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Gen Z isn’t ready to rent clothes — yet

Posted on July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
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Lucy Maguire

Liam Baines, 20, from Manchester shops regularly for second-hand clothes on Depop, but is uncertain when asked about renting clothes. “I see the environmental benefits of rental but I want…

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Business

Websites Used to be Secondary to Stores. That Dynamic is Shifting.

Posted on July 8, 2020July 8, 2020
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Maghan McDowell

Investing in online is now no longer a choice for fashion. At a time when most stores have been closed to traditional shoppers, omnichannel services are burgeoning, prompting a…

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Business

The Pandemic Is Rewriting the Rules of Retail

Posted on July 8, 2020
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Denise Lee Yohn

Retailers need to stop expecting business to return to “normal.” There’s no going back to how it was anytime soon. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis, brick-and-mortar…

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Lifestyle

Can Fashion Be Redeemed?

Luxury fashion’s love of hierarchies has never been subtle. Telling people what they should look like often also requires telling them what’s unacceptable: To spend money on feeling better,…

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Business

American Eagle Outfitters Launches New Slow Fashion Business ‘Unsubscribed’

Posted on July 1, 2020July 6, 2020
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Gabriella Lacombe

American Eagle Outfitters is shifting from its typical fast fashion model with the launch of ‘Unsubscribed’, a new women’s apparel and accessories business focused on what the company has called…

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Fashion Features

Sustainable Sleepwear Brand Talks Antibacterial, Antiviral Fabrics

Posted on July 1, 2020July 2, 2020
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Tracey Meyers

In the past, antibacterial and antiviral fabric treatments were merely an “add-on” feature — but according to Dagsmejan, a sustainable Swedish-Swiss sleepwear company, these technologies “have become a must-have” due to the…

Lululemon to Buy Mirror, a Fitness Start-Up, for $500 Million

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Business

Lululemon to Buy Mirror, a Fitness Start-Up, for $500 Million

Posted on June 30, 2020July 2, 2020
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Sapna Maheshwari

The athleisure company’s first acquisition is a bet on the future of fitness and a way to further tie into the lives of its customers. Lululemon, the purveyor of expensive…

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Fashion Features

At the BET Awards, Putting Black Designers in the Spotlight

Posted on June 30, 2020July 1, 2020
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Vanessa Friedman

The red carpet didn’t exactly return. But fashion did. It wasn’t your usual awards show red carpet. There wasn’t, after all, a red carpet. Instead there were nominees and performers…

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Fashion Features

Meet Mowalola Ogunlesi, the British-Nigerian Designer Kanye West Hired to Lead the Yeezy Gap Design Team

Shortly after Gap confirmed it’s partnering with Kanye West on a Yeezy line that’s set to drop in the first half of 2021, 25-year-old designer Mowalola Ogunlesi posted to her Instagram…

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Fashion

Harris Reed Is Designing the Gender-Fluid Fashion of the Future, One Harry Styles Blouse at a Time

Posted on June 27, 2020July 2, 2020
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Rachel Tashjian

Minimalism often seizes designers in periods of uncertainty: when the fashion industry is on the ropes, say, or when a given designer needs a reset. But the work of Harris…

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