Sackville's newest apparel collection debuting this week makes them part of a new wave of fashion-forward cannabis brands like Papers + Ink, Houseplant and Flower by Edie Parker.
At Milan Fashion Week, designers continued to push the sustainability conversation forward.
For people who strive and save to be able to afford a nice bag, even a modest price increase can make a one-time splurge an impossibility.
Telfar bags typically retail for $200-$500, far less than the other most highly-desired handbags from Chanel, Prada and Hermes. Price is often a major element of whether something is considered “luxury” or not, so how did Telfar get itself positioned among much more expensive brands?
This week, Zofia Zwieglinska reports back from her time at London Fashion Week, including how the death of Queen Elizabeth II impacted shows and what differences she saw between the approaches of designers showing at LFW, compared to NYFW.
Now, another piece of RTR’s profit-seeking plan has come into focus. Rent the Runway permanently shuttered all five of its physical stores in 2020. Now, the company is returning to physical retail by leveraging the Leap platform to host a temporary sample sale.
Brands are responding to these inventory challenges in a number of ways. The first, most obvious path is heavy discounting. URBN CEO Richard Hayne predicted that many brands across the industry, including his own, will have to rely on steep discounting to sell through their inventory.
When Ryan Vero took over as CEO of the jewelry brand Claire’s in 2019, he saw an opportunity. Claire’s operates thousands of its own stores, but significantly leveraging the Claire’s brand to sell its product in other stores had yet to be done.
All of Ye’s biggest fashion successes have been collaborations with larger entities. So what would a truly independent Yeezy brand look like?