The Kicks You Wear: Nike Is Restructuring — Again
Good morning, friends! Welcome back to the Kicks You Wear. Thanks so much for reading today. I appreciate you giving me a bit of your time. Happy December! I don’t…
How Small Brands Are Learning to Love AI
Generative AI is fashion’s biggest opportunity — and its most divisive. Startups, tech giants and everything in between are rolling out AI-enabled features meant to help fashion brands boost their…
Rave News Digest: Kim Kardashian Reveals Brain Aneurysm Diagnosis, Davido Appointed To Major Leadership Role In Osun State, Lionel Messi + More
Kim Kardashian reveals she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, Davido appointed to major leadership role in Osun State, Lionel Messi signs three-year contract extension with Inter Miami. Stay in…
High Margin: Kering Sales, Smash-and-Grab Theft and Paris Art Week
Hello from Paris, where the Louvre reopened this morning three days after a jewel heist that shocked the world. The French crown jewels were plundered in a seven-minute operation —…
What Is Armani Group Worth? It’s Complicated
MILAN — Giorgio Armani’s will set the fashion industry abuzz with its stipulations that 15 percent of the company he founded 50 years ago be sold to LVMH, L’Oréal, EssilorLuxottica…
Ralph Lauren’s Next Chapter: Do More With More
Ralph Lauren’s strategy for the next three years could be summed up in less time than it takes to order a cup of Ralph’s coffee: Why mess with success? The…
Giorgio Armani, Italy’s Fashion ‘King,’ Has Died
Giorgio Armani, whose single-minded pursuit of an aesthetic ideal led him to become the richest designer in the world, and the sole owner of what was for many years the…
Ssense: What Went Wrong
After Donald Trump was re-elected as US president in November, Ssense’s co-founder and chief executive, Rami Atallah, told employees on Slack not to panic about the political leader’s threats to…
Beauty’s ‘Dream Team’ Launches a Fragrance Line
Melanie Bender is tired of talking about people’s faces. It’s an honest, if bold, sentiment coming from a beauty executive, but especially Bender, who has been developing products for the…
What It Takes to Get Into Sephora
At a recent pre-launch press event in New York City, makeup artist Mary Phillips recalled pitching Sephora executives on her new colour cosmetics brand, M.ph. “Our first meeting with them,…