Glossy Team

Glossy Team

Glossy Team

  • Glossier launches ‘super secret’ lip balm line on Snapchat

    Beauty brand Glossier, known for Instagram focus groups and Facebook live product previews, turned to Snapchat this morning to launch three new lip balms.

  • Famous friends: A day in the life of Complex’s chief content officer

    Callahan-Bever joined Complex 11 years ago as an editor before working his way up into his current position, where he oversees a staff of 150 people across several departments, including editorial, video and branded content.

  • Social media has transformed streetwear

    After years as a subculture, being “street” has hit the mainstream -- beyond the street, onto runways and a full-fledged lifestyle brand. That’s why Stussy can be found at Urban Outfitters and Vetements can sell $300 t-shirts without anybody batting an eye. And Gosha Rubchinskiy can take his counterculture streetstyle...

  • Chanel’s Cuban fashion show sparks outcry

    Cuba's country's tourism minister announced Wednesday that the number of U.S. visitors to the country doubled this year. Among them: Fashion house Chanel, which hosted a glitzy show in Havana yesterday. Luxury retailers are hot on the heels of U.S. tourists, newly welcomed onto the island nation. But they come...

  • Inside Privé Porter’s $18m Birkin reselling business

    Every so often, a piece of news about an ultra-expensive, rare handbag appears in the mainstream press such as the Birkin that sold two weeks ago to an unidentified buyer for the record amount of $298,000. Behind that sale, and many of its ilk, Privé Porter, a Florida-based handbag reseller...

  • Inside Justin Bieber’s VFiles pop-up

    The Justin Bieber Purpose Tour pop-up shop at VFiles demonstrates streetwear's ongoing rise as a burgeoning business in recent years, reflected in the numerous celebrity collaborations with emerging designers and media sites devoted to tracking their launches.

  • ‘Featured hotties’: A guide to streetwear media

    From the buzz around Kanye West's fashion line to the rise of brands like Supreme, urban streetwear has never been more in vogue. Media companies like Complex, HighSnobiety and Hypebeast are carving out lucrative niches.

  • ‘Building aspiration’: A guide to creative director Instagrams

    For designers and creative directors in the digital age, it's just as important to have an engaging personal social media presence as it is for the brand itself. The key, experts say, is authenticity. With an ample dose of celebrity, of course.

  • Barney’s tries e-commerce returns, but doesn’t go all the way

    Barneys Warehouse has long been known for its stringent lack of return policy. Now the department store is eschewing its “all sales final” policy, recently announcing it will allow shoppers to return purchases online. However, they'll have to pay the price.