In July of last year, Guess partnered with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to completely revamp its retail strategy with an eye toward artificial intelligence. Now, just over half a year later, Guess is feeling just as confident about its AI ambitions.
Hatch is the latest DTC brand to go all in on physical retail. While the maternity brand opened a flagship store in 2017 in SoHo and another store in L.A. this year, founder Ariane Goldman is now planning on making an ambitious play toward rapidly expanding the brand’s physical retail...
J. Crew is debuting a new partnership with Habitat for Humanity buying back old pairs of jeans to be recycled into insulation material for housing. While J. Crew has made efforts towards denim recycling over the past few years, the brand is putting an increased focus on denim recycling by...
When the idea first began to catch on a few years ago, the concept of a temporary store that was doing something that you didn’t get at a normal store was enough to pique people’s interests. But now, you can’t walk one block in New York’s SoHo neighborhood without passing...
First held in 1972, Pitti Uomo, the biggest part of the larger Pitti Immagine event, has been a mainstay in men’s fashion for decades. But is Pitti Uomo still relevant, particularly in an era when the kinds of eye-catching imagery known to come out of the event can be found...
While Vetements is primarily known for its daring runway shows and avant-garde apparel offerings, the brand has recently spent time on its Instagram account promoting a different product: a phone case.
Outside of Canada Goose, Canada does not have many fashion brands that are household names. Fashion, especially high fashion, is dominated by the U.S. and countries in Europe that have been on top of the fashion world for decades. But Katrina Lainsbury is aiming to bring Canadian brands into focus...
Once, Lord & Taylor’s Fifth Avenue flagship store was a jewel in the crown of Hudson’s Bay Company, its parent company. In 2010, HBC invested $150 million in updating the store. Seven years later, Lord & Taylor’s received another $12 million renovation. Yet in just over a year of that...
Topshop, once one of the dominant fashion retailers in the U.K., has been hit with hard times. The company revealed a loss of close to $14 million in its most recent earnings report, and in October, owner Philip Green was outed as a serial sexual harasser, causing a PR nightmare...