Why iconic LA retailer Fred Segal is shutting down: ‘Retail is one of the most difficult businesses there is’ The pressures from the pandemic never let up and forced the company to close its final stores when the business failed to recover.
Fashion Briefing: With the Hamptons overcrowded, Upstate New York is ripe for fashion retail There’s another New York City-adjacent destination besides the Hamptons that’s becoming a destination both for affluent travelers and the luxury and fashion brands looking to cater to them: Upstate.
Cosmetic chemist Javon Ford on his unorthodox career path Ford’s background in chemistry, working on making new formulations for cosmetics companies, has given him an in-depth knowledge of what goes into beauty and skin-care products. His videos involve him busting some of the most widespread myths in beauty and skin care and pointing out which ingredients are harmful and,...
The Paris Olympics are disrupting French brands’ wholesale plans Fashion brands from luxury to sportswear have capitalized on the Paris Olympics with campaigns and collections, hoping to benefit from the billions of people watching the games. But the Games have also proven to be a time of disruption. Not only are there unexpected events — like the sabotaging of...
Can LVMH take the Formula 1 sponsorship away from Rolex? If it were to happen, it would be a major coup for LVMH and Tag Heuer and a blow to Rolex, which has ridden the popularity of Formula 1 as it has exploded both in Europe and the rest of the world. Formula 1 viewership in the U.S. nearly quadrupled...
Week in Review: Fashion at the Olympics and new creative director departures This week, we take a look at the Paris Olympics, which begin Friday night, including some of our favorite (and least favorite) opening ceremony outfits and the many ways brands are getting in on the excitement. Later, we talk about the week's big creative director departures, including Peter Hawkings from...
Fashion Briefing: How Jenni Kayne’s new store concepts are driving its growth The 20-year-old brand, which Kayne founded as an apparel brand in California after dropping out of college, has grown into a lifestyle empire with womenswear, beauty and home goods and 29 U.S. stores. All of it lives under Pacific Group, the Kayne family-owned business formed in 2022 to encompass Jenni...
Confessions from the fundraising trenches: ‘When you’re a first-time founder, you take what you can get’ In this first installment, a second-time startup founder who just raised a funding round for a fashion-tech related startup dishes on some of the insulting and traumatic experiences she had from her first go-round on the fundraising circuit as well as the pressure on first-time founders to accept money even...
Glossy Storytellers 2024: Derek Guy – Die, Workwear! The writer and creator of the menswear blog Die, Workwear! has become something of an authoritative voice on the matters of collar gaps, pant silhouettes and the unforgivable crime of putting rubber sneaker soles on a dress shoe. His threads on X, where he critiques the outfits of public figures...