Universal Standard collabs with Anthropologie in latest DTC-wholesale partnership The traditionally DTC company is set to launch in dozens of new wholesale retailers this year, including Anthropologie. To celebrate, Universal Standard is unveiling this week an exclusive collection with Anthropologie, taking 13 of its best-selling styles and introducing unique colors and patterns sold only at Anthropologie and exclusively online.
Executive Action Items: How True Religion, Shinola and more brands are balancing digital and IRL marketing Glossy brought together marketing executives from True Religion, Tecovas, Shinola and Cake Body to discuss what digital and IRL marketing strategies are working most effectively for their brands.
Fashion Briefing: Inside Princess Polly’s all-out wholesale strategy with Nordstrom Princess Polly is taking its U.S. retail expansion plans further by expanding its partnership with Nordstrom — its products will soon be featured in all 92 Nordstrom stores in the country.
Nuuly shows rental is good business with subscribers topping 300,000 For its fourth-quarter earnings call, reported this week, URBN revealed that Nuuly’s subscriber base jumped by 53% year-over-year to over 300,000 members, adding another 20,000 members. Nuuly has now been profitable for a full year, ending this past fiscal year with a profit of $5.2 million. Its revenue increased by...
Week in Review: Milan Fashion Week, Steve Madden raises prices, De Beers struggles This week, we talk about the goings on at Milan Fashion Week, including the Gucci show and the departure of Jil Sander’s creative directors. Later, we talk about Steve Madden raising prices to deal with the costs of tariffs and the continued struggles of the mined diamond industry.
How secondhand fashion can benefit from tariffs, new legislation Resale stands to benefit both from tariffs on low-cost goods and from proposed legislation favoring circularity. In response, resale companies are putting more investment into new tools like AI and seeing their profitability grow.
Aligne is the latest British fashion brand targeting big growth in the US market Aligne is part of a wave of British high-street brands that are expanding further into the U.S. this year. Many of these brands have experienced organic U.S. growth on international platforms like Shopify and are now trying to capitalize.
Week in Review: London Fashion Week preview, Forever 21 bankruptcy, EU waste legislation This week, international fashion reporter Zofia Zwieglinska provides a preview of London Fashion Week, including last-minute changes to the schedule. Later, the Glossy Podcast hosts discuss Forever 21 circling its second bankruptcy in only a few years and the new EU legislation set to make companies responsible for where their...
Fashion Briefing: Can Nike and Skims’ joint venture compete in the crowded women’s activewear market? The two companies are joining not for a one-off collaboration or even an ongoing partnership, but for a full-on new independent brand called NikeSkims. It will be run as its own company with its own staff, much in the way the Nike-owned Jordan Brand operates semi-independently from its parent company.