Piracy is a stock in trade, and fashion rumors (both true and false) are the currency. Are tunics in? Will Dacron last? Is the two-piece bathing suit coming back? Gulping pastrami sandwiches and dodging careering handcarts packed with their rivals' dresses, Seventh Avenue's denizens must decide. | | | | Marisa Berenson in Givenchy, Vogue 1969.
(Bert Stern/Condé Nast Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Piracy is a stock in trade, and fashion rumors (both true and false) are the currency. Are tunics in? Will Dacron last? Is the two-piece bathing suit coming back? Gulping pastrami sandwiches and dodging careering handcarts packed with their rivals' dresses, Seventh Avenue's denizens must decide.”
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| | rantnrave:// I would love an in-depth report on how wholesale has changed. One could look at wholesale buying pre- and post-IPHONE and INSTAGRAM, or change over time as the number of e-commerce retailers have increased. Direct-to-consumer companies make some traditional retailers look rigid or slow-footed, but there are some amazing stores operating on wholesale that play a much larger role than storefront. They support emerging designers and the cultural side of fashion. They become destinations for people looking to discover new labels. Does direct-to-consumer support creativity and cross-fertilization the same way? I'm thinking of stores like MACHINE-A and RARE MARKET. As for department stores, the shopping experience leaves something to be desired. I usually find myself in these stores with more questions than answers, as if information about inventory and wider company operations stops at the door. How can this be improved? How can retailers today get a better picture of global inventory and have fluid distribution networks to match? How are retailers embracing analytics platforms like EDITED and wholesale platforms like JOOR, NUORDER, and ORDRE?... LOÏC PRIGENT's five-part series SIGNÉ CHANEL is a must watch. It follows the making of CHANEL haute couture for A/W 2004, spending time in workshops, fittings, meetings, and deliveries—all the mundane, daily operations that bring fashion to the runway. Full of breathtaking and funny moments. Amazing work goes into making these collections and flicking through the slideshow versions just feels bizarre knowing what goes into making them. Great to see the series on M2M... Briefs: About that STITCH FIX IPO... RED BULL TV's new show "Social Fabric" looks good... The CALVIN KLEIN flagship store is transformed by STERLING RUBY. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| As Comme des Garçons prepares to open its latest Dover Street Market in Singapore, there's evidence that the island city-state is becoming increasingly important on the global retail map. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| As American rivals struggle to find growth, and after a torrid two years of trading, major European luxury brands are back on their feet. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Its anonymous creator talks to i-D about spending hours sifting through archival photos, and why fashion will always have a plagiarism problem. | | |
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| The Business of Fashion |
| Logos were once the symbolic and unwavering facet of a fashion house, but as branding becomes more nuanced in the digital age, logos are becoming more fluid than ever. | | |
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 | SHOWstudio |
| In this exciting new series MACHINE-A Founder and Director Stavros Karelis interviews his choice designers about their latest collection. As the title suggests, each interview is filmed 'Inside MACHINE-A', allowing the designer to stand amongst their collections as they discuss their inspirations and techniques. | | |
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 | 1 Granary |
| CSM designer Joël Quadri met the founders of bookalook.com to talk origins, business strategy and what it’s like working with your friends. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Fur is not dead: Design startup Wild and Woolly makes a splash with colorful fur accessories-phone cases, bags, and even earrings. | | |
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 | M2M |
| The staff are on tenterhooks, waiting to see Karl Lagerfeld's sketches for the new haute couture collection. As they finally arrive and are shown to the three lead seamstresses, the workroom buzzes with excitement. This is the signal for work to begin on the Winter collection. | | |
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 | UVA Today |
| Jennifer Bair recently went to Bangladesh to check on progress in upgrading safety measures, four years after the collapse of a garment factory killed 1,134 workers and injured more than 2,000 others. | | |
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 | Fashionista |
| "It's like being at home," says costume designer Janie Bryant, about working with makeup department head Lana Grossman and hair department head Theraesa Rivers again. | | |
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| Fast Company |
| Nike worked hard to improve conditions in its factories around the world, but activists say the company has been slipping back into using sweatshops. | | |
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 | Reuters UK |
| French luxury group Kering delivered a forecast-beating rise in first-half operating profit on Thursday after a successful revival of its biggest brand, Italy's Gucci, and a strong showing by fashion house Yves Saint Laurent. | | |
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 | FASHION magazine |
| Makeup is no longer just for women. | | |
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 | Vogue |
| We talked to the 2017 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists about their young brands, who they follow on Instagram, and their favorite decade for fashion. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Every year millions of garments are discarded as consumers ditch fast-fashion styles for a new wardrobe. At last the industry is acting - but more has to be done. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| In hot pink and spandex, these are not your grandma’s shmatas. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| What can their fashion tell us about Cersei, Daenerys, Jon Snow, and "rock 'n roll pirate" Euron Greyjoy? | | |
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 | Reuters |
| U.S. retailer Michael Kors (KORS.N) is betting that its acquisition of storied shoemaker Jimmy Choo will give sales a much-needed boost, but lingering problems at Kors' core bag business could delay potential benefits. | | |
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 | South China Morning Post |
| Landmark, Pacific Place and K11 are among the Hong Kong malls responding to growing interest in health and sustainability by adding new services and tweaking the retail mix. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| How Hannah Weiland gets it done. | | |
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