Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: Monique Rodriguez turned a series of Instagram tutorials — where she made hair care concoctions out of …
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The Debrief | Making Sense of the Direct-to-Consumer Reckoning
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. About a decade ago, a number of flashy direct-to-consumer brands peddling premium products and promising to cut out …
The Debrief | Inside the Gap and J.Crew Comeback Attempts
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: J.Crew and Gap defined how Americans dressed for much of the ‘90s and 2000s, until their …
The Debrief | Gucci’s New Configuration
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. In the late 2010s, Gucci pulled off a successful turnaround by aligning creative director Alessandro Michele’s unique, …
The Debrief | How Skims Took on Victoria’s Secret and Spanx
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Founded in 2019 by Kim Kardashian and retail veteran Jens Grede, “solution wear” line Skims has taken …
The Debrief | How Athletes Are Building Fashion Brands
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Athletes have long been part of the fashion conversation. In the past, they’ve capitalised on their influence …
The Debrief | How Athletes Are Building Fashion Brands
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Athletes have long been part of the fashion conversation. In the past, they’ve capitalised on their influence …
The Debrief | Navigating the Return of Wholesale
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: The wholesale model, while offering exposure and some upfront revenue, did not always have the best …
The Debrief | In Activewear, Where Are the White Spaces?
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: Two decades ago, Lululemon built its brand around yoga — then considered a counter-culture sport. Today, …
The Debrief: Eva Chen on Meta’s Virtual Fashion Experiment
Background: Social-media company Meta has launched a virtual clothing store, and Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne are the first major designers to create looks fit …
The Debrief: Fashion Execs on Managing Gen-Z
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: The youth-obsessed fashion and beauty industries can’t get enough of Gen-Z talent: they believe they need …
The Debrief: Is This the Beginning of the End for Leather?
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: After years of experimentation and development, handbags, shoes and coats made of mycelium leather — created …
The Debrief: The Fall of the Skinny Jean
Follow The Debrief wherever you listen to podcasts. Background: After years of analyst anticipation that the appeal of the leg-squeezing silhouette would fade, market research …
The Debrief: Fashion’s Greenwashing Problem
To subscribe to The Debrief, please follow this link. Background: Concern about the environmental impact of clothing has swelled in the past few years. So …
The Debrief: How Vacation Clothes Became Big Business
To subscribe to The Debrief, please follow this link. Background: Every spring, top fashion clients, influencers and insiders are whisked away to lush destinations like Monte …
The Debrief: Who Is Designing Fashion in the Metaverse?
To subscribe to The Debrief, please follow this link. Background: A new generation of digital creatives are leading fashion brands into virtual worlds by using …
The Debrief: Why Shein Is Valued at $100 Billion
To subscribe to the BoF Podcast, please follow this link. Background Fast fashion upstart Shein set the industry ablaze this month after reports it was …
Introducing ‘The Debrief,’ a New Podcast Hosted by Lauren Sherman
Fashion has the ability to move markets, shake up cultural norms and even transform society. But who — and what — are the forces driving …