Lauren Sherman • July 25, 2024

Fashion’s Red Scare & More Designer Musical Chairs

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.

Rachel Strugatz • July 24, 2024

The Vanilla Sex Scandal

The worst-named beauty product in history has become a metaphor for the demise of Tom Ford Beauty.

Lauren Sherman • July 22, 2024

Tom Ford After Tom Ford…

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?

Lauren Sherman • July 18, 2024

The Shape of Skims

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?

Rachel Strugatz • July 17, 2024

I Know It Was You, Freda

The midsummer departure of Estée Lauder’s Tracey Thomas Travis raises some renewed questions about the future of the family-controlled, $23 billion cosmetics company.

Lauren Sherman • July 15, 2024

Trench Warfare

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.

Lauren Sherman • July 11, 2024

Roger of Arabia

Discerning Condé Nast’s latest moves, entanglements, and disentanglements in the Middle East and China.

Rachel Strugatz • July 10, 2024

Midnight in the Garden of Goop and Evil

News and notes on the latest beauty industry chatter: Goop’s brick-and-mortar expansion, and the executive shuffle at Pat McGrath Labs.

Lauren Sherman • July 8, 2024

Devil in a Cerulean Blue Dress

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.

Rachel Strugatz • July 3, 2024

The Pat McGrath Valuation Trap

Six years after an eye-popping $1 billion valuation, Pat McGrath Labs is still trying to translate its brilliant but media-shy founder’s magic into commercial potential.

Lauren Sherman • July 1, 2024

Pinault Holds Barred

Kering C.E.O and chairman François-Henri Pinault has spent the last year beefing up his executive bench and seeding a succession plan, even as things at Gucci remain uncertain.

Lauren Sherman • June 27, 2024

No Man’s Lanvin

News, notes, and the current discourse on the appointment of Peter Copping to lead Lanvin, France’s oldest house, which needs an injection from a real adult.

Lauren Sherman • June 26, 2024

Arnault Family Values

News and notes on the Arnaults’ Richemont investment and the paterfamilias’ magazine treatment.

Lauren Sherman • June 24, 2024

Anna in Paris

Amid retail blues and high election anxiety, Anna Wintour flexes for the Vogue World pre-Olympics bash, pulling in fashion worthies (Galliano, Toledano, that guy from State Farm) and billionaires (Delphine, Dumas, Geffen) while acting like it’s just another day’s work.

Lauren Sherman • June 20, 2024

The Twitter Menswear Guy on Fashion’s Missing Middle

Talking to Derek Guy, the oddly private fashion hobbyist with a million followers, about the vacuity of trends, why it’s hard to find good jeans, and the stratification of luxury and fast fashion.