Ssense Montreal, which opens Wednesday in the company’s homebase, doesn’t carry regular stock from any of the 200 brands it sells online. Instead, the store is organized into personal styling rooms, and customers who either download the site’s personal styling app or visit the store’s standalone website are directed to...
At Kering, Gucci’s long-lasting success has inspired a new innovation model that the company is planning to apply across its full stable of brands, including Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. With this model serving as a template, Kering has a more complete vision for how it will guide its...
In her 14-year modeling career, Martha Hunt has built up a portfolio that includes campaigns of Hugo Boss and Miu Miu, covers of international editions of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, music videos including Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” and fashion shows for brands like Louis Vuitton and Victoria's Secret. On a...
Despite beauty being a $445 billion industry, the guidelines on chemicals allowed in products are minuscule, and have gone largely unchanged since the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act was passed in 1938. But, thanks to a group of insiders who’ve made it their mission to repair the system, change is...
Frouke Bruinsma, G-Star's director of corporate responsibility, spoke with Glossy about how the demand for transparency has changed fashion for the better and why making the industry more sustainable must be a group effort.
Trower gave Glossy a rundown of an average workday, which included meeting over french fries at Fred’s, shopping the Estée Lauder company store and hitting a hair salon at 7:30 a.m.
Virgil Abloh’s appointment to artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear made for an exciting start of the week. Abloh is a reigning industry darling, and there’s no denying the positive, transformative effects a buzzy designer can have on an established brand.
Providing new accessibility to product isn’t the only way Instagram has affected fashion retail. This week, we spoke to three experts who said it’s also impacting what type of purchases shoppers make and where they shop offline.
With everyone wanting in on the $445 billion beauty industry, the space is becoming more dangerous for brands — not for the vast amount of product, but because differentiation is more difficult in a crowded market.