This industry will never be a winner takes all. There are multiple tectonic plates shifting. Our focus is on the movement of consumption from offline to online because if you ride that wave, growing as fast as it is, you have no need to worry about competition. |
| | | | | White on yellow. (Anthony Citrano) | | | | | |  | “This industry will never be a winner takes all. There are multiple tectonic plates shifting. Our focus is on the movement of consumption from offline to online because if you ride that wave, growing as fast as it is, you have no need to worry about competition.”
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| rantnrave:// In a profile at the FINANCIAL TIMES, FARFETCH founder JOSÉ NEVES notes that only 7 percent of clothing purchases are made online. Wonder what the online/offline sales split is like for the sorts of small, independent boutiques served by FARFETCH, how quickly it's tilting in favor of online, and how much of that is attributable to FARFETCH... According to RACKED and QUARTZ, when we get drunk, we buy stuff online, and the stuff we buy tends to be clothing. Are brands doing drunk/sober A/B testing for their online ads yet?... Another thing we love to do when we're drunk? Pay other people to drive us places. MARC JACOBS is the latest fashion brand to partner with UBER on a promotional stunt. There's a retail concept in here somewhere... "I got f***ing responsibilities. And I'm standing in line for a f***ing hoodie." Lots of time for soul-searching when you're waiting for PABLO... I love EATER's maps, especially when they get hyper-specific, like this list of where to eat while visiting the newly-opened MET BREUER. I want one of these for where to eat after shopping at x, y, or z... | | | - Adam Wray, curator |
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 | Financial Times |
| José Neves, the Portuguese-born founder and chief executive of luxury fashion technology business Farfetch, sits in a private room at one corner of his company's vast new open plan office on Old Street roundabout, the fulcrum for London's tech start-ups, reeling off the material advantages of living in the digital age. | | |
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 | SXSW |
| Emily Weiss has a hunch that the time-tested marketing mantra "sex sells" is going away. Technology is enabling self-expression, but most importantly self-acceptance, in a tremendous, unprecedented way. So at Glossier she's operating under the belief that self sells. That being yourself, being honest and authentic sells. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| As President of Comme des Garçons, and the mastermind behind the magnificent Dover Street Market, Adrian Joffe is flying the flag for independence in fashion. | | |
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 | Business of Fashion |
| NEW YORK, United States - On Wednesday, at a grand presentation produced by Bureau Betak and staged at Skylight at Moynihan Station, an event space in New York's Midtown, sportswear giant Nike introduced what it characterised as its most ambitious line-up of new products since the launch of Nike Flyknit in 2012. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| When the world's largest athletic-gear company kicked off two days of media presentations this week to preview new, innovative gear that would hit shelves through 2016, Nike didn't opt to start the event with remarks from LeBron James or any of the other professional athletes signed to the company. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| The rise of the reliance on the court of public opinion is proving a popular topic of discussion for fashion sites. On the heels of WWD's recent article discussing the growing movement of social shaming in connection with design knockoffs, Mashable has taken on the topic, as well, in an article entitled, "How social media shaming controls fashion copycats," albeit with a much decreased level of accuracy. | | |
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 | SURFACE |
| Exquisite tailoring and embellishment serve as the hallmarks of Joseph Altuzarra’s ever-evolving designs. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| By building altruism into its business model, Bombas joins a growing list of so-called buy-one-give-one companies. Toms, a shoemaker based in Los Angeles, pioneered the idea. It gives away a pair of shoes to children in the developing world for each pair it sells. | | |
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| i-D Magazine |
| Last night (Mar. 17), Sarah Mower hosted Collective Action, a talk with Guram Gvasalia -- CEO of Vetements -- on how to revolutionize the antiquated fashion system. Gvasalia granted i-D’s Anders Christian Madsen an exclusive interview about his vision for a better future for the industry. | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| When John Simons opened his first dry-goods emporium in Old Quebec City in 1840, you have to wonder if he had any idea of how frenzied the retail landscape would one day become. Then again, if vision is something that runs in families, perhaps he passed some down to his great great grandson, Peter. | | |
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 | VentureBeat |
| Aeropostale has been floundering. Sales have been down quarter after quarter. For the most recent quarter, comparable sales were down 6.7% compared to this time last year. Net sales were down 16.1%. Aeropostale had a bad year as it stands. | | |
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 | Vogue |
| Twenty years ago, when I was just starting out as a fashion writer, I managed to get a ticket to Alexander McQueen 's New York debut on the Lower East Side. | | |
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 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |
| Isaac Mizrahi weighs in on presidential candidates' fashion choices. Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History opens at the Jewish Museum on March 18. | | |
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 | Co.Design |
| At its "Innovation for Everyone" event today in New York, Nike unveiled high-performance footwear and apparel for athletes, a fleet of items for consumers, and more features on its Nike+ app. But the one thing that had everyone salivating was the rumored public launch of the self-lacing high tops inspired by what Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II. | | |
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 | CityLab |
| Two bloggers chronicle the playful, colorful outfits worn by the city’s mature residents. | | |
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 | The Drum |
| There's a philosophical shift in what luxury products mean to people that's causing brands to grapple with whether they can remain exclusive in a world where they are expected to be more accessible. Luxury used to be having a specific handbag and now it's about taking an Uber. | | |
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