FASHION
Rachel Strugatz
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January 15, 2025
Charlotte’s Web
Why is Charlotte Tilbury—both the brand and its famous founder—so upset about the latest iteration of the dupe market? It’s a pain in the neck, sure, but fans contend that it’s democratizing the beauty counter. Either way, Charlotte’s battle is a sign of some larger challenges to come.
Sarah Shapiro
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January 14, 2025
Is There Life After the Nap Dress?
Most brands dream of a product that can define a category, as Hill House Home did with their pandemic hit Nap Dress. Fashion, however, is about the future. So what does C.E.O. Nell Diamond have planned for an encore?
Lauren Sherman
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January 13, 2025
The Proenza Boys Become Loewe Men
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez have signed their deals with LVMH, which makes all but official Jonathan Anderson’s ascent to Dior while setting in motion a series of personnel changes that will play out over months… all while providing a happy ending to the Proenza reinvention.
Sarah Shapiro
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January 10, 2025
Collab Rats
News and notes on the freshest collabs in lingerie and leisurewear, plus the best latest offerings in beauty, and the rise of the outdoor slipper.
Hermès Goes Up, Up, Up Market
The legendary, family-controlled leather goods house is contemplating an unprecedented and decidedly old-school move: couture. Do the costs and craft required for this rarefied market make sense for the already stellar quarter-trillion-dollar business?
Rachel Strugatz
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January 8, 2025
Blake Sabbath
While all of Hollywood trains its legal eagle eyes on the increasingly ugly Blake-Baldoni lawsuits, Target is counting the lost riches from Lively’s haircare line. Plus, the reasons behind former Ulta C.E.O. David Kimbell’s hasty departure.
Sarah Shapiro
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January 7, 2025
A Tale of Two Commerce Platforms
ShopMy’s new Series B investment suggests that the lucrative fashion sector of the $24 billion creator marketing business is coming into focus, prompting a legit showdown with perennial leader LTK.
Lauren Sherman
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January 6, 2025
Khy Times
Kylie Jenner accessorized at the Golden Globes with Timothée, but making things work with her “real” fashion brand, Khy, is proving more elusive. Meanwhile, Kim’s P.E. vehicle has come up short.
Lauren Sherman
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January 2, 2025
Slaughterhouse 2025
A half-dozen-ish predictions regarding the luxury fashion business following its toughest year in recent memory.
Lauren Sherman
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December 30, 2024
Jonathan Anderson’s Hollywood Moonlight
Paris and Hollywood might be thousands of miles apart, but they’ve never needed each other more. CDGA-nominated wunderkinds Jonathan W. Anderson and Virginie Montel discuss how the worlds of fashion and entertainment are merging, from Saint Laurent Productions’ involvement in Emilia Pérez to how an LVMH designer ends up making costumes for Luca Guadagnino.
Lauren Sherman, Sarah Shapiro & Rachel Strugatz
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December 26, 2024
Blake Beautyology, LVMHUSA Fantasies & More
A pan-Line Sheet mailbag with answers to your burning questions about the entire fashion-beauty-retail industrial complex.
Lauren Sherman
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December 23, 2024
Calvin… Or Nothing?
The latest revival of Calvin Klein may represent a reversal back toward high fashion and relevance, but it’s also probably a last-ditch effort for PVH executives to determine whether it has any influence left beyond its advertising.
Lauren Sherman
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December 19, 2024
The Treaty of Versace
Capri C.E.O. John Idol is in a pickle in the wake of his failed attempted merger with Tapestry, and now he’s looking to sell off assets like Versace. But questions surround the business that he acquired for $2.1 billion in 2018. Who will buy it? And at what price? And what will happen to Donatella?
Rachel Strugatz
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December 18, 2024
The Goop Wife
Gwyneth Paltrow’s 16-year-old lifestyle brand’s awkward adolescence has been well-documented. Now, proven executive problem-solver Julia Hunter has arrived to turn things around with cuts, thought leaders, and maybe even showing up at Fashion Week.
Lauren Sherman
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December 16, 2024
Grede Is Good
A very candid chat with Jens Grede, the C.E.O. of Skims and member of the husband-wife team that turned Kim’s shapewear avocation into a fully realized category leader, replete with a likely I.P.O. and future liquidity event.
Lauren Sherman
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December 12, 2024
The Book of Matthieu
The appointment of Matthieu Blazy at Chanel, which the company has finally confirmed, represents a legit sea change in the industry—away from brand-manager-style creatives and back toward designer-designers. The move, of course, also set into motion a few others, all of which follow the same theme.
Rachel Strugatz
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December 11, 2024
The Colossus of Rhode
Rhode, the Hailey Bieber-founded beauty brand, has scaled up from a one-off celebrity lip gloss line into a nine-figure business with aspirations to be the Skims of beauty—and that includes charting a future that’s less dependent on its famous founder.