Kate Barton never set out to launch a fashion brand. But, three years in, her namesake label is earning industry accolades, getting scooped up by top retailers and being chosen for big red-carpet appearances by influential women across fields. 

Alexander Wang last hosted a show on the New York Fashion Week calendar in February 2018. But with new leadership, new product innovation, a mysterious new project and a brand anniversary to commemorate, the draw this season was too real to ignore. 

On Monday, Betches Media introduced Betches Style, intended to offer style guidance to its largely Gen-Z and millennial women audience in a way that’s “funny, relatable and actually helpful." Recognizing that modern shoppers increasingly search social platforms and rely on influencers’ posts for outfit ideas, Betches Style will place a...

In a late April interview for the Glossy Podcast, when asked whether she expected tariffs to affect Rent the Runway’s membership pricing, co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman told Glossy she was “taking it day by day” and had planned to sit down with 20 brand partners the following week to discuss...

At this week’s Glossy’s E-Commerce Summit in Miami, brand and retail executives used town-hall and working-group discussions to workshop their next strategies, with considerations including lower consumer sentiments and disruptive, ever-changing trade laws. To wrap the event, we gathered some brand leaders onstage to discuss the conversations that sparked new ideas,...

On day one of the Glossy E-Commerce Summit, brand executives took part in a frank and open discussion about the biggest challenges they’re facing now and how they're navigating them. Along with tariff tax-related issues, content demands are weighing on their minds.

Celebrating 50 years in business, the boutique born out of Houston is answering brands’ business needs in ways that are rare in the current retail landscape. As described by the designers it carries, the company’s sell-through rate is extraordinary, thanks to its seasonal buys that are bold, collaborative and informed...

At this week’s Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas, SoulCycle executives told Glossy the company is building up its apparel retail arm to become 15-20% of the business. Standalone retail stores are being considered, as are expanded retail floors in existing studios.

Best described as testbeds for ideas with the potential to resonate with Gen Z, Coach Play’s “fully immersive” and “hyperlocal” stores have seen impressive levels of dwell time. Compared to a typical Coach store, a larger number of Gen-Z shoppers enter Coach Play stores. And among those who enter, their...