Fashion companies are continuing to raise prices, even as luxury consumers seek out discounts. At the same time, luxury retailers catering to wealthy customers are newly showing mixed results. Consultants are now urging fashion leaders to increasingly leverage data when making price hikes to best ensure alignment with consumer demand. 

A lot has changed for Summersalt since 2017, when it launched as an online-only, perfect-fit swimsuit brand and quickly gained popularity on Instagram. For starters, it has since expanded to product categories including sleepwear, activewear and intimates, Plus, it now operates stores, on top of its e-commerce site, allowing customers...

The latest acquisition by LVMH's Thélios, of California-based eyewear brand Barton Perreira, reflects a focus on gateway luxury products, growing luxury categories, “quiet luxury” and differentiation via product quality.

Six years after starting NYC-based Rowing Blazers with fashion industry veteran David Rosenzweig, designer Jack Carlson is seeing his dreams for the preppy apparel brand come true. Rowing Blazers’ three biggest collaborations to date, in terms of “moving the needle,” rolled out this year, he said. Among them was a...

Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams is renowned for his work on such acclaimed movies as “Life, Animated,” “God Loves Uganda,” “Traveling While Black” and “The Apollo.” He was also the first Black director to win an Academy Award, in 2010. With “The Super Models,” the Apple TV docuseries that debuted in...

Behind every style icon that has emerged in recent years, there’s likely a stylist. And that stylist is very likely Erin Walsh. Walsh, who describes her role as “a translator” and “a storyteller,” can be credited with the fashion glow-ups of celebrities including Anne Hathaway and, this year, Selena Gomez.

LoveShackFancy’s 10th year in business has proven pivotal. The contemporary fashion brand entered the beauty category, collaborated with Gap, opened its 17th store, invested in new executive hires and grew its direct-to-consumer sales to 70% of the business. Founder and creative director Rebecca Hessel Cohen said she owes her brand’s...

Colm Dillane wants to be the Andy Warhol of our time. Based on his accomplishments this year alone, the 32-year-old designer behind the 13-year-old KidSuper brand is bordering on icon status. In January, as Louis Vuitton’s first and only guest designer to date, he showed his fall 2023 menswear collection...

In August, Tapestry, Inc. announced its $8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings Limited, expanding its brand portfolio beyond Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman to also include Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo and Versace. The merger was led by Tapestry CEO Joanne C. Crevoiserat, who had only landed in her role...