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Handbags… A Status Symbol of the Past?
No one needed a bag when we were stuck in lockdown. Will we ever embrace the accessory again? I feel it sometimes, like a phantom limb,...
Jul 28, 20205 min read


Consumers Think the Brands They Like Are the Most Sustainable
What makes a brand sustainable in the eyes of a consumer? Evidence from the Vogue Business Index survey of 8,400 luxury shoppers...
Jul 22, 20202 min read


How to Reach Customers Who Still Don’t Like Shopping for Clothes Online
Neiman Marcus had been planning a gradual rollout of its customer service app, called Connect, which allows employees to recommend...
Jul 15, 20205 min read


Gen Z Still Loves Fast Fashion, but Boohoo Investors are Spooked
Gen Z are often cited as the most sustainably minded generation. But for a large proportion of young consumers, it’s not easy to stop...
Jul 15, 20206 min read


London Fashion Week to Go Ahead With Physical Shows in September
The British Fashion Council (BFC) has announced that London Fashion Week will go ahead with physical shows in September. The official...
Jul 15, 20202 min read


Hood By Air Is Back, and It’s Ready to Radicalize Fashion
Fashion insiders have come to remember Hood By Air, which went on hiatus in 2017, as a savior of New York fashion that was way ahead of...
Jul 14, 20204 min read


Gen Z isn’t ready to rent clothes — yet
Liam Baines, 20, from Manchester shops regularly for second-hand clothes on Depop, but is uncertain when asked about renting clothes. “I...
Jul 8, 20205 min read


Websites Used to be Secondary to Stores. That Dynamic is Shifting.
Investing in online is now no longer a choice for fashion. At a time when most stores have been closed to traditional shoppers,...
Jul 8, 20205 min read


The Pandemic Is Rewriting the Rules of Retail
Retailers need to stop expecting business to return to “normal.” There’s no going back to how it was anytime soon. Even before the...
Jul 8, 20205 min read


Can Fashion Be Redeemed?
Luxury fashion’s love of hierarchies has never been subtle. Telling people what they should look like often also requires telling them...
Jul 8, 202010 min read


How Lululemon Built Athleisure’s Leading Brand
As most of the fashion world scrambled to survive an apocalyptic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, activewear label...
Jul 8, 20203 min read


Snapchat’s Shoppable Show
Snapchat’s newest feature combines shows with shopping as the brand looks to expand its e-commerce capabilities. Snapchat’s original...
Jul 8, 20202 min read


The North Face Launches Free Virtual Summer Camp Program
The North Face ‘Summer Base Camp’ is a two-week summer camp program offering a variety of free online experiences taught by the brand’s...
Jul 4, 20202 min read


Burberry’s Video Game Venture
Burberry’s TB monogram summer collection is going virtual. The luxury label created a new video game that lets characters dress up in its...
Jul 4, 20202 min read


The Real Lessons of Telfar, Kanye and the Gap
Late last week, when the embattled Gap brand announced, with great fanfare, that it was embarking on a 10-year partnership with Kanye...
Jul 1, 20205 min read


Virgil Abloh Designed Pop Smoke’s Album Cover. Now He’s Redesigning It.
“Hey Virgil we need new album art, they ain’t going for this bullshit,” 50 Cent said. In a now-deleted Instagram, the manager of the late...
Jul 1, 20204 min read


Sustainable Sleepwear Brand Talks Antibacterial, Antiviral Fabrics
In the past, antibacterial and antiviral fabric treatments were merely an “add-on” feature — but according to Dagsmejan, a sustainable...
Jul 1, 20205 min read


Lululemon to Buy Mirror, a Fitness Start-Up, for $500 Million
The athleisure company’s first acquisition is a bet on the future of fitness and a way to further tie into the lives of its customers....
Jun 30, 20203 min read


At the BET Awards, Putting Black Designers in the Spotlight
The red carpet didn’t exactly return. But fashion did. It wasn’t your usual awards show red carpet. There wasn’t, after all, a red...
Jun 30, 20204 min read


Meet Mowalola Ogunlesi, the British-Nigerian Designer Kanye West Hired to Lead the Yeezy Gap Design
Shortly after Gap confirmed it’s partnering with Kanye West on a Yeezy line that’s set to drop in the first half of 2021, 25-year-old...
Jun 30, 20205 min read
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