Online resellers test physical retail with localized products for impulse shoppers Fashionphile and ThredUp are experimenting more with physical channels, and as resale makes the jump to back to IRL, traditional retailers are finding more ways to incorporate the model inside their own walls.
‘We’re back on offense’: Ralph Lauren bolstered by strong North American wholesale recovery North American revenue was up more than 300% from the previous year, outstripping any other region. In another surprise, it was wholesale that drove the most sales. North American wholesale revenue grew from $23 million last year to $250 million this year.
The newly rebranded LTK launches self-service influencer portal The platform acts as a portal for brands to connect with more than 150,000 influencers directly. LTK bills the portal as a one-stop influencer shop where brands can price, cast and execute their influencer campaigns, as well as see more than 10 years of retail and influencer data collected by...
Olympic athletes are posting on TikTok and bringing fashion brands along for the ride In 2018, during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, TikTok had only just been introduced to the U.S. a year before. It hadn’t caught on as the sensation it is now, growing nearly 800% in monthly active users from 2018 to 2020. Throughout the last two weeks, Olympic athletes like Ilona...
Who What Wear launches its first DTC fashion brand On August 5, Who What Wear will launch Who What Wear Collection, a new DTC fashion brand with Kat Collings as creative director and Brianna Mobrem as president. The brand will work on quarterly collections, released in three monthly drops.
The benefits and pitfalls of using younger models to target Gen-Z customers There’s a simple way to bring in Gen Z customers, according to Guido Campello and Sapna Palep, co-CEOs of lingerie brand Journelle: Show styles being worn by people who look like them.
Fabletics is getting into resale Fabletics is joining the growing list of fashion brands that is bringing resale in-house, as it launches a new program with ThredUp.
With office life coming back, activewear brands are pivoting to ‘workleisure’ Activewear brands dealing with the return to “normal” by producing office-ready clothes in comfortable, performance fabrics.
Can fashion rental’s recovery carry Rent the Runway to a successful IPO? The move comes at an interesting time for Rent the Runway. Pre-pandemic, the company was riding high. It was valued at over $1 billion in 2019 and had a solid hold on the fashion rental market. But the company lost some of its valuation, dropping down to $750 million due...