Studio 189’s Rosario Dawson and Abrima Erwiah on using fashion as an agent for social change In this Fashion Month edition of the Glossy Podcast, we sit down with Rosario Dawson and Abrima Erwiah, founders of Studio 189, the 10-year-old fashion brand and social enterprise that hosted a runway show on Sunday. Dawson and Erwiah discuss how they’ve built and grown a company with purpose, and...
Luxury Briefing: The new designer brand playbook champions lifestyle and accessibility To a heightened extent and with a new focus on accessibility, luxury brands are building out the story they’re telling, leveraging channels from Spotify to stores to fashion week runways.
NYFW designer Jackson Wiederhoeft on learning from Thom Browne and gaining the CFDA’s support In this Fashion Month edition of the Glossy Podcast, we sit down with emerging designer Jackson Wiederhoeft, whose training includes Parsons School of Design and three years under Thom Browne. Like Thom Browne’s, Wiederhoeft's collections are decidedly theatrical, whimsical and, therefore, perfectly suited to a runway. He discusses the importance...
Dora Maar CEO Lauren Wilson on leveraging NYFW’s marketing opportunities In this podcast series, running throughout Fashion Month Spring 2024, Glossy and influential leaders are breaking down the evolution of the experiential event, as driven by technology. First up is Lauren Wilson, founder and CEO of Dora Maar. Along with sharing New York Fashion Week's importance to her evolving business,...
Serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore on why her footwear brand is ‘really an engineering company’ Kilgore sold her first business, Bliss Spa, to LVMH in 1999. That was before starting the "masstige" beauty brand Soap & Glory, which she sold to Walgreens Boots Alliance in 2011. In the years since, she's launched Soaper Duper, Beauty Pie and FitFlop, the latter of which she described as...
Luxury Briefing: ‘Niche luxury’ the new ‘quiet luxury’ With the concept of “quiet luxury” now mainstream, a new wave of brands with $600 sneakers and $1,200 handbags is emerging. Their bet is that luxury consumers are itching for styles less basic.
Rebecca Hessel Cohen: LoveShackFancy’s future could include restaurants and hotels As founder and creative director Rebecca Hessel Cohen describes on this week's episode of the Glossy Podcast, her growth strategy for LoveShackFancy includes "taking its iconic prints, colors and sensibility, and bringing it to life in different categories, price points and markets."
Joseph Altuzarra teams with West Elm on kids’ home collection Joseph Altuzarra x West Elm Kids, which hit West Elm’s U.S. and Canadian e-commerce sites on Monday, is made up of 42 pieces of furniture and accessories, each made for kids’ rooms and reflective of West Elm’s signature modernity and functionality.
Luxury Briefing: The luxury fashion rental market is gaining traction As consumers’ budgets get squeezed, they’re pulling back on their discretionary goods spending. For many fashion fans, that’s meant finding new ways to indulge their love for “it” styles and runway-plucked OOTDs.