The London College of Fashion announced yesterday that it's teaming with Microsoft on a new incubator program for students, designed to provide students with the resources needed to advance their studies in areas like 3D body scanning and virtual reality. While fashion incubators are nothing particularly novel, they are increasingly...
CEO John McPheters sees luxury fashion as the last piece of the retail “puzzle” Stadium Goods has been fleshing out. It already sells products through Amazon, eBay and Tmall in addition to its New York City store and e-commerce site, so according to McPheters, the mass-market customer and traditional streetwear...
Following school, fashion designers’ journeys are only going to get more congested, as the barrier-to-entry in fashion has never been lower. As FIT students created garments meant to represent the next phase of the industry for Thursday's Future of Fashion runway show, they weren’t only focused on techie fabrics and...
Draper James is one of many brands strategically attaching itself to a mass brand in a lifestyle capacity. The goal, ultimately, is not only to secure a larger chunk of the increasingly saturated lifestyle market, but also to use a wider set of resources to expand product assortment while luring...
Tamara Mellon joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss how she started building a brand for the third time, how it sits in the luxury market, and the future of retail business models.
Though e-commerce sites like Etsy often serve as creative outlets for burnt-out designers, former Silicon Valley executive Elisa Rossi is using a similar model to debut a marketplace for the independent work of artisans specializing in luxury goods.
Beauty is the fifth most-searched category on Pinterest. However, the company regularly hears from its 200 million monthly users that searching for beauty images and tutorials that match their skin tone is next to impossible. In response, the social network is adding an “inclusive discovery feature” that allows users to...
Through technology like IBM’s new TrustChain platform, which uses blockchain technology to create a network of information surrounding product history, the fine jewelry industry is getting on board with the idea of a trusted database. As the network gets off the ground, it could serve as a template for other...
Though Levi Strauss & Co. has long asserted itself as a leader in sustainable fashion, the environmental group Stand.earth is calling out the denim retailer as a top polluter in an extensive new report released today.