The labor market is fluctuating wildly, with headlines about major rounds of layoffs at high-profile companies like Spotify and Hasbro as the national unemployment rate remains low at 3.7%. In step, brand leaders are looking for more ways to keep employees invested and retain their loyalty over the long term.

On this final Week in Review episode of the year, we speak about the news coming out of COP28 in Dubai, including an explicit commitment to move away from fossil fuels by 2050. We also talk about the rise of generative AI in fashion, including which use cases are viable...

This holiday season, inflation and price increases have been the thorn in the side of many shoppers. JCPenney’s approach to the holiday shopping season is simple: pre-inflation prices.

Siblings Monica Royer and Andy Dunn’s children's and maternity apparel brand, Monica + Andy, was founded in 2014 as a purely direct-to-consumer business. But as the DTC market changed, the brand started working with Walmart in 2022 on a line of baby clothes. Now, the brand is going even deeper...

Across the jewelry sector, lab-grown diamonds are shaking up an industry that’s been ruled by mined diamonds for centuries. But while many jewelers and jewelry brands are picking one or the other – Pandora sells exclusively lab-grown diamonds for example – DTC jewelry brand Mejuri sees a place for both.

Buy-now, pay-later is a growing form of payment, but it's not without its risks. Now regulators are taking a closer look. Also, we explore what's behind the executive leadership changes taking place throughout fashion.

We’re in the middle of a great reshuffling of creative directors across luxury fashion. In the last month alone, Tod’s, Rochas, Givenchy and Alexander McQueen have replaced or lost their creative directors. If you zoom out a few more months, you can add Supreme, Gucci, Chloé, Bally and Ann Demeulemeester...

This week, Danny Parisi and guest co-host Quaid Walker discuss why luxury watch prices keep falling, even amid apparent high demand. They also talk about the watch brands embracing brick-and-mortar retail and the future of the primary and secondary watch markets.

Citizen typically prefers to engage with the brick-and-mortar retail world through its large network of dealers. But this week, the company is changing that with the opening of its first major flagship store.