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Social Sustainability, Overstock And ‘Greenwashing’: How COVID-19 Is Changing The Fashion Industry
As Fashion Revolution Week kicks off with the publishing of their fifth Fashion Transparency Index, part 3 in this industry insiders...
Apr 29, 202011 min read


50 Years of Earth Day: What’s Better Today, and What’s Worse
Here are 10 big environmental victories — and 10 big failures. Earth Day turns 50 today. The original wave of coast-to-coast...
Apr 29, 202018 min read


Short Takes: The Future of Fashion in Three Words
Sustainability leaders Marci Zaroff, Livia Firth, Lauren Singer, Dominique Drakeford and more answer one simple question. WWD asked its...
Apr 27, 20202 min read


Fashion: Creating Unique Content, Not Clothes, As A Morale Booster During The Covid-19 Pandemic
Fashion houses have begun reaching out to their massive global communities via social media to encourage creativity at home, healthy...
Apr 4, 20203 min read


Casper, the Mattress Start-Up, Goes Through With Lackluster I.P.O.
The company became the latest in a string of money-losing outfits that have received a cool greeting by Wall Street investors. SAN...
Feb 19, 20203 min read


Vintage, Faux And Real: Navigating Fur In Fashion In An Age Of Sustainability
How far should we adjust our anti-fur attitudes when considering the planet? Over the past 50 years, our attitude towards using fur in...
Feb 5, 20207 min read


DTC brands’ Growth-at-all-costs Strategy Is Stunting Product Development
Colin Hunter, co-founder of bespoke menswear brand Alton Lane, has spent over a year planning the brand’s launch into denim, a new...
Jan 24, 20201 min read


Latinas In Streetwear Discuss Breaking Stereotypes, Influence, And Longevity
The self-made trailblazers talk about their experience in the industry. As streetwear continues to gain more exposure, the irony of the...
Jan 23, 20207 min read


Inside the Williamsburg penthouse made for Instagram influencers
In a luxury building near the South Williamsburg waterfront, there’s an immaculately designed three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath...
Jan 22, 20204 min read


5 Things to Know About Sabyasachi, the Indian Designer Behind the Latest H&M Collab
This collaboration marks the first time the Swedish retailer has worked with an Indian designer. After recent collaborations with Italian...
Jan 22, 20205 min read


A Japanese Rock Star — and Real Estate Mogul — Talks Retail, Strategy
Paul Smith may not have set out to conquer the world — or even Nottingham — when he started his fashion business, but he went much...
Jan 17, 20201 min read


Virgil Abloh: Streetwear? It’s definitely gonna die
The artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear on the last ten years – and the next Deep fakes, influencers, viral fashion – we live in...
Jan 13, 20208 min read


Why the Telfar Shopping Bag Is This Decade’s Most Important Accessory
The designer may have been snubbed for Accessory Designer of the Year, but this simple shopper is fashion history in the making. What...
Jan 13, 20207 min read


H&M Launches Billie Eilish Merch Collection Made Using Sustainably-Sourced Materials
Eilish’s signature oversized style makes headlines once again. Entering her fourth year on the music scene, 18-year-old Billie Eilish is...
Jan 8, 20202 min read


Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush
The city is home to a land rush of “collab houses,” where the content creators are getting younger and younger. LOS ANGELES — Hype House,...
Jan 7, 20209 min read


Why E-Sports Are Emerging As Fashion’s Go-To Cultural Reference
In 2019, Tyler Blevins, better known as the gaming superstar Ninja, became the first professional video game player to design his own...
Jan 6, 20203 min read


The Demand For Genderless Kids Apparel Is On The Rise
With millennials and Gen Z entering into parenthood, genderless clothing for babies and kids under the age of 12 is on the rise. “More...
Jan 1, 20203 min read


U.N. ‘Texpertise’ Event Looks at Fashion’s Sustainable Development Goals
At a special event held at the United Nations last week, the Texpertise Network of Messe Frankfurt, the Conscious Fashion Campaign and...
Dec 31, 20191 min read


The Incredible Shrinking Wallet
A once-essential leather good reshapes, reduces and will possibly soon be redundant. As co-owner of Billykirk, a leather goods brand...
Dec 31, 20195 min read


What Does Being Best Dressed Mean?
And who gets to say? As the latest list of lauded style-setters arrives, it may be time to say goodbye to the whole concept. This...
Dec 31, 20196 min read
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