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.
Sporty & Rich’s Emily Oberg: ‘Brands with a strong image stand the test of time’ After starting her career in streetwear, working as a video personality at Complex before heading up womenswear at Kith, Oberg saw the opportunity to build an owned brand based on the success of her mood-board-style Instagram account, Sporty & Rich. She co-founded the brand as it stands in 2018. It...
Patrick Ta, Ashley Tisdale, Susan Yara and Glamzilla on leveraging a viral moment In this panel discussion, which took place at Glossy's Beauty Pop event in July, Patrick Ta Beauty founder Patrick Ta, Stephanie "Glamzilla" Valentine, Naturium founder Susan Yara and Being Frenshe founder Ashley Tisdale delve into the underlying factors that contribute to the rapid spread of content on the platform and...
Luxury Briefing: Why luxury x American heritage brand collaborations are suddenly everywhere At a time when mid-level brands are feeling squeezed and luxury brands are struggling to maintain growth, new collaborations are offering both parties the opportunity to play to a new set of consumer habits.