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FASHION

When it comes to Hailey Bieber, she mostly works with Dani Michelle for her street looks and Karla Welch (who also styles her husband, Justin) for red carpet.

Galliano Lessons, Life After Madewell & My Men’s Jeans Guide

Answers to all your burning mailbag questions and beyond as we sail into ’24.
Lauren Sherman • December 28, 2023
Lauren Sherman • December 21, 2023
Matches on Fire & The Great Fashion Correction of ’23
The luxury retailer Matches, once worth $1 billion, was bought by former Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group for $63 million.
Matches’ fire sale and Farfetch’s predatory bridge loan are the latest examples of a great industry-wide correction as egos, business models, and reality collide.
Lauren Sherman • December 18, 2023
A Bridge Too Farfetch
Perhaps now, with a new backer, Farfetch C.E.O. José Neves will do what everyone wants him to do: focus on making the marketplace business profitable.
Assessing the collateral damage and lessons learned—particularly that “winner-takes-all” nonsense—from Farfetch’s humbling: the delisting, the bridge loan, and failed Yoox Net-a-Porter merger.
Espirit C.E.O. William Pak alongside global chief brand officer, Ana Andjelic.
The Editors • December 18, 2023
Can Esprit Stage a Comeback?
A candid conversation between Line Sheet author Lauren Sherman and Esprit’s global chief brand officer, Ana Andjelic, about the art and science of revitalizing a dormant brand.
Alain Wertheimer, Chanel’s former global C.E.O. and a member of the family that owns the iconic brand.
Lauren Sherman • December 14, 2023
Who Can Sell Chanel?
For years, Chanel executives have been pondering ways to manage their brand on the secondary market. It’s been a journey that has included plenty of thoughtful decks, office gossip, and litigation, too.
Lauren Sherman • December 11, 2023
Life After The Bucket Bag
Mansur Gavriel has experienced all the feels of our capricious industry in just a decade: a once-in-a-lifetime product, investor frenzy, a humbling, some misses, an executive shuffle, and more. And yet, they’ve lived to tell the tale, and with optimism.
Former Gucci designer Alessandro Michele, who seems increasingly likey to land at Fendi, and Balenciaga designer Demna.
Lauren Sherman • December 4, 2023
More Michele Murmurs & Demna Questions
Here’s what everyone is really talking about in Paris, Milan, and L.A. as the year comes to an end.
In the early days, Antoine’s ambition for Berluti made him the Arnault sibling to watch, but he has been outshone by Alexandre, the eldest of the three boys that make up “the second family.”
Lauren Sherman • November 30, 2023
The Brothers Arnault
Some fresh reporting and insight into the Arnault family horse race to be the heir apparent.
Marc Metrick, Jennifer Lawrence and Delphine Arnault at the Saks Fifth Avenue Dior Holiday event.
Lauren Sherman • November 27, 2023
Saks Attack
An update on their Dior deal, the Estée Laundry rumors, all that fundraising, and the Neiman Marcus roll-up fantasies.
Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos, and Anna Wintour in February 2020.
Lauren Sherman • November 20, 2023
Bezos-Sánchez Aftershocks & The $100M Club
Pre-Thanksgiving chatter from across the fashion industry: The Todd Snyder revenue trap, Matthew M. Williams’ new investor, and the real backstory of that Bezos-Sánchez Vogue shoot.
Richard Dickson
Lauren Sherman • November 16, 2023
Gap Year
Can Richard Dickson, the newly empowered C.E.O. of Gap, succeed where every other leader has failed by cleaning house? “That’s the only thing that can save the company,” says one former executive. “Fire everyone and bring new people in.”
What Sarah Burton does after her departure from Alexander McQueen has become the topic du jour in Europe and England.
Lauren Sherman • November 13, 2023
The Sarah Burton Existential Questions
We know what McQueen is without McQueen, and will soon find out what McQueen is without Burton. But what is Burton without McQueen?
Demi Moore presented an innovation award to Gwyneth Paltrow at the CFDAs.
Lauren Sherman • November 9, 2023
The Skirt & The Whale
Amazon, Gwyneth, Tory, Khaite, Domenico, etcetera: news and notes from underneath the giant blue whale at the CFDA awards.
Tory Burch has done a good job of nodding to the big ideas of the season coming from Prada and the like, but making her take feel new and interesting.
Lauren Sherman • November 6, 2023
Tory, Birkenstock, Skims & The Great Fashion I.P.O. Debate
Market shifts and the post-ZIRP era have made going public out of fashion. Could Tory Burch and a crop of stalwarts change all that?
Estée Lauder C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda with Jane and Ronald Lauder.
Lauren Sherman • November 2, 2023
American Beauty
On the past, present, and uncertain future of Estée Lauder.
Wescoat Pound has made something nice that also makes the person wearing it look exponentially better.
Lauren Sherman • October 30, 2023
The Goldilocks Fashion Star of ’23
Finally, a feel-good story: Trish Wescoat Pound, with the help of Andrew Rosen, revived the contemporary formula, priced it perfectly, and nailed the modern distribution pipeline. In the process, she created a paradigm for how young brands can scale these days.
If it were indeed true, Tourniaire-Beauciel would be a huge get for Yeezy.
Lauren Sherman • October 26, 2023
Oy Vey: Here Comes the Kanye Comeback Tour
A rumored (and swiftly denied) contract with a star shoe designer is making waves—not only because West is involved, but also because the new Yeezy shoe is looking… good?
Farfatch C.E.O. José Neves and president Stephanie Phair.
Lauren Sherman • October 19, 2023
Farfetch Dreams vs. Realities
Once upon a time, Farfetch seemed like the future of online luxury—and fabulous boutique brands and beauty and even a secondary market for sneakerheads. Is the YNAP deal its white whale, or the prelude to another public failure?