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Thakoon Panichgul x hommegirls
Sarah Shapiro April 29, 2025
Fashion entrepreneur/designer/publisher Thakoon Panichgul has been an editor, launched his own label, and founded a print magazine. Now he’s transformed a Manhattan dry cleaner into the first retail outpost for his label, HommeGirls, and is doubling down on analog treasures in a digital world.
adidas sambas
Sarah Shapiro April 25, 2025
News and notes on Adidas’s sneaker strategy and healthy Q1 results, the anxious chatter from fashion executives about the tariff “bloodbath” coming for retail, and a handful of new stores and collaborations to monitor.
Dries Van Noten mercer street new york
Sarah Shapiro April 25, 2025
A crop of contrarian retailers (Outline, HommeGirls, etcetera) are stepping back from (or doing away with) e-commerce, building their models around stuff you can touch, like physical stores and catalogs. Plus, a trunk show tour!
beyonce Levi’s
Sarah Shapiro April 22, 2025
Levi’s is thriving, with a newly surging D.T.C. model, a fitness apparel line, and a timely cross-genre partnership with Cowboy Carter, herself. Then again, there’s never been an easier time to sell American jeans. Is Levi’s really meeting the moment, or just getting lucky?


Sporty & Rich
Sarah Shapiro April 18, 2025
Notes on the evolution of fitness apparel beyond leggings and sports bras, the spike in high-end, non-tariff-related prices, and a Gen Z Sephora phenomenon.
Rebecca Hessel Cohen loveshackfancy
Sarah Shapiro April 15, 2025
Rebecca Hessel Cohen’s ultra-pink, Versailles-chic sorority brand is expanding its business through traditional retail, wholesale, and a growing variety of licensing plays—everything from Pottery Barn rugs to press-on nails. How far can LSF reach before it overextends?
Jonathan Saunders
Sarah Shapiro April 11, 2025
A bundle of fashion industry intel: Notes on the high-end designers taking creative director roles at mall brands, how fashion industry insiders are bracing their businesses for Trump’s trade war, and a few new stores and collabs you may have missed.
Lindsay Lohan trucker hat 2003
Sarah Shapiro April 11, 2025
News and notes on the latest Gen Z retail trends, the NikeSkims partnership, and the rapidly shrinking market for wallets in an Apple Pay world.


2004 urban outfitters teen fashion
Sarah Shapiro April 8, 2025
Urban Outfitters’ parentco is more than the sum of its boho-cheap parts, with an incubator spinning off new, synergistically inclined businesses—like their new secondhand concept, Reclectic—to monetize more of the product life cycle, and of course, capture more customer data.
Jim Rosenfield
Sarah Shapiro April 4, 2025
Reflections on Jim Rosenfield’s agreeably bougie mecca for Bay Area fashion worthies and families on weekends, plus some informed speculation about what comes next.
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