Results are in, and it's bleak: Department stores are missing investor expectations and watching sales drop across the board. To regroup, company-wide strategies are being introduced to speed up processes, use physical stores to their advantage and cut back on promotions.

After New York Fashion Week was relocated from Manhattan’s Lincoln Center to Spring Studios last year, fashion week goers have had to adjust to a new schedule and adopt a refined strategy for schlepping between shows.

Burberry is known as one the most digital-forward luxury brands, but at London's Fashion Week Monday, the brand is taking one step further and hosting a week long event around its show. The idea is to bring to life the inspiration behind the collection using theatrical performances, sculpting and painting...

Attention to every detail is what has made The Dreslyn a standout in today’s crowded market, where Amazon is the prevailing benchmark. Focused on catering to a specific shopper versus attracting the masses, the retailer is essentially the antithesis of a juggernaut — its recent, rapid growth notwithstanding.

Ross Bailey launched Appear Here -- which has raised $21 million and worked with brands from Nike to Givenchy -- in 2013. The site features a comprehensive listing of available pop-up spaces across London, Paris and New York City, and facilitates the rental process in the same vein as Airbnb....

Since launching her career as an outsider "from the back row," Amy Odell has been rising up the ranks of fashion media. Today, she's the editor of Cosmpolitan.com, where she coordinates content with Cosmo's print editor, leads Redbook.com and oversees Cosmopolitan's Snapchat Discover channel. Here's a typical day in her...

In an editorial this week, Tory Burch shared the reasons why she decided to establish November 8 a paid company holiday in an effort to increase voter turnout. Her op-ed comes on the heels of a venture led by the CFDA and Condé Nast to register voters through its #runwaytoregistration...

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

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.

The realm of wearable and in-store technology is in many ways ambitious. While some fledgling ideas are brought to fruition, others simply prove too futuristic to scale. Here's a look at four of the most notable fashion tech contraptions over the past few years and where they stand today.

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,...

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.