On this week’s Glossy+ Talk, Coral Chung, co-founder and CEO of Senreve, spoke about how her brand has navigated the different sales channels, what pros and cons she sees in each, and how she weighs which retail partners to work with.
Amazon’s main appeal to brands is its scale, but out of the gate, the platform doesn’t make much use of its 112 million Prime members. Luxury Stores is launching with only one brand, Oscar de la Renta, and is invite-only, with the first round of invites going out yesterday.
Last year, Dressbarn, a women’s retailer founded in 1962, went bankrupt, closing hundreds of stores and going dark. But the company was purchased by Retail E-commerce Ventures and has found new life in the last six months, reinventing itself as an online-only retailer under new management.
The traditional fashion week structure is fracturing as designers ditch New York Fashion Week in favor of their own events. So third-party s and sites that collect every look from every show in one location are becoming the go-to source for runway content.
The pandemic, despite wreaking havoc on much of retail, has had a few winners. Off-price and discount retailers have seen their fortunes grow under recent pandemic conditions, with TJ Maxx seeing its sales between May and July exceed the same period from the year before. Revenue fell to $6.67 billion, which...
A diverse range of brands and retailers -- including Gap, Old Navy, American Eagle and La Ligne -- are launching prominent voting-rights-themed collections and campaigns in the coming weeks, particularly with a progressive bent.
Malls have been embattled for long before the Covid-19 pandemic began, with high rent prices, brands' move away from wholesale to direct sales and the rapid growth of online shopping eating into their prominence. The long gap in which those malls had to remain closed -- nearly six months --...
Normally, summer is the biggest season for pop-ups, with brands lining up to fill storefronts in buzzy neighborhoods like NYC's SoHo. After largely being on-hold since the pandemic began, they're finally starting to reopen -- after extra work on the part of brands.
The choice of a resale company, rather than a fashion brand or retailer, as HB Investments' first fashion investment is significant and emblematic of how prominent the category has become in the last few years, particularly since the pandemic began. The Luxury Closet is not the only resale company getting...