At an event touting the sustainability efforts of luxury giant LVMH, the group’s chairman and CEO, Bernard Arnault, criticized teenaged environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
When sneaker brands introduce a new design or technology, they’ll often find ways to mix it into different products across their range. They splice it into older styles, helping to reinvigorate them, or blend two new products together in a hybrid, drawing from the ongoing excitement around each. Results can vary, but overall the strategy lets brands get maximum return on their innovation.
The eye could hardly avoid it as Lady Brenda Hale, president of the UK supreme court, delivered the verdict that British prime minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully in proroguing, or suspending, Parliament for five weeks. On her right shoulder, catching the light against her dark top, was a large, crystal-covered spider.
Allbirds cofounder and co-CEO Joey Zwillinger had some words for Amazon after it recently began selling a near-replica of the company’s wool sneakers under one of its own brands.
Fashion brands have a new watchdog to look out for: their own models.
Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, home to the most expensive shopping street in the world in 2018, is becoming littered with empty storefronts as three months of pro-democracy protests compound a retail slowdown in the city from earlier in the year.
Is the US headed toward a recession? It depends on who you ask. But there are enough warning signs that many economists think a recession is likely by 2021—bad news for America’s already-ailing retailers.
Walk into the running section of any sneaker shop and you will find an astounding assortment of petroleum-derived plastics in various forms, such as polyester, thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), and ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA).
In a rally at New York’s Washington Square Park that drew thousands, Elizabeth Warren began a speech about corruption in current American politics by recalling a horrific fire at a garment factory more than a century ago.
Madewell has come a long way since Mickey Drexler bought the name of the decades-old brand in 2003 and later agreed to lease it to J.Crew, where he was CEO, for $1 a year. J.Crew ultimately absorbed the company, launched it as a standalone label selling high-quality denim, and watched sales take off as Madewell became a destination for young, cool women.
MoviePass is shutting down, and as of now, looks set to disappear altogether.
2019 has been brutal so far for America’s brick-and-mortar retailers. BDO, a tax and financial advisory firm, counted more than 7,200 announced store closures (pdf) in the first half of the year, a pace previously unseen. The majority of closings are happening in clothing and footwear, mainly due to bankruptcies and companies downsizing their store footprints.
The cries are growing louder for fashion to reduce its huge environmental impact, but so far criticism has mostly focused on supply chains, where most of fashion’s emissions, resource use, and pollution happen. On the runway, it’s business as usual.
Despite becoming one of the world’s most successful fashion brands by being faster and more responsive to shoppers than most of its competitors, Zara dragged its feet joining shoppers online. It wasn’t until 2010 that the company finally launched e-commerce—a decade after (paywall) its online rival ASOS got running. Even then, it was a bit slow rolling it out beyond its core markets.
Quartz’s fashion reporter Marc Bain and managing editor Kira Bindrim discuss the future of fashion weeks as New York’s fashion week gets underway.
Before there was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Ike Turner, Bill Haley, or Little Richard, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Fashion shows ain’t what they used to be.
Anheuser-Busch—the beer monster behind brands such as Budweiser, Michelob, Stella Artois, and many others—will have to defend itself against claims by Patagonia that it misappropriated the outdoor company’s brand, a federal judge has ruled.
Pop star Ariana Grande is suing Forever 21 and its beauty brand, Riley Rose, over what her legal team claims is “a desperate attempt to stay relevant and profitable.”
Hong Kong is one of the top shopping destinations in the world, a dense cluster of malls where locals, mainland Chinese, and tourists from all over travel to browse and buy fashion, jewelry, electronics, cosmetics, and more. In the hyper-frenetic shopping district of Causeway Bay, where signs flash the logos of major international brands and luxury labels draw in wealthy clientele, rents on the main drag were the most expensive in the world in 2018, topping New York’s Fifth Avenue and London’s New Bond Street.
On its face, it looks bad. In the ad Dior tweeted out today for its new fragrance, the camera pans around a dramatic scene of a Native American dancer in full dress on a cliff top—seemingly a textbook example of the sort of cultural appropriation for which fashion brands have been excoriated. To make matters worse, the clip cuts to a black frame with the name of the fragrance: Sauvage, a mere letter away from the epithet Europeans used for the indigenous peoples on the American continent.
People clearing land for cattle ranches are likely the culprits behind the devastating fires burning large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. These ranches don’t just produce Brazil’s beef. They’re also a source of the country’s valuable leather exports.
Savage x Fenty, the lingerie line by singer Rihanna, is quite good at signing shoppers up for a $50-per-month “Xtra VIP” membership on its e-commerce site. The catch is that many of those shoppers don’t know that they’re signing up.
Head up to the second floor of Puma’s first-ever North American flagship store and one of the sights sure to catch your eye is a pair of sleek cockpits mounted on hydraulics. In front of them looms a large screen underlined by multiple smaller screens. Just behind on a stand are an iPad and a panel beckoning, “Scan your race ticket here.”
