FASHION
Rachel Strugatz
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June 4, 2025
The Real Housewife of Montecito
The Duchess of Sussex’s cringey farm-style brand—with its signature jams and ginger tea—has been marred by mixed messages, a curious ownership arrangement with Netflix’s consumer products, and mostly, the sense that Montecito’s ranking royal is just in it for the money.
Sarah Shapiro
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June 3, 2025
The Millennial D.T.C. Brands’ Midlife Crisis
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?
Lauren Sherman
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June 2, 2025
The Celine Leak & A Sander Lak Revival
News and notes on the Celine F/W 2025 menswear leak and what it portends for Michael Rider’s debut, designer Sander Lak’s forthcoming post–Sies Marjan project, and a potential hurdle for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
Lauren Sherman
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June 2, 2025
Scenes From the Kardashians-Grede Marriage
Over the past decade, Emma and Jens Grede turbocharged the Kardashian/Jenner business empire—driving sales of denim and bodysuits and dish soap—while creating the mold for celebrity brands. But the Gredes also have businesses of their own, and their holdco, Popular Culture, and the Kardashian family businesses seem to be slowly but surely drifting apart.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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May 30, 2025
Saks’ New Money & Tuckernuck’s Madison Avenue Play
News and notes on the “unexpected” payments to Saks vendors this week, the MAGA-coded Beltway brand Tuckernuck’s Madison Avenue gamble, the rise of the “Boatkin” bag, and the latest openings and collabs worth tracking.
Rachel Strugatz
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May 30, 2025
Billion-Dollar Bieber
News and notes on e.l.f. Beauty’s $1 billion acquisition of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode, and the collateral damage to Emily Weiss’s Glossier.
Loro Piana’s Bay Area Confab & Stylist Drama at the Carlyle
News and notes on Loro Piana’s annual tribute to merino wool perfection in the Bay Area, and the chatter surrounding O.G. celebrity stylist Jessica Paster’s altercation outside of the Carlyle.
I Wanna Saks You Up
As Saks Global’s June interest payment closes in, I spoke with former M&A banker Bill Cohan about the red flags flying on Wall Street, whether Saks should pay their creditors on time, and if a restructuring is inevitable.
Lauren Sherman
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May 28, 2025
The Arnault Grand Prix & Condé Nostalgia Overload
A tidy bundle of pressing fashion intel: The chatter surrounding Maria Grazia Chiuri’s final Dior show in Rome, whether LVMH’s billion-dollar partnership with F1 was ill-advised, and the latest entry in the bloated canon of peak-Condé-era postmortems.
Rachel Strugatz
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May 28, 2025
Hailey’s Rhode to Riches
E.l.f. Cosmetics, a staple of the Target beauty aisle, is buying Hailey Bieber’s booming beauty brand, Rhode, in a $1 billion deal.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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May 27, 2025
Dior’s Black Tuesday & Gap’s Q2 Green Shoots
News and notes from the fashion frontlines: The not-so-subtle dress code for Maria Grazia Chiuri’s final show as Dior’s head of womenswear, a close look at Gap brands’ recent foot traffic patterns, and a timely development for a teenage retail obsession.
Sarah Shapiro
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May 27, 2025
Everybody Wants This?
The Foster sisters, the celebrity duo behind the hit Netflix show “Nobody Wants This,” built their clothing brand Favorite Daughter on the shoulders of their growing media empire. But the real secret to their success might be much simpler: Selling clothes that women actually want.
Lauren Sherman
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May 26, 2025
We Don’t Talk About Bruno
News and notes on the subtle transformation at Chanel under Leena Nair and, now, Matthieu Blazy, as the Pavlovsky era appears to be fading.
Sarah Shapiro
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May 23, 2025
The Dockers-Levi’s Divorce & Everlane’s “Clean Luxury” Headfake
All the retail news fit to print: Authentic Brand Group’s $311 million acquisition of Dockers, Everlane’s attempt to brand itself as a “clean luxury” product, and the latest collaborations worth tracking.
Sarah Shapiro
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May 23, 2025
The Week in Shopping: Splurging in Montecito & Google’s Smart Glasses FOMO
News and notes on the latest shopping and retail developments worth your time: vintage sales from Liz Goldwyn, the Montecito D.T.C. rush, Google’s Warby Parker collab, and much more.
LVMH Futurecasting & Another Brand Payment Scandal
News and notes on the whereabouts of executive Marco Gobbetti, LVMH’s Q2 warning, Luisaviaroma’s emerging brand payment issues, and a System magazine co-founder’s next project.
The Vanity Fair Diaries
The scroll of contenders for the VF job is becoming endless—a bizarre, if unsurprising, phenomenon for a career-defining-ish role that the right people want to ignore and the wrong people covet, and that will be handed out by an inscrutable duo who won’t be in their chairs forever.