Gap Inc.
Lauren Sherman
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April 27, 2026
LVMH’s Human Touch & Chanel’s Cruise Control
News and notes on LVMH’s new human resources and marketing overhaul, this season’s upcoming Cruise shows, and Gap’s new collaboration with Victoria Beckham.
Rachel Strugatz
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April 8, 2026
John Demsey’s American Beauty
While its corporate mothership focuses on an ambitious turnaround, Gap is preparing to revive its once-dominant beauty business for a new generation of customers—while leaning on a roster of high-profile, semi-controversial talent.
Sarah Shapiro
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April 3, 2026
There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand
Once a respected, middle-market power player and sentimental benchmark of suburban childhoods, Banana Republic is now a well-marketed, slightly adrift mall brand still searching for a signature—and a reason to matter.
Rachel Strugatz
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December 10, 2025
John Demsey’s Gap Years
In 2022, the legendary Estée Lauder Companies executive got himself canceled—and temporarily exiled from the industry’s polite society. With a new appointment at Gap Inc. and multiple consulting gigs, he’s back on the scene.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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December 2, 2025
LVMH’s Executive Shuffle & The Prada-Versace Consummation
News and notes on Pietro Beccari’s next chapter at LVMH, Prada’s post-Versace acquisition strategy, Gap’s soft Q3 rebound, and Quince’s latest legal drama.
Sarah Shapiro
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October 31, 2025
The Week in Shopping: Xs, Rated
As a frothed-over Nike x Palace linkup arrives this week, it’s time to check in on fashion’s love-hate relationship with collabs. In a world where the novelty has largely worn off, are all these eye-rolling brand marriages still worth it? (When each side gets something out of it, yes.)
Gap Inc.’s Hiring Spree & Burke’s LVMH Listening Tour
Fresh reporting from around the fashion universe: the slew of major hires across the Gap Inc. portfolio; the departure of LVMH’s longtime H.R. honcho Gena Smith to the J.Crew Group; and the anxiety percolating through LVMH Americas as new chairman Michael Burke settles in.
Lauren Sherman & Sarah Shapiro
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August 29, 2025
Montecito’s Retail Magic & Gap’s Q2 Earnings
News and notes on the Montecito shopping scene, the Alaïa-inspired “asymmetric top” trend, and the Q2 earnings for legacy mall brands Gap, Abercrombie, Victoria’s Secret, and more.
Big Dickson Energy
Those Jenna Lyons-to-Banana rumors are specious, but they were a byproduct of Gap Inc. C.E.O. Richard Dickson’s urgency to continue his turnaround and pour new life into old brands—including some that arguably don’t need to exist.
