ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 For a few minutes, everything looks perfect. Models walk beneath carefully engineered lights. Celebrities occupy the front row. Photographers crowd around entrances. Images race across Instagram, TikTok and fashion magazines before the final model has even left the runway. Then the lights go down. And for some of the…
ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Norway has lost its king. King Harald V, the country’s monarch for more than 35 years and one of Europe’s longest-serving heads of state, died Friday at the age of 89, bringing to an end a reign that spanned dramatic changes in Norwegian society and transformed him into…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 Dolly Parton, the country music superstar whose extraordinary journey took her from poverty in the mountains of Tennessee to global fame, Hollywood, business success and one of the world’s best-known children’s literacy programs, has died. She was 80 years old. Parton died Tuesday at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center…
THE ABE HOOK Coach is growing. Young shoppers are buying its bags. Sales are rising. International business is expanding. And its parent company just delivered better-than-expected quarterly profit. So why did Wall Street send the stock crashing by roughly 15%? Because investors aren’t worried about Coach. They’re worried about what comes next — and…
Luxury fashion has spent years competing for one increasingly difficult thing: attention. Brands have hired celebrities. They have paid influencers. They have staged enormous runway shows. They have flooded social media with campaigns designed to become the next viral moment. But some of the world’s biggest luxury names are now looking somewhere very different….
Air Canada is preparing for what could be one of its strongest fall travel seasons in years. Corporate travellers are returning. Premium travel remains strong. Passengers are still willing to fly. Normally, that sounds like the perfect environment for an airline. But there is a problem. Even with…
From sneakers to luxury clothing, the relationship between fashion and hip-hop has become big business. Artists are no longer simply appearing in advertisements. Some musicians work with brands on products, campaigns and limited-edition collections. But why are fashion companies so interested in musicians? The answer is bigger than music. It is about attention, culture and…
