Fashion designer Thakoon Panichgul is the latest designer to ditch wholesale and open his own store, and move to a direct to consumer model to take control of his own brand's story. “I want to bring back desire of fashion,” he said about creating supply and demand around collections. Now,...

Nisha Dua, a partner in BBG Ventures, knows that investing in women is not only important to driving gender parity, it's lucrative.

Designers have had a fraught relationship with high-profile athletic apparel as of late, particularly when asked to take their talents to the global scale in dressing the world's foremost athletes for events like Olympic Games.

As the rise of e-commerce continues to transform the retail space, brands are increasingly turning to technology to strengthen the appeal of in-store shopping. Case in point: the growing popularity of geofencing, which allows companies to target consumers with special deals or advertisements within designated virtual boundaries.

Designers, fashion and beauty brands are all quickly adopting Instagram's latest feature, Stories, which mirrors Snapchat's short video format that allows users to build short stories which then disappear after 24 hours. Fashion designers are using it to show off-the-cusp scenes in their daily lives.

While sharing footage from the runway can be a promotional boon tool for designers, it can also detract from the experience of the event itself and be disruptive for those in attendance. Etiquette experts talk about the best way to behave when it comes to using cell phones at the...

In fashion, pre-fall has long been an ill-defined season, full of summer and fall styles that are released over a several-months span. But the included collections are often designers' top money makers — and what's more, they work wonders to hold customers' attention.

Though a growing number of companies are delving into the world of 3-D printing and increasingly collaborating with consumers on personalized designs, the supposed environmental benefits of the technology remain to be seen.

Brand pop-ups, to be done properly, require more work and heavy lifting than simply turning on the lights — even if they are a more sensible investment than a flagship store.

So often at runway shows, everything is colorful — except the model herself. Instagram is trying to change that. The photo sharing app has launched #RunwayForAll, a week-long hashtag initiative on its massively popular account (163 million followers) showcasing diverse models who are “redefining industry standards.” Kicking off last Wednesday, the first model...

As fashion brands continue to delve into the world of chatbots, messaging platform Kik is offering a new capability for its own fashion and beauty chatbots to enhance the shopping experience.

Social and digital media is forcing luxury fashion brands to change the way they operate, sell products and design clothes, but some are doing so at an extremely slow pace. In this edition of Confessions, we talk to an employee of a luxury fashion house about what it's like to...