- 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...
- Five things every retail executive should know
Glossy+ members stay ahead of the top trends in the rapidly evolving fashion and beauty industries with access to unlimited articles, invitations to exclusive member events, and insights from quarterly reports. And in our most recent report, the Glossy team explored the changing face of retail and looked at five trends shaping...
- How Michael Kors turned around its wholesale business in under 2 years
Two years after CEO John Idol announced the brand would be reducing the amount of inventory it shipped to its retail partners and opting out of broad retailer promotional events, wholesale performance is turning around. The brand’s now-lightened inventory load at department stores like Macy’s and Nordstrom is selling out,...
- Neighborhood Goods wants to be the department store for DTC brands
As the direct-to-consumer brand space matures, there’s a growing opportunity for the DTC department store. Neighborhood Goods, which raised nearly $6 million in May in an investment round led by Forerunner Ventures, will carry around 15 digitally native brands in its first store, set to open this fall in Plano,...
- How Reformation communicates sustainability messages in its email marketing
Reformation formulates its email strategy by balancing brand-, mission- and commercial-driven messaging. It takes data into consideration, to an extent, but maintaining a healthy mix in messaging is more gut-driven, since relying on data alone would lead to every email promoting product. To align mission into its marketing messages, Reformation’s...
- How Fabletics plans to double its business in three years
Adam Goldenberg, the co-founder and co-CEO of Fabletics and TechStyle, wants to fast-track his biggest brand’s growth rate: His goal is to double Fabletics’ business over the next three years. To do that, Fabletics is speeding up and improving its design and merchandising strategy, plotting expansion in more international countries,...
Designer Clare Vivier: ‘I’ve never been intimidated to sell direct-to-consumer’ Vivier joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss evolving as a designer-founder over the past 10 years, marketing in a department store versus Instagram, and keeping up with the pace of the industry.