It’s been a while, but Gucci’s revenue is growing again. Kering, the luxury group that owns Gucci, Saint Laurent, and other high-end labels, reported that Gucci’s comparable sales were up 4.6% for the second quarter in its earnings report yesterday (July 27).
Amazon’s growth has been astounding. Last week, it hit a major milestone when it passed retail giant Walmart in market value. It got to this point by selling just about everything, but there’s a specific category Amazon is counting on to help sales continue booming: clothes.
Instagram has more than 300 million active users—roughly the population of the entire United States. And among them is a minuscule set of super-users who always seem to look better and live more photogenic lives than the rest of us.
Abercrombie & Fitch’s workplace “look policy” continues ticking people off. The American retailer of rumpled, California surf-prep is known for dictating what its employees can and can’t wear on the job. It’s even gone as far as to tell its workers how to do their hair, and not long ago its policy brought it all the way to the US Supreme Court, after it refused to hire a Muslim woman because her hijab didn’t meet company guidelines. (No surprise: Abercrombie lost.)
Before there was Michael Jordan, there was Chuck Taylor. The Indiana basketball star was the first to get his name on a pair of signature sneakers when Converse’s “Chuck Taylor” All Stars rolled out in 1917. A lot of things have changed since, but the basic construction of the Chuck Taylor isn’t one of them. Until now.
It’s been something of a magical time for Under Armour, and for the athletes it sponsors. And arguably, it’s getting a lot harder to separate these two things.
It’s exceedingly easy to buy knock-offs of European luxury brands. They’re so common people hardly pay them any mind. But their prevalence is actually a major problem, and it’s undermining Europe’s fashion industry.
Most sustainability efforts by fashion brands tend to focus on cleaning up their supply chains. These endeavors are certainly positive, but that’s just the first part of a garment’s life cycle. The second part only begins after a customer purchases the garment, and often it ends in a landfill. In fact, about 10.5 million tons of clothing head to landfills in the US each year.
Beware, Americans: Italian fashion is coming for your wallet.
Donald Trump is a hugely polarizing figure. While he repels plenty of people, he continues to attract others.
Most of the time laser pointers, those dreaded tools of classrooms and conference rooms, seem relatively innocuous, if irritating. But the light from a laser can travel more than a mile, and when pointed through the plexiglass of a cockpit it can magnify into a blinding, vivid burst—the last thing one wants to see while piloting a plane full of passengers at hundreds of miles per hour.
Racial tension remains rife in South Carolina. Yesterday (July 18), members of the Ku Klux Klan clashed with a group called Black Educators for Justice with ties to the New Black Panther party outside the South Carolina state house.
Chinese social media was in a frenzy last week. The cause was an impassioned sex tape apparently shot in the fitting room of a Uniqlo clothing store in a popular Beijing shopping mall and posted online.
Apparently if you want the support of the conservative base in the US, trashing Mexican immigrants is good, but trashing Republican Senator John McCain’s war record is not.
Clothes are more than just the cloth they’re made of. We often use them as symbols to reflect or hide who we are, including our gender identity. The point may be obvious, but it’s worth reiterating when considering the dress Caitlyn Jenner wore to accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPY Awards on July 15.
The official relaunch of a men’s fashion week in New York has wrapped. It’s too early to tell whether the week will serve its intended purpose: to generate attention and sales, and generally make life simpler for New York’s menswear designers in the long term.
For most people, Uniqlo is where you go to get cheap socks and basics. For one couple, it’s apparently where they went for a quickie.
In American Apparel’s ongoing legal saga, this time it’s Dov Charney, the company’s founder and fired CEO, who’s under attack.
This week marks the official relaunch of a dedicated men’s fashion week in New York. As Samantha Bee, a former Daily Show correspondent and soon-to-be host of her own show, sees it, it’s a big step toward gender equality in fashion.
Most people have the luxury of not having to think about the complex motor skills required to put on and tie their shoes in the morning. But for people with disabilities that impair their hands, including those with cerebral palsy or who have suffered strokes, that task can pose major challenges.
The official relaunch of a dedicated men’s fashion week in New York kicks off in earnest today, as brands including Thom Browne, Public School, Robert Geller, and Calvin Klein Collection show off their spring-summer 2016 collections.
The couture shows, currently underway in Paris, could be said to represent the pinnacle of femininity in fashion. Couture is about women, and the most fanciful, elaborately constructed gowns a designer can conjure to clothe them. There are no couture men’s shows.
Finding yourself a Donald Trump-branded shirt and tie had already gotten more difficult, since Macy’s, his clothing line’s biggest seller, recently dumped it.
As an industry, fashion isn’t known for its diversity. The models booking work are overwhelmingly white—and apparently the challenges facing non-white models don’t end even when they do get the job.
