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aritzia Brian Hill Jennifer Wong
Sarah Shapiro July 8, 2025
How a risk-averse Canadian brand built a $6 billion business based on selling an emotional merchandising experience—and coming up with a few iconic franchises along the way.
joe kudla vuori
Sarah Shapiro July 1, 2025
Nearly a year after the company’s significant $825 million capital raise, the post-parody athleisure brand seems primed for a liquidity event, whether an I.P.O. or a sale to a strategic.
Chloe Fineman Nordstrom
Sarah Shapiro June 27, 2025
A close look at Nordstrom’s lackluster anniversary sale; how brands like Bally, The Row, and Prada are putting a kitschy twist on a prep classic; and why Suzie Kondi’s terry sets keep selling out.
Clare Vivier
Sarah Shapiro June 27, 2025
Clare Vivier, the founder of Clare V., explains her commitment to Silverlake before it was cool, and her thoughtful, neighborhood-centric, very personal retail expansion. The inevitable question: Can the brand scale?


Kelly Levian, Gab Waller
Sarah Shapiro June 24, 2025
The summer fashion feeding frenzy is on, forcing hardcore customers to cut deals with a shadow network of sourcers who hunt down the season’s “sold-out-but-not-really” must-haves from Miu Miu, Chanel, The Row, Pucci, Alaïa, and more.
Tuckernuck
Sarah Shapiro June 17, 2025
The D.C.-born fashion brand, a favorite of the Butterworth’s set, has quietly bootstrapped a $100 million business by blending its own styles with curated third-party labels. But multibrand retail is notoriously difficult—and scaling the company beyond its single brick-and-mortar location will take serious capital.
jeremy strong sarah snook kieran culkin succession
Sarah Shapiro June 13, 2025
Summer season news and notes on the latest industry trends, shopping data, Gstaad looks, beauty recs, and inbox intrigues.
abercrombie
Sarah Shapiro June 10, 2025
Both Abercrombie and its kid sister, Hollister, are surviving tariff shocks by ignoring the teen striptease of yore (and the toxic culture behind the scenes) and focusing on data to beat Temu and Shein at the TikTok game.


and just like that Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Shapiro June 6, 2025
A flâneur’s guide to Madison Avenue’s luxury retail fiefdoms, Broadway’s stretch of tween outfitters, SoHo’s arcadian boutiques, and Printemps’ shoe-and-beauty perfection in FiDi.
warby parker Neil Blumenthal and David Gilboa
Sarah Shapiro June 3, 2025
A decade ago, the direct-to-consumer revolt was in full bloom, with sky-high valuations and the promise that every brand could be the Warby Parker of something. So… how’s that going?
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