FASHION
The Row’s New Store & Ssense’s Next Steps
A timely dispatch from fashion’s front lines: Ssense’s bankruptcy-era restructuring, The Row’s new brick-and-mortar in downtown Manhattan, and WSJ.’s fashion makeover.
Texas Chainsaw Massenet
It would take years of psychoanalysis to determine why Natalie Massenet took the lawsuit route in her breakup with business and life partner Erik Torstensson. In the meantime, everyone is paying attention to their other baby: Skims…
Lauren Sherman
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September 10, 2025
Rachel Scott’s Proenza Debut & A Kering-Valentino Update
News and notes on Rachel Scott’s inaugural collection for Proenza Schouler, Kering extending the time horizon to buy Valentino, and Lululemon’s product stagnation.
Rachel Strugatz
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September 10, 2025
Get Me Dr. Levine!
The rise of Dr. Steve Levine, the Park Avenue architect of the $300,000 face lift, and the dawn of “the undetectable era.”
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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September 9, 2025
Kering’s de Meo Era Begins & Madewell After Lazarus
A punchy fashion world primer on Luca de Meo’s official appointment as Kering’s new C.E.O. and Madewell’s post–Adrienne Lazarus strategy.
Sarah Shapiro
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September 9, 2025
The Joy Buck Club
A conversation with the founders and new women’s design team at Buck Mason, the $100 million-a-year menswear heritage brand that largely bypassed venture capital on its way up.
Lauren Sherman
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September 8, 2025
Demna-Gucci Intrigue & The U.S. Open’s Best Dressed
A roundup of the latest fashion world chatter: the growing optimism surrounding Demna’s Gucci debut, the best-dressed U.S. Open players, and the somewhat underwhelming first issue of Edward Enninful’s ‘72 Magazine.’
Lauren Sherman
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September 8, 2025
The Hedi Chronicles
While the world mourned Giorgio Armani, Hedi Slimane took to Instagram to warn Celine against reusing anything he created while he was its creative director. Clearly, it was an overreaction to the work of Michael Rider. It also made him look a little out of touch with industry realities.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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September 5, 2025
Buck Mason’s New Girl & Madewell’s Executive Shake-Up
News and notes on Buck Mason’s expanded foray into the women’s market, Madewell president Adrienne Lazarus’s curious exit, and how Bloomingdale’s became a veritable life raft for Macy’s Inc.
Sarah Shapiro
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September 5, 2025
The Week in Shopping: Luxury’s Resale Personality Test
The secondhand category has been surging in recent years, driven by Gen Z bargain hunters addicted to resale platforms. According to experts in the field, a few distinct buyer archetypes have emerged.
Giorgio Armani’s Legacy & A Fashion Month Preview
News and notes on the early coverage of Giorgio Armani’s passing, anticipation for the Times’s treatment of the Massenet-Torstensson saga, the astounding number of collection debuts coming the Fashion Month, and more.
We Need to Talk About Alessandro
The generationally talented designer’s Roman idyll with Valentino is still problematic, one year in, and now the house’s newly appointed C.E.O., Riccardo Bellini, needs to make it work. Plus, news and notes on his successor and the Fendi sitch.
Rachel Strugatz
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September 3, 2025
The Lauder Boy
Estée Lauder’s nearly 80-year-old flagship brand showed some signs of life with a strong quarter. Great. But the fate of Stéphane de La Faverie’s corporate turnaround will require that the parent company’s other 24 brands actually lead the way.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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September 2, 2025
Chloe Malle’s Vogue Blueprint & Nike’s U.S. Open Victory Lap
News and notes on the revelations from Chloe Malle’s interview with the Times about her Vogue appointment, Alo’s dubious foray into the luxury handbag market, and Nike’s successful U.S. Open sponsorship strategy.
Sarah Shapiro
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September 2, 2025
Leset Point
How Lili Chemla built a self-funded, $20 million basics brand in the “grey space” between loungewear and luxury—a category that has exploded as customers seek out The Row look-alikes for one-tenth the price.
Lauren Sherman
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September 1, 2025
The Venice Film Festival Fashion Emergency
Overall, the carpet was a hot mess, as is the industry from which it sprung.
Lauren Sherman
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September 1, 2025
It’s Chloe After All…
As expected, Anna Wintour has chosen a longtime supplicant, imbued with a Hollywood pedigree and a can-do disposition, to take over American Vogue—the latest and most natural step in a never-ending succession journey.