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Fashion has made progress on diversity, but still has a long way to go
Image from Tommy Hilfiger’s “Moving Forward Together” campaign for Fall/Winter 2020 – Photo: Tommy Hilfiger Building on research started...
Feb 2, 20211 min read


Supreme’s new owner says it won’t ‘mess it up’ and ruin the brand
Image courtesy of Supreme VF Corp. paid $2.1 billion for the New York streetwear king. Those wondering how VF Corp.’s $2.1 billion...
Jan 30, 20211 min read


Behind the HYPE: How the Louis Vuitton Monogram Became A Global Phenomenon
From Coco Chanel to Dapper Dan to Kanye West, the LV monogram owes its hype to a little help from high-profile friends. From the Lakers’...
Jan 30, 20211 min read


Levi’s Launches ‘Beauty of Becoming’ Series f/ Jaden Smith, Naomi Osaka, and More
The storied denim brand teamed up with filmmaker Oge Egbuonu on the new series, in which creatives and activists recount their personal...
Jan 29, 20211 min read


Challenging a Fatphobic Industry to Adapt
Writer and consultant Aja Barber has been five different dress sizes in two decades. Kenyan designer Anyango Mpinga says her body changes...
Jul 28, 20205 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


American Eagle Outfitters Launches New Slow Fashion Business ‘Unsubscribed’
American Eagle Outfitters is shifting from its typical fast fashion model with the launch of ‘Unsubscribed’, a new women’s apparel and...
Jul 1, 20202 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


Harris Reed Is Designing the Gender-Fluid Fashion of the Future, One Harry Styles Blouse at a Time
Minimalism often seizes designers in periods of uncertainty: when the fashion industry is on the ropes, say, or when a given designer...
Jun 27, 20204 min read


Department Stores Are Dying. Could Artificial Intelligence Replace Them?
The Yes is a shopping app that uses AI to give you all the variety of a department store with none of the headaches. Department stores...
May 26, 20205 min read
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