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  • A look inside W Magazine’s winning digital strategy

    In the past year, W Magazine has grown its digital team from four to 16 people, with a focus on creating specific content not only for its website, but social platforms like Instagram and Facebook. With more than half of its website traffic coming through mobile, its publisher and chief...

  • Why emerging streetwear companies are operating solely on social media

    A select group of smaller, under-the-radar brands are thriving by conducting business exclusively on social media platforms, sans buzzy product drops or flashy media stories. Rather than launch full seasonal collections in-store, these emerging companies debut their limited-edition items through Instagram posts or Facebook groups.

  • For a new CFDA effort, alice + olivia channels its inner Basquiat

    Fostering emerging talent has been an ongoing initiative of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and now its efforts include a collaboration between alice + olivia and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

  • Style.com hits challenges as it prepares its U.S. launch

    Upon shutting down Style.com in 2015, the solution was to revamp the site as an e-commerce venture, an effort that has been riddled with challenges -- namely a slow rollout in the U.S. and the lack of luxury brand support.

  • ThirdLove CEO Heidi Zak: Retailers like to stick with what they know

    Bra shopping is about to get more interesting. A swathe of retailers are in the space, trying to take a piece of the $100 billion bra market that continues to be dominated by Victoria’s Secret. One of them is ThirdLove, a company founder by Heidi Zak, who started the company...

  • DVF, Mara Hoffman sign on for sustainable capsule collection

    High end fashion brands such as Diane Von Furstenberg and Veronica Beard have teamed up to create a capsule collection with sustainable textile company, Piece & Co, to be sold on online retailer, Shopbop. It's a different approach to becoming a more sustainable industry, when it's ranked the world's second...

  • On the Glossy Podcast: Timo Weiland and Steven Kolb

    Steven Kolb of the CFDA and designer Timo Weiland discuss designer burnout on the Glossy Podcast. So many people entering the industry don’t really understand design, said Kolb. “It’s this notion that if you like fashion you become a creative director,” he said.

  • Orchard Mile’s strategy for standing out among e-commerce platforms

    With the online retail market valued at $423 billion, more online marketplaces have been popping up, hoping to take a bigger share of the pie. Orchard Mile, a luxury online market place, is using data insights, great customer service and a carefully curated selection of brands to stand out to...

  • How Lyst plans to drive people into brick-and-mortars

    Lyst head of partnerships Jenny Cossons joins the Glossy Podcast. Cossons said the biggest surprise to her in the last decade has been how digital moved from being the “poor cousin” inside fashion brands and publishers to being a central force in decisions -- but brands remain hesitant to get...

  • Gucci e-commerce drives ‘exceptional growth’ for Kering

    Gucci experienced a 17 percent sales increase in the third quarter of 2016, with 50 percent of the uptick coming from e-commerce, the first time Gucci has experienced a double digit percentage sales increase since 2012.

  • Salvatore Ferragamo launches US e-commerce venture

    The Italian retailer announced yesterday that it is offering its women's fall and winter collection online to the U.S. market, after formerly selling only select accessories and footwear on its website. The brand dedicated a section of its site to “shop the look” of model Rose Gilroy, featured in a...

  • Mini-me: The rise of luxury childrenswear

    Luxury designers like Michelle Smith of Milly are increasingly launching fashion lines for pint-sized clientele in recent years, reflected in the series of tots dominating the runways at fashion week and infiltrating the social media feeds of designers like Marc Jacobs.