BIGBANG are back, and after fourteen years, back in London
BIGBANG brought their 20th anniversary tour to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: Daesung math, Taeyang the gentleman and a whole stadium singing Haru Haru.
Rejuran's cosmetics are growing twice as fast as its injectables, and the two aren't the same molecule
PharmaResearch's cosmetics exports rose 91.8% in the first half. Its injectable reached Britain this year — and it isn't the same molecule as the serums.
Korean skincare won THG 64,000 customers
THG says Korean brands brought 64,000 new customers to Lookfantastic and Cult Beauty in the first half. Its total active customer base didn't move.
Human Made built a system to stop people queuing
Human Made's biggest store opened in Harajuku on Saturday with a mobile ordering system designed to keep customers from queuing outside.
Japan topped the apparel value table by adding one brand
Brand Finance says Japanese apparel brand value rose 29% to $13bn. Uniqlo and Asics are the entire figure, and Asics is a new entrant.
Paris has twelve Japanese houses this week
Nine Japanese labels have runway slots at Paris Fashion Week this week. Korea has two presentations and nothing on a catwalk.
Twenty years in, BIGBANG played Paris for the first time
BIGBANG's first Paris concert, reviewed from the floor: thirty-one songs, an anniversary lightstick nobody had yet, and a crowd that travelled in from across Europe to hold the wrong ones.
Getting ready for Chuseok: the food on the harvest table
Chuseok falls on Friday, and families across Korea will gather round a table of harvest food. At the centre of it is songpyeon, a half-moon rice cake steamed on pine needles.
London's schedule this season is the most Asian it has been
At least six labels from or led by designers based in Asia show at London Fashion Week this week, across four of the season's five days.
Undercover sold for about £2.8m
Human Made will pay 554 million yen in cash for all of Undercover. Jun Takahashi gives up running the label he founded and keeps the design.
Weverse leaked what fans spend, not who they are
HYBE's Weverse says data tied to 422,584 accounts was exposed, including payment methods and amounts — five days before Korea's fine ceiling rose.
Aespa's São Paulo VIP buyers are going to Brazil's consumer agency
Buyers of a 2,689-real VIP package at aespa's São Paulo show are seeking refunds through Procon. The listing set no duration for what they bought.
Lee Chang-dong took the only prize Asia won at Venice
Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love won the Silver Lion at Venice on Saturday, the only prize an Asian film took from this year's competition.
Onitsuka Tiger sells the archive. Asics rents it out.
Asics releases its floral GEL-KINETIC FR with Cecilie Bahnsen on Saturday, days after reviving a 2003 Onitsuka Tiger. Both sell the same thing.
Evan sold 461,488 albums in a day
Evan's first solo EP sold 461,488 copies on day one. His old group sold 1,774,829 three weeks earlier on the same chart. That ratio is the story.
Two mass retailers just bet on Korean beauty
Pureseoul has brought seven Korean sister brands to Primark, where 43 own-label K-beauty products already sell for under £5. Target opens with the real names.
Musinsa's ₩10tn ask is six times what it sells in a year
Musinsa applied for a Seoul listing on Monday. The valuation being discussed is about six times annual revenue, in the city's thinnest IPO year in four.
Katseye sold out the O2 twice without a single UK top 10 hit
Katseye filled the O2 twice last week. Their British chart record contains six songs, forty weeks and no top 10 singles at all.

