Looking at Simon's earnings and forecasts offers a good read on where retail in the U.S. is headed in the coming years. We've transcribed the company's fourth-quarter earnings call and annotated it with thoughts, comments, clarifications and links to relevant stories.

Refillable beauty faces a larger customer acquisition issue, given that refillable products tend to cost more at the onset and offer less expensive refills. Still, the conversation around refillable beauty products does not seem to be slowing down, which begs the question of how far it can go in making...

Though the cosmetic aesthetic market may not be experiencing the painful slowdown of makeup, companies across the space are being forced to innovate to ensure the summertime boom of treatments won't be a fleeting moment of success.

The company's new catalog and seller structure come at a time when more people are not only required to shop almost exclusively online but also where direct-sales companies are targeting people looking for supplemental income.

Even as closet clean-outs trend, resale companies are having a difficult time attracting sellers due to the logistical obstacle of getting pre-owned clothes from sellers’ homes to the processing facilities. To compensate, they're seeking products from brands, which -- as unsold stock mounts -- are more willing then ever to...

Retail sales are slumping, consumer demand for transparency is at an all-time high, and more people are craving human connection. In response, fashion designers including Nili Lotan, Daniella Kallmeyer and Johanna Ortiz have been leaning into their own expertise and influence: They’re personally offering up customer service, style advice and...

As DIY beauty surges, shoppers are become more confident in their at-home abilities. Now, brands that fall in tertiary categories, like hair extensions and eyelashes, are seeing a boom.

At launch, Choosy was trying to be more of a platform, selling lookalike pieces of popular styles at a fraction of the originals' cost. It didn't hold any inventory and instead took pre-orders for styles, which meant customers would sometimes wait three-plus weeks for a product to be delivered. Each...

For the latest episode of Leading From Home, Glossy’s Instagram Live series on how fashion and beauty executives are coping and communicating while away from the office, Emma Sandler spoke with Inge Theron, founder and creative director of FaceGym, which offers non-invasive facial toning via “exercise.” Theron, who logged on...

In-stores beauty testers may be long gone, but brands are experiencing newfound interest from customers online. Thus, the pressure for companies to figure out their digital sampling programs is greater than ever.

Since March, loungewear has boomed, workwear has struggled and designer fashion brands have closed up shop. The changes could read as temporary -- that is, for as long as people are dressing exclusively for the living room. But lockdown has given consumers more time to be thoughtful about the brands...

In the early aughts, Los Angeles-based American Apparel seemed to have it all, offering a heavy dose of sex appeal on top of its domestic production and palatable prices. Today, what’s left behind is just a shadow of the brand American Apparel used to be and what a generation of...