Luxury Briefing: Knit polos are taking over — and changing — menswear Especially apparent this summer, knit polos are inspiring men across the style spectrum to flee their fashion comfort zones and try a new shirt for size.
Celebrity-loved handbag brand Aupen enters a first-of-its-kind partnership with LVMH Rather than an acquisition or a traditional financial investment, LVMH’s backing of the brand will be based on resources through its Métiers d’Art initiative, as announced on Wednesday. Launched in 2015 to preserve traditional craftsmanship and best-in-class manufacturing techniques, LVMH Métiers d’Art has since made several acquisitions to build out...
Retrofête’s Ohad Seroya on leveraging DTC sales data to build beneficial retail partnerships On this week’s episode of the Glossy Podcast, Ohad Seroya, co-founder and creative director of NYC-based Retrofête, discusses the brand's growth trajectory and current strategies, including why its participation in New York Fashion Week is important, how it’s controlling its wholesale presence and how it’s improving upon the common in-store...
Fashion Briefing: Fast-growing and profitable, Wolf & Badger is fashion e-commerce’s exception to the rule As the longtime leaders of fashion e-commerce fall, the unique business model of the newly profitable Wolf & Badger stands to shape the playbook for the industry’s next era.
American Giant’s Bayard Winthrop: Presidential candidates are ‘yapping about the importance of American jobs,’ but not supporting domestic production According to Bayard Winthrop, founder and CEO of American Giant, the supply chain capabilities proven by the brand’s new Walmart partnership have big implications for the fashion industry. At the same time, they beg questions about why brands, retailers and policymakers have not yet rallied to rebuild domestic production.
Luxury Briefing: A luxury brand holdout (finally) launches e-commerce This week, a decades-old bridal company is hitting the gas on modernization; unpaid fashion internships are becoming a thing of the past; luxury is facing new challenges, according to a new industry report; fashion and furniture are getting cozier; and short shorts — for men — are trending.
Week in Review: Acquisition costs, content demands and wholesale contracts continue to challenge brands This week, we recap the big discussions at Glossy's E-Commerce Summit, which took place in Miami from June 10-12. While breaking down the challenges they're facing, attending fashion and beauty executives revealed high acquisition costs, unachievable content demands and undesirable wholesale contracts as top industry issues.
Brands are seeing better margins in wholesale than DTC At Glossy’s E-Commerce Summit in Miami this week, executives discussed the rising costs of doing business on e-commerce.
‘Go for the throat’: Brand executives on negotiating with retail partners At the Glossy E-commerce Summit, brand founders speaking in a town hall about the challenges they’re facing repeatedly brought up the excess fees and low revenue that come with wholesale options, as well as other headaches like large minimum order quantities.