With independent sellers lacking the capital and infrastructure needed to independently compete on authentication and pricing, third-party companies are popping up, offering the necessary tools for a price.
For newer and younger designers, fashion week is still an important milestone -- a way to show they've made it, several agreed.
The ongoing shakeups in the retail world have had major effects on department stores and retailers across the board, but it’s always the employees and workers, the people who actually operate those stores day in and day out, who end up feeling the biggest impact.
In the last year, the major rental platforms have increased the ways they work with brands, offering them more partnership options, more control and more ways to get in on the benefits of the booming rental economy.
For leaders at brands that are part of a portfolio, like the various brands owned by Gap, their fellow brands offer a helpful resource: counterparts in the same positions. Increasingly, leaders at these portfolio brands are forming groups with their counterparts -- i.e., the CMOs of every brand -- to...
As the Coronavirus continues to spread, fashion brands across categories are seeing the effects in the form of store closures, travel restrictions and a forced change in the way they work.
Richer Poorer has now joined the ranks of a small but growing section of the DTC pool that has rejected the common VC model based on massive initial growth, inflated by big marketing budgets.
For years, retailers’ prevailing attitude toward resale and rental platforms was one of non-acknowledgement or distrust. But increasingly, that's evolved to “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
The concept, eventually named O-1, has taken the form of a new marketplace hosted on the Greenhouse app. It will release regular, exclusive products manufactured in a sustainable way from big names in sneakers and streetwear. In order to get access to the products, customers will have to participate in...