Danny Parisi is a fashion reporter.
We spoke with Brooks Brothers’ COO Gianluca Tanzi about the brand’s big bet on artificial intelligence, the ways it has affected the brand’s business model and his boundless confidence in AI as a tool.
In a time when customers are demanding more personalization in how they shop and the products they buy, it is luxury brands that have the advantage.
With the purchase of Yoox Net-a-Porter by Richemont earlier this year and LVMH’s expansion into an e-commerce arm of Le Bon Marche with 24 Sèvres, Kering is the only one of the the big three luxury holdings groups without its own in-house, multi-brand e-commerce platform. Kering's announcement this week that...
Since Black Friday is the biggest shopping blitz in the U.S., mass brands and retailers are trying to stretch out the weekend for as long as possible. High-end luxury and streetwear, however, have kept their distance from the holiday, given their hesitance to discount items to protect their image of...
As the head of consumer products and merchandising at New York Excelsior, one of the largest professional Overwatch teams in the country, Gangemi has made it her mission to invigorate the crossover between esports and fashion. Esports has a massive reach, projected to bring in nearly $1.5 billion in revenue...
David’s Bridal is the latest victim of the sea changes that have rocked the fashion world at large, with bridal fashion brands being hit particularly hard as of late. One of David’s Bridal’s top competitors, Alfred Angelo, folded completely and unceremoniously last year, leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of customers...
Ted Baker is one of the key brands that is tying itself closer to Nordstrom through this partnership. In doing so, the brand is refuting the idea that wholesale is less desirable than direct for fashion brands today and asserting that wholesale still has an important place in a brand’s...
Streetwear and sneakers are among the biggest disruptive forces in fashion today. While much has been written about the overlap between the worlds of luxury and streetwear — embodied most notably in the appointment of streetwear icon Virgil Abloh to creative director of Louis Vuitton — one underexplored change that...
The idea behind the new search feature is that customers will “go down the rabbit hole,” searching for products, being inspired by what products are shown alongside the originally searched-for ones, which in turn inspire further searching and purchasing. This is meant to build a sense of personalization that accrues...
