5897 Results for ‘fashion’
  • The forces working against contemporary fashion

    As the luxury fashion industry consolidates, customer loyalty drifts and the traditional growth mechanisms falter, the sprawling list of contemporary brands that bubbled up in the last 15 to 20 years have begun exploring their options.

  • American Fashion Network CEO Jackie Wilson: ‘Amazon’s model scares me to death’

    American Fashion Network CEO Jackie Wilson joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss how Zara changed the private-label business, and how Amazon is changing it again. At the core of the shift is speed and, according to her, fashion is only going to keep getting faster.

  • Why L’Occitane is positioning its female employees as influencers

    French beauty brand L'Occitane is the latest company to shine a light on its employees in the name of marketing.

  • Beauty retailer Violet Grey is taking a content-first strategy

    Editorial content via tutorials, Q&As and first-person essays have always had their place in the beauty industry, primarily in print magazines and online publications. But for some retailers, like Violet Grey, Goop and Net-a-Porter, editorial content is the key driver behind their e-commerce businesses.

  • How Self-Portrait built a brand off one signature style

    At the press preview for Self-Portrait's pre-fall 2019 collection, Chong discussed building a brand identity, balancing consistency and innovation, and getting feedback directly from customers.

  • The Glossy Report: Summer 2018

    Each quarter, the Glossy team explores key themes and topics from the rapidly evolving beauty and fashion industries and breaks them down for you. In this report, we looked at the changing face of retail and the top five trends shaping the industry.

  • Yahoo Lifestyle debuts celebrity influencer series NowWith with eBay

    Yahoo Lifestyle is rolling out the next step of its “NowWith” program, a “celebrity-driven platform” that hosts a series of shoppable short videos featuring different celebrity influencers along with brand and retailer partners. In addition to the previously announced series starring Nicole Richie and affiliated with the lifestyle brand Wylde...

  • ThredUp’s Anthony Marino: ‘We’re trying to create a business that makes money and does good’

    On this week's episode of The Glossy Podcast, Hilary Milnes sits down with ThredUp president Anthony Marino to talk about what's unique about the online resale market, how the company manages its massive and ever-changing inventory, and why its partnerships with outside retailers are a win for all involved. Edited...

  • How Tumi battles ‘journey hacking’

    For brands across the board, ensuring a smooth path to purchase is a key factor of optimizing the customer experience. For the last year, Tumi has eliminated a hurdle for its e-commerce shoppers: “online journey hacking,” the term for malware-driven pop-ups and ads diverting shoppers to competitor sites. The result...

  • Fashion month, by the numbers

    Monday marked the official start of fashion month, the industry's seminal biannual event that convenes fashion professionals and enthusiasts around the world to see the latest designer collections. We took a look at fashion month by the numbers, including everything from the average number of minutes a show is delayed...

  • How Fashion Revolution plans to become a go-to industry resource for sustainability

    While Fashion Revolution was founded mostly to raise awareness -- compared to organizations like Fashion Positive and the Sustainable Fashion Coalition, which act as industry think-tanks to identify more technical solutions -- the group hopes to become more of a catalyst for sustainable change. For example, this year, Fashion Revolution...

  • Lilly Pulitzer’s Michelle Kelly: ‘The customers are in charge’

    In this episode of The Glossy Podcast, Kelly discusses what it’s like to have a truly loyal following, how Lilly Pulitzer approaches capsule collections and how influencer marketing is a natural extension of the brand. Below are excerpts from the conversation, edited for clarity.