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Joshua Schulman on Bergdorf Goodman’s Menswear Business, Recast and Re-Energised
NEW YORK, United States — Founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf and later owned and run by Edwin Goodman and his son Andrew, the iconic department store Bergdorf Goodman has long been a fixture of New...
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Pitti’s Peacocks and the Liberation of Men’s Style
FLORENCE, Italy — From the showy resplendence of medieval courts to Louis XIV’s kitten heels and Beau Brummell’s tailored Regency elegance, as in the animal kingdom, it’s the male of our species that...
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Toby Bateman on Mr Porter’s Mandate and Expanding into Fine Watches
LONDON, United Kingdom — Like Net-a-Porter, its sister site for women, pure play e-tailer Mr Porter has reimagined the luxury e-commerce experience for men, pioneering the integration of commerce and...
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Andrea Panconesi of Luisa Via Roma on Becoming a Global E-tailer
FLORENCE, Italy — Andrea Panconesi, chief executive of Luisa Via Roma, is the third apparel and accessories retailer in his family in as many generations and father to the fourth. His grandmother Luisa...
View ArticleCan Matteo Renzi Reignite the Italian Fashion System?
FLORENCE, Italy — Postcard perfect Italy, with its ochre sunsets, iconic architecture and gregarious people, does not reflect the very real challenges faced by the nation — and its fashion industry....
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L’Eclaireur’s Patrick Aramburu on the Parisian Retailer’s ‘Difficult’ Approach
PARIS, France — Armand Hadida has an uncanny eye for the designers who move fashion forward. In 1980, he opened the first L’Eclaireur store in a basement gallery on the Champs Élysées, becoming amongst...
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Stores Still Critical to Wooing Men, But Leaders Re-Wiring for Digital Age
LONDON, United Kingdom — In recent years, the growth of the men’s fashion market has outpaced that of womenswear, driven by factors like shifting workplace culture, the rise of new sports and...
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Santa Eulalia’s Luis Sans on Dressing Barcelonians for 171 Years
BARCELONA, Spain — On Barcelona’s Passeig de Gràcia, home to the city’s most luxurious stores, Santa Eulalia still makes an impact. Today, the high-end store, founded in 1843, is situated once again in...
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Market Pulse | Currency Headwinds Keep Blowing
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Savigny Luxury Index (“SLI”) lost some ground with a 2.2 percent fall over the month as adverse foreign exchange movements continue to weigh on the luxury sector’s growth,...
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Along the Ugly Path to Beautiful Jewellery
LONDON, United Kingdom — “Producing one single gold ring can generate up to 20 tonnes of mine waste, with mercury and cyanide going into the water system,” explains New York-based jeweller Monique...
View ArticleTo Victoria’s Secret’s Goliath, Lingerie Start-ups Play David
NEW YORK, United States — Founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond and sold to Limited Brands in 1982, Victoria’s Secret changed the way women shop for underwear. The ultra-feminine furnishings and pink...
View ArticleTravel Retail Taps Travellers Beyond Traditional Corridors
LONDON, United Kingdom — In recent years, booming international travel — originating especially from China, Russia, Indonesia and Thailand — has propelled travel retail from a relatively small sideline...
View ArticleWill Safe Cosmetics Pay Off?
NEW YORK, United States — When serial entrepreneur Gregg Renfrew decided her next venture would be a cosmetics company, she knew she wanted to use a peer-to-peer sales model in the vein of Avon and...
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Fashion’s EBay Obsessives
LONDON, United Kingdom — In recent years, there has been a veritable explosion of fashion resale startups — from Vaunte, ThredUp and Covetique to The RealReal and Poshmark — aiming to disrupt eBay, the...
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Floriane de Saint Pierre On Creative Leadership
PARIS, France — It wouldn’t be inaccurate to call Floriane de Saint Pierre the power broker of the creative economy. Responsible for the term “creative leadership,” and having placed Christopher Bailey...
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Reinventing the Scottish Knitwear Industry
HAWICK, United Kingdom — Summer is short lived in Hawick, or ‘Hoik’, as the Scottish Borders town is pronounced by the locals. All too quickly, the icy tendrils of their hard and dark winter envelope...
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Swarovski Spins Ambitious Web Across the Fashion Jewellery Market
LONDON, United Kingdom — According to Nadja Swarovski, the head of corporate communications and design services at crystals giant Swarovski, only two companies are ahead of it in jewellery sales:...
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The Ascent of Officine Generale
PARIS, France — The rise of Pierre Mahéo’s much buzzed-about menswear label Officine Generale is clearly a highly personal story. But, at first, Mahéo isn’t particularly talkative. After several...
View ArticleStreetwear’s New Guard
NEW YORK, United States — “There’s a new kind of streetwear emerging and you can see it in brands like Hood By Air, Off-White, Pyrex and Pigalle,” Marcelo Burlon, founder of multi-category streetwear...
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In Paris, The Broken Arm Attracts Insiders
PARIS, France — In only a year and a half, The Broken Arm, on the hushed Rue Perée in the Haut Marais neighbourhood of Paris, has become a magnet for the same mix of industry creatives that frequent...
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