Gucci joins a growing trend in the luxury market to modify seemingly sacrosanct garments. However, high-end brands are increasingly seeing the value in allowing consumers to bring their own flair to products, regardless of maintaining tradition and aesthetics.

Patagonia shared a note on its mobile app today bidding users farewell and pointing consumers to its optimized website on mobile browsers. The move comes on the heels of other provocative moves by the company, including its controversial "Don't Buy This Jacket" campaign in 2012 that derailed overconsumption and consumerism.

Designer Vault, which started in 2011 as an e-commerce site for thrift Chanel finds, recently expanded to include a 300-square-foot showroom in Carlsbad, located between San Diego and Orange County. The shop showcases more than 1,500 Chanel products, primarily handbags, jewelry and other accessories, that sell for upwards of $25,000.

For David Shapiro, it's a Love Supreme. Shapiro a self-professed Supremacist, creator of Pitchfork Reviews Reviews and a journalist who has written for The New Yorker and the Observer, has been obsessed with the fashion brand and everything it stands for for decades.

Bain & Company's 2016 survey of nearly 1,500 Chinese consumers shows that 60 percent identified Weibo and WeChat as their online source for information on luxury goods. Burberry, Coach and Chanel are some of the high-end fashion brands that have done WeChat marketing right.

Luxury advertising spending is on the rise after what was described as a disappointing year in 2015 — and digital is forecast to take a bigger chunk of ad budgets, new research shows. Spending on luxury advertising is expected to rise 3 percent this year to $10.9 billion, up from...

Living a Goop-approved lifestyle isn’t as intimidating as it sounds. It’s simply boils down to striking the right balance. Don't take our word for it, though, that comes straight from a Goop employee herself. Laurie Trott is the publisher’s fashion director, overseeing what clothes are featured and sold on the...

Instagram has changed how styles get discovered, how trends get set and how advice gets doled out. Now it’s changing the role of the stylist, too. New York-based stylist Kim Naci, who has been in the industry for almost 20 years, says the rise of digital media has allowed her to...

The tech brains behind Rebecca Minkoff is Uri Minkoff, brother to designer Rebecca and CEO of the brand, who last year also launched his own eponymous ready-to-wear mens collection. Minkoff, who is a special executive in the sense that is actually embodies his own customer -- young and digitally savvy...