- Lafayette 148 relaunched its e-commerce site with a new customer strategy
Lafayette 148 is aiming younger, and bringing the benefits of its vertically integrated business model to the forefront in order to appeal to modern customer interests.
- Margaux co-founder Alexa Buckley: ‘The world is too noisy to be all things to all people’
Margaux co-founder Alexa Buckley joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss how the DTC brand playbook is changing, what was behind her brand’s a-ha moment and what it means to be a modern heritage brand.
- Inside Farfetch’s long-awaited IPO filing: rising revenue (and customer-acquisition costs)
In its filing, Farfetch laid out its approach for driving global online luxury fashion sales, both on its platform and by providing partners with technology systems, which resulted in the company earning $386 million in revenue in 2017. It also addressed all the risk factors associated, and one of the...
- Nordstrom is using Los Angeles as testing ground for new retail strategies
To make the most of customer dollars, the company is putting resources behind new store strategies that can complement the growing online business, a targeted marketing approach segmented by region, and an improved and localized supply chain that can speed up the production cycle and make it work more efficiently.
- How Tiffany is reaching out to Chinese millennials on Tmall
In China, Tmall’s luxury customers have gotten first access to Tiffany & Co.’s Paper Flowers collection, shopping the assortment in a virtual pop-up two weeks before it goes on sale in the brand’s brick-and-mortar stores on September 1.
- Michael Kors’ new smartwatch targets the Chinese customer
The launch comes less than a week after the brand reported that revenue for its Michael Kors Licensing business, which houses the watch category through a licensing agreement with Fossil, fell by 5 percent. The goal is that, by pushing its smartwatch category and updating its fashion watch line, the...
- Rachel Zoe’s first brick-and-mortar store will focus on styling, not just sales
The store is set to open this September in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, where it will be part of a new retail development from Caruso, the real estate firm behind LA’s well-known shopping destination The Grove, where Rachel Zoe previously held a pop-up store. Right now, the...
- The Glossy Report: Summer 2018
Each quarter, the Glossy team explores key themes and topics from the rapidly evolving beauty and fashion industries and breaks them down for you. In this report, we looked at the changing face of retail and the top five trends shaping the industry.
- How Fancy.com stocked its first store from its 250,000-item online marketplace
Fancy’s New York store opened on Nolita's Bond Street on Sunday, with limited-edition AS Roma Football Club tees and exclusive Nike Air Force 1 and Nike Air Max 1 sneakers designed with the hip-hop collective ASAP Mob. The rest of the store is categorized into fashion and accessories, home and...