Fashion Briefing: How is inflation impacting shoppers’ spending habits? The biggest topic in fashion, and possibly all of retail, is inflation. While not exactly sexy, it's so top-of-mind for the industry that at Milan Fashion Week, two different brands – Moschino and Diesel – worked inflation-based puns into their collections with actual inflatable clothes and set dressings.
Week in Review: Milan Fashion Week recap and Daniel Lee’s Burberry appointment This week, the main topic of conversation was Milan Fashion Week, the trends on display and the distinction between MFW and its London and New York counterparts. The second half of the episode is devoted to Daniel Lee's surprise appointment at Burberry and the potential directions he might take the...
Daniel Lee hopes to bring Burberry back to its British roots A little less than a year after his abrupt departure from Bottega Veneta, designer Daniel Lee has a new home: Burberry.
Weed, but make it fashion: Cannabis brands use fashion to destigmatize the plant Sackville's newest apparel collection debuting this week makes them part of a new wave of fashion-forward cannabis brands like Papers + Ink, Houseplant and Flower by Edie Parker.
MFW Briefing: In Milan, designers look toward a sustainable future At Milan Fashion Week, designers continued to push the sustainability conversation forward.
Weekend Briefing: As inflation rises, fast fashion proves more tempting For people who strive and save to be able to afford a nice bag, even a modest price increase can make a one-time splurge an impossibility.
How Telfar captured luxury customers with a contemporary price point Telfar bags typically retail for $200-$500, far less than the other most highly-desired handbags from Chanel, Prada and Hermes. Price is often a major element of whether something is considered “luxury” or not, so how did Telfar get itself positioned among much more expensive brands?
Week in Review: London Fashion Week recap This week, Zofia Zwieglinska reports back from her time at London Fashion Week, including how the death of Queen Elizabeth II impacted shows and what differences she saw between the approaches of designers showing at LFW, compared to NYFW.
Rent the Runway leverages physical retail for sample sales Now, another piece of RTR’s profit-seeking plan has come into focus. Rent the Runway permanently shuttered all five of its physical stores in 2020. Now, the company is returning to physical retail by leveraging the Leap platform to host a temporary sample sale.