind for Amiri, uniting with a global icon in sport, and bringing a distinctly Hollywood vision of modern luxury to one of the world’s most celebrated football institutions,” the brand noted.
This partnership also unites a 21st-century label and a club with 125 years of history, respecting tradition and heritage.
The brand will provide FC Barcelona custom suiting for all players, across both their men’s and women’s teams, alongside club executives and leadership.
“The tailoring created for FC Barcelona is exclusive to the club and will not be available for public sale. Each piece was made-to-measure for the players and staff, combining Amiri’s signature relaxed Californian tailoring with nods to the club’s heritage through custom pinstripe fabrics and deep navy tones,” Amiri told FashionNetwork.com.
Inspiration is drawn directly from the colors of the players’ strip. Dressed in rich blue and garnet for over a century, the club is also known as equip blaugrana – the blue and garnet team. Marrying signature Amiri style with the distinct identity of FC Barcelona, for the Winter season Amiri uses the club’s deep navy blue as the primary shade on precisely tailored wool six-button overcoats, as well as tailored jackets – double-breasted for men, single-breasted for women – and gently flared trousers in a fine white-on-navy pinstripe wool.
For summer tailoring, pinstripe also appears on a new shirt-collar classic blouson, an iconic Amiri style inspired by sportswear, translated to formalwear, and here returned to sports, detailed with MA Monogram embroidery on the breast pocket.
Lightweight, sports-silhouette knits with contrast MA Monogram and tonal FC Barcelona embroidery round out the wardrobe for summer, while for winter pinstripe poplin shirts are teamed with a garnet and blue-striped tie and gold bar tie clip.
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Nigeria’s textile imports up 47.43% YoY in Jan-Sept 2025
The country imported textile and textile materials worth N 228.83 billion in the first quarter (Q1) this year, N 337.12 billion in Q2 and N 248.32 billion in Q3.
Industry experts blame policy failure, weak execution of credit initiatives, abandonment of promised institutional reforms, pervasive corruption and structural bottlenecks like weak cotton farming, insecurity and the inability to scale locally-produced polyester for the decline, according to Nigerian media reports.
Nigeria’s textile imports rose to N 814.27 billion in January-September 2025—a 47.43-per cent YoY rise despite repeated government claims of the sector’s revival.
Rising imports indicate a weak domestic textile industry.
Industry experts blame policy failure, weak execution of credit initiatives, abandonment of promised institutional reforms, pervasive corruption and structural bottlenecks for the fall.
Hamma Kwajaffa, director general of the Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association, lamented that the 10-per cent tax on imported textiles—which was introduced when the ban on textile imports was lifted so that the amount collected can be ploughed into domestic textile production—has not been directed to improve the private textile sector.
Kwajaffa pointed to the failure to create a dedicated textile development fund domiciled with the Bank of Industry.
Conflicting positions among top officials had stalled any action related to the sector and repeated workshops and announcements without execution had yielded no tangible outcome, Kwajaffa added.
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Confident Meadowhall enjoys a year of strength
Published
December 19, 2025
There’s been quite a few end-of-year updates from shopping centres and all of them are upbeat after a busy 2025.
Sheffield’s Meadowhall is one of them, noting it has been a strong year of exchanges on new leases covering 300,000 sq ft of the destination, 80% retail and 20% hospitality, including renewals from 19 tenants.
It said visitor numbers “have also remained consistently high”, headlined by its busiest Black Friday weekend in six years (262,981 visitors across the three days), while October’s school half-term was also the strongest in six years (457,000 visitors representing a 9.7% year-on-year increase).
Meanwhile, commercial brand activations continued to “perform effectively” throughout 2025, including standout initiatives from Trinny London and Jo Malone.
And, of course, new openings and expansions are the lifeblood of any centre with Meadowhall announcing fast-expanding novelty retailer Miniso has just joined its roster while fashion lifestyle brand TK Maxx has extended its presence there, “concluding a strong year of leasing activity and retail performance”.
TK Maxx has added an adjacent unit to create a 19,000 sq ft space, complete with a 173-ft fully-glazed frontage on the Upper Level The Gallery, showcasing its mix of branded fashion, beauty, homeware, and accessories.
Miniso, meanwhile, has opened a 1,759 sq ft store on Lower Level High Street, introducing its range of lifestyle, homeware, and technology products, alongside the brand’s character collections.
These additions follow several major openings in 2025, including beauty majors Sephora and Superdrug.
These introductions round off a period in which several tenants have invested significantly in upgrading and expanding their stores. More than £47 million has been spent by brands alone across 2024 and 2025, with more than a third of Meadowhall’s operators undertaking new fitouts and refurbishments in that time.
Looking ahead to 2026, operator British Land said more than 25 brands have already committed, and will be bringing a further £8 million of investment to the centre.
Louisa Holmes, Asset Director at operator British Land, said: “This year’s level of investment, from new arrivals and long-standing tenants, reflects the confidence brands have in Meadowhall as a critical part of their national portfolio. In addition to that, the centre’s success means our brands are effectively competing to bring the best and latest shop fits and concepts here, elevating the experience for our visitors.”
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