The Long View | When Computers Know How You Feel
CAMBRIDGE, United States — Recent advances in neuroscience reveal that emotions are at the very core of human decision-making. Rather than cognitive thought, emotion is what fundamentally drives the...
View ArticleAre Blockbuster Museum Shows Helping or Hurting Smaller Fashion Exhibitions?
NEW YORK, United States — It was the legendary Diana Vreeland, former American Vogue editor and special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute from 1973 to 1987, who said successful...
View ArticleThe Gatekeepers Who Hold the Keys to Japanese Fashion
TOKYO, Japan — All it takes is 24 mindboggling hours in Tokyo’s retail jungle before the penny drops. As seen through the eyes of an eager international shopper, the city certainly surpasses itself as...
View ArticleLondon Collections: Men | If You Build It, They Will Come — But Will They Buy?
LONDON, United Kingdom — Tomorrow, at 5pm, London Collections: Men will enter its third season. In one year Dylan Jones, editor of GQ (UK) and chair of London Collections: Men, with strong support from...
View ArticleSouth Asian American Designers with Strong Ties to Home Make Their Mark
NEW YORK, United States — Amongst a rapidly rising crop of New York-based Asian American designers, including bold-faced names like Jason Wu, Alexander Wang and Phillip Lim, is a subset of design...
View ArticleApple-like Ecosystems for Luxury Brands?
LONDON, United Kingdom — It’s often said that Apple has applied the rules of fashion to the marketing of its popular iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. But luxury brands also have much to learn from the...
View ArticleA Wave of Men’s Only Flagships
LONDON, United States — A glamorous Kate Moss stares lasciviously from a framed photograph on the wall, while chairs upholstered in rich brocade evoke an 18th-century Italian salon. One floor below, an...
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Market Pulse | After the Age of Abundance
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) lost 4.5 percent in June, doing a little worse than the MSCI World Index (“MSCI”) which also lost ground. Sales of luxury goods are slowing...
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The Rise of the Fashion Sweatshirt
NEW YORK, United States — Once reserved for the gym and lazy weekends, the humble sweatshirt has emerged as a high fashion hero piece for both men and women, regularly appearing on top tier runways and...
View ArticleHow Creatures of the Wind Found Their Ideal Investor
NEW YORK, United States — For several seasons, between 2008 and 2012, Shane Gabier and Chris Peters weren’t sure if their fledgling fashion label, Creatures of the Wind, would survive. “We were...
View ArticleWheels of Fortune
LONDON, United Kingdom — When this reporter arrived at the headquarters of cycle apparel brand Rapha, located in a quiet street in Kentish Town, their public relations officer arrived at the door...
View ArticleHow Mykita Got to Manhattan
NEW YORK, United States — Here in New York, light and space artist James Turrell’s graded cone of colour (currently on view uptown, in the rotunda of the Guggenheim museum) is on just about everyone’s...
View ArticleDissecting Fashion’s Deal Frenzy
NEW YORK, United States — In the last two years, Prada, Salvatore Ferragamo, Brunello Cucinelli and Michael Kors have all launched initial public offerings, raising billions of dollars in capital by...
View ArticleStripped Bare: Brands Move Toward Transparency and Traceability
LONDON, United Kingdom — Only a few years ago, someone like Bruno Pieters would have been called a stargazing idealist or a charismatic fanatic. Opinions would have varied, but consensus could have...
View ArticleThe Enduring Appeal of Pajama Dressing
NEW YORK, United States — Not long ago, the practice of wearing pajamas during the day was largely confined to college campuses or the exceptional lifestyles of Hugh Hefner and Julian Schnabel. No...
View ArticleMikael Schiller on Acne’s Unexpected Journey
LONDON, United Kingdom — Alongside a thriving wholesale business that ships to 650 global accounts, severely cool Swedish apparel company Acne Studios has grown its network of directly owned and...
View ArticleOlfactive Branding: Retail’s Fragrant Frontier
LONDON, United Kingdom — Bread just out of the oven; freshly cut grass; roasting coffee beans: these are smells often used to entice house buyers. In the last few years, fashion retailers have become...
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Market Pulse | Making a Comeback
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) gained 4.5 percent in July, overperforming the MSCI World Index (“MSCI”) by over two percentage points. Market sentiment has turned back in...
View ArticleFashion Inflation: Why Are Prices Rising So Fast?
NEW YORK, United States — It’s easy to find a nice-looking pair of shoes for $40 these days, and even easier to find a trendy $40 dress. But while “fast fashion” prices are so light on the wallet they...
View ArticleHow the Trampery is Adapting the Tech Sector’s Shared Workspace Formula For...
LONDON, United Kingdom — Mare Street will never win a beauty contest. Quite the contrary, in fact. When the East End thoroughfare that connects Bethnal Green and Hackney Central comes up in...
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