The customer acquisition game has changed in the last year for DTC brands. Two-year-old brand Xena Workwear is an online-only brand that's managed to ride some of those changes to a year of growth. Its annual sales increased by more than 1,000% in 2020, and the company hit a milestone...
The luggage category had a hard 2020. With travel heavily restricted, brands like Away and Rimowa saw a huge drop in sales. But now, with vaccinations rolling out and travel (slowly) returning, luggage brands are anticipating a return to growth over the next two quarters.
Fashion is notoriously difficult for people of color to break into. During this week's NYFW, which comes during Black History Month and after a year that saw a national reckoning around racial injustice, Black designers said the industry has progressed in its diversity and inclusion efforts, but more work still...
Rebecca Minkoff isn’t resting on her laurels this New York Fashion Week. In addition to an in-person show on the roof of Spring Studios on Tuesday and a livestream, she’s got new partnerships with Klarna and Verizon and is launching her brand on several new platforms at once, all timed...
The last year has been tough for models, especially high-fashion models who rely on runway gigs and campaign photoshoots in exotic locations for much of their income. Fashion events have been curtailed, plus brands have scaled back on their photoshoots. Some have experimented with replacing professional models with influencers and...
Simon Property Group, the owner of more than 200 malls across the U.S., didn't have the best year in 2020, losing 17% of its revenue or close to $1 billion. But one area that was surprisingly fruitful was its ongoing joint venture with Authentic Brands Group to acquire bankrupt retail...
The platform can manage the brand’s dropship commitments to many different retailers, and it allows any retailer to set up a dropship relationship with Title of Work without having an owned system in place to manage it. While larger retailers like Nordstrom or Bergdorf Goodman already have dropship systems in...
During Nordstrom’s latest investor day, on Thursday, President Pete Nordstrom spoke about upcoming changes to the company's strategy. Among them: It plans to grow its partner and shared revenue streams from 5% of the business to 30%, and concessions will be the primary method of doing so. Concessions and e-concessions have...
The ideas of escapism and joyful optimism were common refrains among fashion brands and retailers throughout 2020, with many brands positioning their clothes as a way to alleviate the Covid blues. Even the annual Pantone colors of the year for 2021 -- a dull concrete gray and a bright lemony...