Lauren Conrad's first maternity collection for her Kohl's-exclusive brand, LC Lauren Conrad, is the latest addition to a long list of category expansions and capsule collections the celebrity and the retailer have fleshed out since LC first launched in 2009.

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,...

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.

As rents continue to soar, the artist scene that dominated SoHo is increasingly fleeing, while luxury brands are shuttering storefronts. These shifts have made way for the rise of pop-ups, ephemeral experiential stores often used by emerging retailers to test out products and strategies.

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...

LaborVoices has developed a platform that collects anonymous employee feedback on working conditions at global factories. The program, which launched in Turkey — the eighth largest apparel exporter in the world — gives employees the opportunity to call in and provide answers to questions about wages, time off, fire safety, abuse,...

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.

Brands like Tommy Hilfiger are increasingly turning to visual product search technology, an emerging capability that allows anyone with a smartphone to take a picture of a product and instantly identify brand details, as well as connect to e-commerce sites.

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.

On Monday, apparel brand American Giant announced that it will start offering "non-athletic" leggings, following a number of fashion retailers who have dipped into the activewear category.

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...