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melinda gates
Lauren Sherman August 8, 2024
Let’s be honest, money and taste never quite overlapped, but now the world’s wealthiest are making a concerted effort to dress the part.
Peter Hawkings
Lauren Sherman August 5, 2024
So what really led to Peter Hawkings’ sudden ouster from Tom Ford, the brand he’d help his mentor create and eventually sell for $2.8 billion? Was it just declining sales? Vanilla Sex? New penny-pinching overlords? Or what if Hawkings desperately wanted to be Ford, and tried to be Ford, but just simply wasn’t?
John Donahoe
Lauren Sherman August 1, 2024
Nike’s distribution snafu covers over a far more significant mistake—a couple of them, really.
Jonathan Anderson
Lauren Sherman July 29, 2024
Feverish late summer speculation that Anderson is leaving Loewe for Gucci has reignited fantasies in Paris (and Milan) of a Sabato de Sarno hot swap. It’s fake news, for now… but captures an inescapable truth.


bernard arnault
Lauren Sherman July 25, 2024
The slowdown in China has everyone worried, even the brands that shouldn’t be. And it’s all manifesting itself in the latest iteration of designer musical chairs, which favor a reversion toward the traditionalists and a lot of fear-based mis-hiring.
tom ford
Lauren Sherman July 22, 2024
The quick departure of Peter Hawkings, Ford’s handpicked successor, begets the question: Without the founder’s obsessive control and inimitable taste, what’s left?
Kim Kardashian Skims
Lauren Sherman July 18, 2024
The Kardashians are under pressure to turn their most successful brand into an I.P.O.-ready, multichannel revenue machine that rewards their investors, justifies a $4 billion valuation, and fully supplants Victoria’s Secret—and soon. Can they pull it off?
Joshua Schulman
Lauren Sherman July 15, 2024
The British heritage brand, which used to be known for more than a “ludicrously capacious” tote, is struggling under plunging sales and a confused upmarket strategy. New C.E.O. Joshua Schulman will need to make some fundamental changes—and fast.


Roger Lynch
Lauren Sherman July 11, 2024
Discerning Condé Nast’s latest moves, entanglements, and disentanglements in the Middle East and China.
Meryl Streep Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Sherman July 8, 2024
Finally, a ‘Devil Wears Prada’ sequel is in the works, with Miranda Priestly facing the dystopian post-aughts realities of the magazine business. In other declining-industry news: notes on the Saks-Neimans merger.
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