(FILES) This photograph shows the BHV store (Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville) in Paris on October 5, 2025. SGM, co-founded by Frédéric Merlin, announced on June 16, 2026, that it would sell the business assets of BHV Marais to the Paris department store's "management team," which has decided to "put an end" to its much-criticized partnership with Shein, considered a "strategic mistake". (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP via Getty Images)