Fashion
South Korean brand Time tests the French market at La Samaritaine
Published
September 3, 2025
La Samaritaine is testing out new fashion propositions in its spaces, and it’s the South Korean label that’s taking over the atrium to introduce its sleek, feminine looks to customers of the Parisian department store. The brand, born in 1993, has set up a 62-square-meter pop-up store on level -1, open from August 30 until October 30. Two months of experimentation in the French market, where Time began to parade in 2023 during Paris Fashion Week (starting at the Palais de Tokyo).
This temporary store is part of a global expansion plan for the brand, which intends to extend its footprint beyond its own borders. In a setting enhanced by metallic surfaces, an olive-green carpet and curvaceous furniture, the Fall-Winter 2025/26 collection features rounded jackets, muted knits and numerous shawls, “particularly popular in Korea,” according to the company.
Time, whose artistic director is Jung in Choi, will parade again in the French capital in a month’s time, to present its spring/summer 2026 collection. Afterwards, the company aims to open its first permanent boutique in Paris.
The Time brand belongs to the Korean Handsome group, launched in 1987, which owns or operates some forty ready-to-wear labels, cosmetics labels and lifestyle brands (in-house and under license). It has a network of 1,300 outlets and is itself owned by the Hyundai Department Store Group.
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Production output fell by 0.3 per cent QoQ in the quarter to August—a smaller decrease than in the quarter to July, when it fell by 1.4 per cent (revised down from a fall of 1.3 per cent in the previous estimate).
Real UK GDP grew by 0.3 per cent quarter on quarter (QoQ) in the quarter to August—a slight rise following a QoQ growth of 0.2 per cent in the quarter to July.
Production output fell by 0.3 per cent QoQ in the quarter—a smaller drop than in the preceding quarter.
Manufacturing showed no QoQ growth in the quarter.
GDP grew by 0.1 per cent month on month in August, following a fall of 0.1 per cent in July.
Manufacturing, the largest production sub-sector, showed no QoQ growth in the three months to August 2025.
Construction output increased by 0.3 per cent QoQ in the three months to August 2025—a smaller increase than the QoQ growth of 0.5 per cent in the three months to July (revised down from 0.6 per cent in the previous estimate).
GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.1 per cent month on month (MoM) in August 2025, following a MoM fall of 0.1 per cent in July (revised down from no growth in the previous bulletin) and a MoM growth of 0.4 per cent in June this year.
Production grew by 0.4 per cent MoM in August 2025, whereas construction fell by 0.3 per cent MoM.
“Today’s data shows the economy picking up slightly, driven by services and construction. That will be welcomed by business, ahead of what is expected to be a challenging Budget next month,” said Stuart Morrison, research manager at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
“Our latest survey shows business confidence and investment levels continue to suffer. A fifth of firms are expecting lower turnover over the next year, and a quarter have scaled back investment plans,” he said.
“For the last twelve months, SMEs [small and medium enterprises] have told us the same story: rising costs, weak investment and little sense of relief on the horizon,” he added.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
Published
October 18, 2025
Recognised as a protected geographical indication in France, Dentelle de Calais-Caudry says it has begun the process of becoming a European geographical indication to better protect its identity against low-grade counterfeits.
From December 1, the European Union will introduce a simplified procedure under Regulation 2024/1143, which now governs geographical indications and protected designations of origin across its Member States.
Crucially, Europe is now extending a protection regime to artisanal, manufactured, and industrial products, which was previously reserved for agricultural produce, foodstuffs, and spirits.
“The Dentelliers de Calais-Caudry have already applied to the INPI, which is responsible for forwarding their application to the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office), so that their geographical indication can be recognised throughout the European Union”, say the Calais and Caudry lacemakers.
Dentelle de Calais-Caudry became a regulated geographical indication in France at the beginning of 2024. It took the local industry’s representatives five years to achieve this goal, which aims to distinguish and protect know-how that is more than two centuries old, and relies on the use of imposing, complex Leavers looms, which lend their name to the lace they produce. In 1958, the “Dentelle de Calais” label was launched, and in 2015 it became “Dentelle de Calais-Caudry”, to include manufacturers from the Caudry area.
“Regularly confronted with very poor-quality counterfeits that damage their image and sales, the lacemakers of Calais-Caudry will, by obtaining this European geographical indication, benefit from legal protection across the 27 countries of the Union”, says the label, which hopes that “this guarantee of authenticity and quality, which will reassure all designers, stylists and lovers of Calais-Caudry lace, will help safeguard this know-how, these ‘passion’ trades, and accelerate international development.”
Today, Calais-Caudry lace is produced in Calais by Codentel, Cosetex, Noyon (Darquer), and Sophie Hallette / Riechers Marescot, which also operates in Caudry. The town is also home to Beauvillain Davoine, Darquer & Méry, Dentelles André Laude, Dentelles MC, Jean Bracq, and Solstiss.
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