Was Dior’s hand-drawn holiday campaign a case of AI-powered ‘craftwashing’? On the Glossy Podcast this week, senior fashion reporter Danny Parisi and international reporter Zofia Zwieglinska discuss why brands are gravitating toward hand-crafted art in their campaigns, why they may be tempted to "craftwash" their marketing and what consequences brands face when the accusations of AI usage start to fly.
Brands are banking on live shopping this holiday season This year, more brands are gravitating toward live shopping, a growing channel that is set to play an outsized influence on shopping trends.
Fashion Briefing: How Zara Larsson, Charli XCX and burning suitcases drove a boom in Away’s aluminum luggage business Sales of aluminum products at Away have increased 20% from 2025 to 2026, making aluminum Away's best-selling and fastest-growing category.
Inside Oner Active’s tequila-scented new flagship in NYC The New York store is Oner's first physical retail presence anywhere in the world, despite Cela and Oner both originating in the U.K., showing how important the New York market is to the brand's growth. It is Oner's largest market, and one where there is clear demand for a physical...
Glossy Podcast: After his 12th CFDA award, what makes Ralph Lauren such an icon of American fashion? It's now 12 CFDA awards for Ralph Lauren, who has now won in every category there is to win. On top of Lauren's personal victory, Ralph Lauren, the company, posted earnings this week that were similarly triumphant. Revenue is up 10%, revenue in Asia was up 28%, and 1.7 million...
Glossy Pop Newsletter: Depop is hosting over 2,000 campus events this fall Since 2024, Depop has tripled the number of college campuses where it has a presence through its Campus Manager program to over 300. This fall, the company has already received 7,000 applicants for its 600 openings for student ambassadors, which Depop calls Campus Managers. To support the program's expansion, Depop...
Fashion Briefing: As AI content takes over, brands embrace hand-drawn animation for holiday Three new holiday campaigns highlight beautiful but notoriously time-consuming animation styles.
‘Holiday timing is a moving target’: Nordstrom aims to cut through the noise with an unexpected campaign With the holiday season so important, one challenge retailers like Nordstrom face is staggering their holiday campaigns and merchandising when Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas, New Year's and other winter holidays are all packed into a tight window of time.
Can fashion be funny? How comedians became the faces of fall Recent fashion brand campaigns have gotten a lot funnier. Increasingly, brands are moving beyond working with athletes, musicians and influencers and are instead enlisting comedians for their campaigns.