- How Tiffany is reaching out to Chinese millennials on Tmall
In China, Tmall’s luxury customers have gotten first access to Tiffany & Co.’s Paper Flowers collection, shopping the assortment in a virtual pop-up two weeks before it goes on sale in the brand’s brick-and-mortar stores on September 1.
- Michael Kors’ new smartwatch targets the Chinese customer
The launch comes less than a week after the brand reported that revenue for its Michael Kors Licensing business, which houses the watch category through a licensing agreement with Fossil, fell by 5 percent. The goal is that, by pushing its smartwatch category and updating its fashion watch line, the...
- Rachel Zoe’s first brick-and-mortar store will focus on styling, not just sales
The store is set to open this September in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, where it will be part of a new retail development from Caruso, the real estate firm behind LA’s well-known shopping destination The Grove, where Rachel Zoe previously held a pop-up store. Right now, the...
- The Glossy Report: Summer 2018
Each quarter, the Glossy team explores key themes and topics from the rapidly evolving beauty and fashion industries and breaks them down for you. In this report, we looked at the changing face of retail and the top five trends shaping the industry.
- How Fancy.com stocked its first store from its 250,000-item online marketplace
Fancy’s New York store opened on Nolita's Bond Street on Sunday, with limited-edition AS Roma Football Club tees and exclusive Nike Air Force 1 and Nike Air Max 1 sneakers designed with the hip-hop collective ASAP Mob. The rest of the store is categorized into fashion and accessories, home and...
- Five things every retail executive should know
Glossy+ members stay ahead of the top trends in the rapidly evolving fashion and beauty industries with access to unlimited articles, invitations to exclusive member events, and insights from quarterly reports. And in our most recent report, the Glossy team explored the changing face of retail and looked at five trends shaping...
- How Michael Kors turned around its wholesale business in under 2 years
Two years after CEO John Idol announced the brand would be reducing the amount of inventory it shipped to its retail partners and opting out of broad retailer promotional events, wholesale performance is turning around. The brand’s now-lightened inventory load at department stores like Macy’s and Nordstrom is selling out,...
- Neighborhood Goods wants to be the department store for DTC brands
As the direct-to-consumer brand space matures, there’s a growing opportunity for the DTC department store. Neighborhood Goods, which raised nearly $6 million in May in an investment round led by Forerunner Ventures, will carry around 15 digitally native brands in its first store, set to open this fall in Plano,...
- How Reformation communicates sustainability messages in its email marketing
Reformation formulates its email strategy by balancing brand-, mission- and commercial-driven messaging. It takes data into consideration, to an extent, but maintaining a healthy mix in messaging is more gut-driven, since relying on data alone would lead to every email promoting product. To align mission into its marketing messages, Reformation’s...