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FASHION

The Olsens, The Future of The Row & Those Fundraising Murmurs…

The ultimate quiet luxury brand has become a fully realized concept with genuine fashion bonafides. But the business is likely too small to sell to a strategic investor and needs additional capital to grow bigger and faster. Here come the term sheets…
Lauren Sherman • June 22, 2023
Lauren Sherman • June 19, 2023
The Great Fashion Cancellation That Wasn’t
Danielle Prescod, the author-influencer-D.E.I. consultant who launched her business exactly three years ago in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.
Three years ago, after the murder of George Floyd, the fashion industry rushed to make up for past sins by installing chief diversity officers, focusing on D.E.I. policies, and working to reshape corporate cultures. These days, though, the effort has lapsed. An honest conversation with Danielle Prescod of 2BG.
Lauren Sherman • June 15, 2023
Inside LVMH’s Pharrell Fantasy
Pharrell Williams’ appointment at Louis Vuitton demarcates a new era in fashion.
Williams’ appointment at Louis Vuitton, if successful, could redefine the relationship between fashion and celebrity at a moment when the two industries have never been more intertwined.
Billionaire mogul Thomas Tull is now a major investor in America’s rediscovered love affair with cowboys.
Lauren Sherman • June 12, 2023
Life Imitates ‘Yellowstone’
Hollywood billionaire Thomas Tull sold his company to the Chinese, moved to Pittsburgh, and became infatuated with a quixotic view of the American West. Could his passion extend to taking over Levi’s?
Lauren Sherman • June 8, 2023
Why Are Designers Becoming So Expendable?
A spate of high profile departures illustrate just how far we’ve come from the ’90s, when houses could afford creative talent more time to achieve success.
Gabriela Hearst walks the runway during the Chloé Womenswear Fall Winter 2023/2024 show.
Lauren Sherman • June 5, 2023
Hearst’s Au Revoir to Chloé
Richemont’s biggest fashion brand is still tiny compared to rivals. Perhaps the greatest challenge for Chloé was one that Gabriela Hearst couldn’t solve.
Lauren Sherman • June 5, 2023
The End of the Edwardian Age
Edward Enninful’s “promotion” to an advisorship at British Vogue completes Condé Nast’s long-labored aim of global consolidation. It also ends an era and ensures that Anna Wintour will be the universe’s last real glossy editor-in-chief.
Nadaam co-founders Matt Scanlan and Diederik Rijsemus.
Lauren Sherman • June 1, 2023
The Naadam Guy, The Death of Entireworld & LVMH Dreams
Notes on an evolving fashion business scandal.
James has made a career of pushing buttons—she has some naysayers, who believe that she only pokes the bear when it’s self-serving—and yet the end result is typically net positive.
Lauren Sherman • May 29, 2023
Aurora James & The Dirty Business of Fashion Economics
In a candid conversation, the designer and activist discusses her big break, some financial lessons learned along the way, that A.O.C. dress and more.
Supreme’s creative director Tremaine Emory is still in recovery mode after suffering a lower aorta aneurysm last October.
Lauren Sherman • May 25, 2023
What’s Going on at Supreme?
Supreme isn’t that big of a company, but its influence is gargantuan. So why was creative director Tremaine Emory’s life-threatening health scare largely overlooked by the press?
Fifteen years after Rachel Zoe made the career viable to millions of teenagers, there are enough people calling themselves “celebrity stylists” to fill multiple representation agencies.
Lauren Sherman • May 25, 2023
The Celebrity Styling Caste System
Yes, yes, styling can be a highly lucrative business, with a handful of top players on retainer for $200,000 per brand, and generating $5 million to $10 million annually. The reality for most stylists, though, is far less glamorous. Is now the time to mobilize?
Virginie Viard, creative director of Chanel since 2019.
Lauren Sherman • May 22, 2023
The Chanel Spell
Gossip abounds and rumors swirl: Is Nicolas Ghesquière headed for Chanel? What are the Wertheimers really thinking? But the real story is a lot more complicated, if decidedly less sexy.
Alexandre Arnault, Gal Godot, and Anthony Ledru at the Tiffany’s ribbon cutting ceremony.
Lauren Sherman • May 15, 2023
Scenes from the Tiffany-LVMH Marriage
Inside the rift between an Arnault heir and his top marketer, plus the Nike and Basquiat and Beyoncé of it all, as America’s greatest luxury brand merges into France’s biggest company.
Lauren Sherman • May 8, 2023
Alessandro Michele Rumors Part 2: The Qatari Connection
While the fashion world awaits Michele’s next act, new details have surfaced regarding the Qatari royal family buying the long-dormant Walter Albini—with the express purpose of enlisting Michele to relaunch it.
Jared Leto, slated to play Lagerfeld in an upcoming biopic, had to dress up like the late designer’s cat in order to freak people out.
Lauren Sherman • May 4, 2023
Anna’s Banana: A Met Post-Mortem
A frank assessment of fashion’s biggest night for the year: what it means for the brands, for the platforms, and for Vogue, itself.
Lauren Sherman • May 1, 2023
Lagerfeld & The Met Ball-ification of Fashion
It’s only fitting that this year’s costume exhibit would honor the designer who ushered in an era of transformative commercialism in fashion—precisely the sort of business intelligence that will be highlighted this evening.
Kristina O’Neill served as WSJ. magazine’s editor-in-chief for a decade.
Lauren Sherman • May 1, 2023
Inside the WSJ. Succession Scandal
The somewhat surprising torpedoing of Kristina O’Neill sets into motion a cavalcade of questions about what’s next for the once-trailblazing fashion magazine, starting with: Is this the beginning of the end?
The RealReal founder and C.E.O., Julie Wainwright.
Lauren Sherman • April 24, 2023
The RealReal Housewives of Resale Fashion
Private equity vultures are circling TheRealReal, the troubled consignment juggernaut, amid hopes for an M&A transaction that would consolidate the market.