At New York Fashion Week Spring 2024, designer collections largely fell into one of two buckets: pragmatic or fantastical, decidedly practical or intentionally whimsical. But all designers seemed to agree on a heightened focus on commercial viability as the season’s dominant theme.
In this Fashion Month edition of the Glossy Podcast, we sit down with Willa Bennett, who joined fashion and media company Highsnobiety as its editor-in-chief in 2022. Highsnobiety had a presence at New York Fashion Week with a three-day “Neu York” pop-up shop and various on-site events. Bennett talks about...
In this Fashion Month edition of the Glossy Podcast, we sit down with Rosario Dawson and Abrima Erwiah, founders of Studio 189, the 10-year-old fashion brand and social enterprise that hosted a runway show on Sunday. Dawson and Erwiah discuss how they’ve built and grown a company with purpose, and...
To a heightened extent and with a new focus on accessibility, luxury brands are building out the story they’re telling, leveraging channels from Spotify to stores to fashion week runways.
In this Fashion Month edition of the Glossy Podcast, we sit down with emerging designer Jackson Wiederhoeft, whose training includes Parsons School of Design and three years under Thom Browne. Like Thom Browne’s, Wiederhoeft's collections are decidedly theatrical, whimsical and, therefore, perfectly suited to a runway. He discusses the importance...
In this podcast series, running throughout Fashion Month Spring 2024, Glossy and influential leaders are breaking down the evolution of the experiential event, as driven by technology. First up is Lauren Wilson, founder and CEO of Dora Maar. Along with sharing New York Fashion Week's importance to her evolving business,...
Kilgore sold her first business, Bliss Spa, to LVMH in 1999. That was before starting the "masstige" beauty brand Soap & Glory, which she sold to Walgreens Boots Alliance in 2011. In the years since, she's launched Soaper Duper, Beauty Pie and FitFlop, the latter of which she described as...
With the concept of “quiet luxury” now mainstream, a new wave of brands with $600 sneakers and $1,200 handbags is emerging. Their bet is that luxury consumers are itching for styles less basic.
As founder and creative director Rebecca Hessel Cohen describes on this week's episode of the Glossy Podcast, her growth strategy for LoveShackFancy includes "taking its iconic prints, colors and sensibility, and bringing it to life in different categories, price points and markets."