‘We’ve had retailers knocking on our door’: How wholesale partnerships opened the door for Vagabond’s US expansion Last week, Sweden-based shoe brand Vagabond Shoemakers made its official e-commerce debut in the U.S., after seeing strong results through wholesale partnerships with Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters. The brand's existing website was updated to accommodate U.S. shoppers.
L’Oreal bets on Hair.com as its e-commerce home for its hair-care brands L’Oréal is ramping up its e-commerce focus for its professional hair-care brands. Beginning Tuesday, all of L'Oréal's professional brands will be sold through a single e-commerce platform, Hair.com, as a way to drive sales to the category and make it easier for customers to shop for L'Oréal products.
The unlimited business model in the clothing rental market shows strain In industries like fitness and film, the unlimited model has proven difficult to master. The same goes for the clothing rental space, as Rent the Runway is learning firsthand.
As fellow fast-fashion brands falter, Nasty Gal sees continued growth through influencer partnerships While companies from Forever 21 to H&M are faltering, Nasty Gal has seen its revenue grow, driven by success in the U.S. market, the brand said on its earnings call on Wednesday. That local growth is thanks, in part, to Nasty Gal's focus on marketing and influencer collaborations.
Inside Shinola’s plan to fuel growth through licensing product and expediting speed to market Eight years after launching as a watch brand, Shinola is ready to ramp up its growth.
‘Our goal is the be the Apple of manufacturing’: LLABB looks to update handbag production The brand, which officially launched on Monday, is using proprietary AI-enabled software, while also training employees as master craftspeople to produce quality, customizable bags in a fraction of the time. The technology accelerates product production and ships products to customers within 48 hours of placing an orders. Eventually, LLABB plans...
‘Retail without technology is not going to work’: Ruti is using facial recognition technology in stores to boost sales A customer walking into Ruti's new flagship store that opens in New York City next week might be greeted by a sales associate with a seeming photographic memory of her size, past purchases and more. The tech behind the recall: facial recognition.
How fashion brand The Range cherry-picked wholesale partners to fuel growth In the age of the direct-to-consumer brand, many including Thinx, Dagne Dover and Caraa have started to slowly expand into wholesale partnerships as a way to grow brand awareness and drive sales. For women's ready-to-wear brand The Range, establishing wholesale partnerships has been key to growing the brand. The co-founders made multiple...
Eloquii tapped Refinery29 readers to create a new product collection Plus-size clothing brand Eloquii has a new 27-piece collection dropping online and in stores today, created in partnership with Refinery29 but inspired by data collected from 1,000-plus Refinery29 readers.