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.
Fashion brands are strategizing to avoid a discounting ‘bloodbath’ Brands are responding to these inventory challenges in a number of ways. The first, most obvious path is heavy discounting. URBN CEO Richard Hayne predicted that many brands across the industry, including his own, will have to rely on steep discounting to sell through their inventory.
From Walmart to Galeries Lafayette: Inside Claire’s expansive retail strategy When Ryan Vero took over as CEO of the jewelry brand Claire’s in 2019, he saw an opportunity. Claire’s operates thousands of its own stores, but significantly leveraging the Claire’s brand to sell its product in other stores had yet to be done.