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Lauren Sherman July 14, 2025
News and notes on the expanding retail strategy for Phoebe Philo’s LVMH-backed namesake brand, fresh details out of the ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ production, and a close reading of Saks’s latest multibillion-dollar financing deal.
Bernard Arnault
Lauren Sherman July 14, 2025
Amid LVMH’s significant challenges (tariffs, China, the post-Covid correction, bored consumers, a depressed stock), Bernard Arnault is quickly adjusting course for his luxury conglomerate, and shuffling around prized executives. Will these be enough to combat the luxury recession, or are they the first strategic moves in a larger vision?
original birkin bag auction
Lauren Sherman, Rachel Strugatz & Julie Brener Davich July 11, 2025
News and notes on the Japanese online luxury resale conglomerate that won the auction for the original Hermès Birkin bag; Ulta’s acquisition of the high-end beauty retailer Space NK; the brain-dead Bezos-Vogue speculation; and much more.
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Notes on a few bright spots amid the luxury industry’s ongoing downturn, the record-breaking (and borderline outrageous) $10.1 million auction price for the original Hermès Birkin bag, and the next chapter for Jonathan Anderson’s 17-year-old brand.


Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour is searching for her Vogue successor as Condé Nast embraces life as a brand management firm, squeezing every drop of value from its once-mighty titles. But does Anna have a vision for the company, post-Anna?
Sydney Sweeney
Lauren Sherman July 9, 2025
Solving the mystery of Sydney Sweeney’s presence at the Bezos-Sánchez extravaganza; what Saks Global’s new debt rating really means; and Phoebe Philo’s expansion into the retail wilderness.
michael rider
Lauren Sherman July 7, 2025
News and notes from the fashion trenches: The surprising (if entirely sensical) appointment of LVMH veteran Michael Burke as the C.E.O. of the conglomerate’s Americas business; the readout on Michael Rider’s Celine debut; a gut check on the fresh Meghan Markle quasi-scandal; and all the dish on Pedro Pascal’s stylist switcheroo.
Luca de Meo
Lauren Sherman July 7, 2025
Amid tumult in Valentino’s executive ranks and uncertainty in the luxury market, new Kering C.E.O. Luca de Meo has several options before him: reshuffle the team, buy Valentino outright… or simply wait and see.


American Fashion
Lauren Sherman July 4, 2025
Our biggest stories of 2025, so far, featuring American fashion companies in a Eurocentric world.
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Time waits for no man, even the billionaire patriarchs of major fashion brands Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. These days, succession questions are swirling more than ever.
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