Weakest Holiday Growth in 3 Years, LVMH China Slump, Uniqlo Record | Textile Weekly Brief

US holiday 2026 outlook, LVMH and China’s tax crackdown, Uniqlo’s record year, Vietnam’s yarn boom and more. This is the Fibre2Fashion Prime Weekly Brief for the week of October 16. Full stories on the Fibre2Fashion page and in the F2F Prime newsletter: https://campaigns.fibre2fashion.com/mailer/Digitization-htmlfiles//WPN/2026/10/17/e2320262-225e-48e4-9e1c-90b03408139f.htm #Fibre2Fashion #TextileNews #FashionIndustry In this episode, Ananya Mariam Rajesh (Mumbai) and Deepti Lahane (Ahmedabad) cover seven stories shaping textiles, apparel and fashion retail. MAIN STORIES US holiday 2026: Coresight Research expects holiday-quarter sales to grow 4 to 4.5%, but real growth is the weakest in three years https://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/prime-content/retail-industry/holiday-2026-real-growth-weakest-in-three-years-314183-newsdetails.htm LVMH and China: nine-month revenue of 57.1 bn euros, with Chinese demand down by mid-teens in Q3 as a tax crackdown bites https://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/prime-content/retail-marketi-intelligence-news/lvmh-under-pressure-as-china-s-tax-crackdown-hits-luxury-spending-314226-newsdetails.htm ONDO and Champion System: Lever Style sells the brand but stays on as manufacturing and supply-chain partner https://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/prime-content/retail-industry/ondo-buys-champion-system-can-lever-style-retain-apparel-orders--314161-newsdetails.htm IN-DEPTH Functional fabrics and bio-based materials: why the question is now what a fabric