Fashion Briefing: Fashion’s emerging founder-investors are mega-influencers OG fashion Instagrammers Danielle Bernstein and Rocky Barnes are building empires and, at the same time, growing their influence beyond the industry.
Fashion Briefing: Brands are padding product inventories with used options ahead of the holidays With widespread supply chain issues threatening their holiday product selections and sales, brands are bulking up their inventories with used versions of their popular styles.
Kreyol Essence’s Yve-Car Momperousse on creating a hair-care brand that’s also a ‘social impact business’ For many people, a bad hair day would result in a few shed tears and some variation of a head covering. However in the case of Yve-Car Momperousse, CEO and co-founder of Kreyol Essence, a beauty brand specializing in natural hair-care and skin-care products from Haiti, what started as a...
Fashion Briefing: How fashion consumers are prioritizing style, price and sustainability Based on the media soundbites alone, one would owe the recent resale boom to the rise of the eco-conscious consumer. The resounding message: Since the start of the pandemic, shoppers have taken more care to consider their purchase choices. As a result, they’re foregoing supporting the primary market, in favor...
‘You can only have so much control’: How brands are navigating shipping delays On Day 1 of Glossy’s Future of Fashion Summit (October 4-6), executives from fashion brands met for a town hall discussion on the current challenges they’re facing and the strategies they’re using to navigate them. Shipping delays and rising material costs stood out as their main pain points. Ahead, a...
Fashion Briefing: Brands look to ‘fashion hub’ SoHo as pandemic relaunch pad Fifty-nine-year-old luxury knitwear brand St. John is making a concerted effort to reach a younger shopper base. Its game plan: expanding its versatile clothing assortment, offering more affordable products via accessories and opening a pop-up in NYC’s trendy SoHo neighborhood.
Fashion Briefing: Fashion embraces gaming and the direct-to-avatar model As fashion and the metaverse come together, it seems it’s only a matter of time before brands bring gaming concepts into the IRL world via their physical stores.
Week in Review: Balenciaga x Fortnite, LFW and Vestiaire Collective’s mega-valuation Introducing Glossy's "Week in Review" podcast, where editor-in-chief Jill Manoff and fashion reporter Danny Parisi discuss the week's need-to-know fashion news, launches and events. This week, that includes the Balenciaga x Fortnite partnership, the London Fashion Week business trends and the latest funding mega-round to hit the luxury resale space.
Fashion Briefing: Among fashion retailers, differentiated business models are a dying breed As retailers evolve to compete, they’re infringing on the territory of one-time industry disruptors. Now, those with formerly innovative business models are expanding their horizons.