High-end brands are turning Texas into a fashion capital Brands have been drawn to Texas’ young, wealthy urban residents as well as the relative strength of its brick-and-mortar retail environment. Balmain is hosting its only Barbie-themed pop-up with Texas-based Neiman Marcus in Dallas this month, Gucci is set to open its first Austin store early next year, and Jonathan...
‘Allowance is paid in Robux’: How Abercrombie updated its kids’ line for a new generation With children’s fashion reaching $40 billion in sales in the U.S. last year, brands like Abercrombie & Fitch are upping their focus on perfecting their approach to the children’s category.
Week in Review: Yeezy Gap x Balenciaga, The RealReal annual report and Savage x Fenty stores This week, there was a flurry of news around Yeezy and Gap, including a new TV spot, a new product and the announcement of yet another collaborator -- "Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga" is set to roll out later this year. Also, data from The RealReal's annual consignment report shows...
Brands are launching mobile apps to alleviate supply chain issues In the last three months, brands including Muji, Grailed and Kenny Flowers, as well as retail platform NewStore, have put a new focus on mobile apps. Their reasons are manifold, but a common thread among these new apps is that they’re targeted at loyal customers and are used as a...
With Omicron surging in Europe, Italian-made brands are seeing new product delays Italy is responsible for a large amount of high-end fashion production, home to more than 14,000 textile manufacturers that together produce products worth $42 billion in value each year. With Omicron cases surging and the booster shot only just becoming available to locals at the beginning of December, brands have...
‘A cultural shift’: Luxury e-tailer Toward limits customer orders as a sustainability play On Monday Toward, a sustainability-focused online luxury retailer that launched in August 2021, introduced its own take on an educational sustainability initiative, in the form of an opt-in order limit. Customers, if they so choose, can have their annual number of orders limited to 12.
As Omicron forces more fashion show cancelations, NYFW designers weigh alternative formats In the last week, several major companies have canceled high-profile fashion shows that were planned for the month of January. More cancelations are rumored to be coming, all thanks to the uncertainty created by the spread of the Omicron variant.
The Omicron variant surge has thrown a wrench in retail’s recovery At the end of 2021, the U.S. surpassed 2 million new cases in one week for the first time, and cases continue to spread across North America. Some stores have temporarily closed, while others have limited their hours or instituted capacity restrictions to help stop the spread. Meanwhile, others that...
In 2021, brands finally went all in on resale 2021 was the year when crossovers between retail and resale finally took off. Resale platforms received hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from Kering and SoftBank, among others, and dozens of mainstream brands and retailers from Madewell to Farfetch launched their own resale programs.