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The brand is shutting its physical doors in the US to focus on its digital business and wholesale partnerships.
Mike Sykes is the Sports and Fashion Correspondent at the Business of Fashion. He is based in Washington, D.C. and is laser-focused on covering the sportswear world where it intersects with fashion, tech and more.
A disappointing US employment report surprised economists and investors, but was old news for the apparel sector, where the labour market has stagnated for years.
Nordstrom’s co-CEO and president joins Imran Amed to discuss the retailer’s 125-year history, why he believes the department store model still works and how taking the company private is shaping the company’s next chapter.
A growing number of mass and premium brands are pushing upmarket with a more luxe look, better materials and, often, higher prices. This case study unpacks how these labels are navigating the tricky challenge of elevating a brand.
The goods come from more than 380 brands, including Burberry and those owned by luxury powerhouses LVMH and Kering.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
