It can be easy to look at the marketplace and view it as oversaturated and incredibly competitive. But, when you look deeper, you can see the over-saturation truly occurs within the spectrum of surface level products. The circle of brands doing amazing and authentic things while pushing to do something to move things forward is actually very small. | | | | Pitti Uomo, Jan. 10, 2017.
(Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It can be easy to look at the marketplace and view it as oversaturated and incredibly competitive. But, when you look deeper, you can see the over-saturation truly occurs within the spectrum of surface level products. The circle of brands doing amazing and authentic things while pushing to do something to move things forward is actually very small.”
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| | rantnrave:// Cognitively, we live so much inside the abstractions of software. Think of how much time one spends "scrolling." When software works well, it's brilliant. We want all the error-handling and bug fixes to occur below the abstraction of user experience. And often, they do. Sometimes, errors reveal themselves to us, like in a marketing e-mail I received recently that addressed me as "Hello, [null]!" Omnichannel retail is no exception. FARFETCH's ambition for "Store of the Future" is promising for its holistic vision and emphasis on a seamless customer experience. If ambition aligns with execution, the company could set the tone for retail. This is a legitimate race... Know thy customer. Also, know who is not thy customer—that is, if you're not in it to scale infinitely. Is that a trick question for businesses? TROY PATTERSON's piece on INDOCHINO is a great read, deftly handled in its consideration for the company's target customer—who Patterson recognizes (rather gracefully) is not himself, but who very well could be Patterson's colleague Evan. See how they fared at Indochino's NYC store. A wonderful read, for so much more than the ebbs and flows of business in the made-to-measure upstart space... AMERICAN GIANT founder BAYARD WINTHROP also knows who is not his customer: those focused on getting the lowest price. And that's why he doesn't see American Giant as being in direct competition with AMAZON or WAL-MART. If given the immediate opportunity, would American Giant want scale of that magnitude? Tough question facing anyone with venture funding—or is it?... Here's a snippet on PATAGONIA's venture fund, TIN SHED... The latest issue of SYSTEM MAGAZINE is out. Here's a brief (but great) interview with founding editor ELIZABETH VON GUTTMAN... WARHOL's store window displays... V&A X-rays. | | | - HK Mindy Meissen, curator |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| Farfetch is set to unveil a beta version of its Store of the Future, an ‘operating system’ for physical retail. BoF gets a sneak peek. | | |
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 | SSENSE |
| Jack Self grapples with physicalized irony in Balenciaga’s new Rue St. Honoré store. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| A look inside the fashion retailer's ambitious plan to open 100 stores in the next five years. | | |
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 | Glossy |
| Bayard Winthrop, the founder of American Giant, is building out his apparel company at a snail’s pace compared to the quickening speed of fast fashion retail. That’s intentional. | | |
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 | The Fashion Law |
| In recent years, Lacoste, Zac Posen, Burberry, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Coach, Tommy Hilfiger, Fendi, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, among others, have all been named in lawsuits filed by former unpaid interns. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Mr. O’Brien, a man for all New York seasons, in the arts, fashion, music and media, died last week at age 70. | | |
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 | Grailed |
| "We liked that there was an opportunity to mock the trend, while at the same time, in a way, give in to it." | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| We caught up with 'Business of Fashion' founder Imran Amed to discuss some of the most buzzy industry topics, including Trump, Brexit and influencers. | | |
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 | Hypebeast |
| Family New York talks to HYPEBEAST Magazine about the trials and tribulations of working with streetwear's biggest names. | | |
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 | 10 Magazine |
| “Gisele – dream! Kate – dream! Raquel – dream!” says American choreographer Stephen Galloway over the phone from Los Angeles. They are models, of course. Supermodels. Bündchen. Moss. Zimmermann. And Mr. Galloway knows plenty about those. He is, after all, as fashion legend goes, the model whisperer. | | |
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 | The Robin Report |
| Jeff Gennette was named CEO of Macy’s Inc. in 2017. He began his retail career in 1983, as an executive trainee at Macy’s West. During our recent conversation with Jeff, intriguing insights surfaced as to the future of department stores. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Will it have robots? No checkout counters? Virtual fitting rooms? Almost anything seems possible. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| For the new issue of i-D, we teamed with British photographer Tim Walker to celebrate just some of the brilliant, inspiring young minds and talent working in London today. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Costume designer Jenn Rogien on dressing the girls of ‘Girls.’ | | |
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 | AnOther |
| Olivia Singer speaks to Jonathan Anderson about celebrating an oft-marginalised field in a digital age | | |
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 | Retail Dive |
| Target’s stores and website have been spared the frenzy that attended the retailer’s Lilly Pulitzer and Missoni collaborations, perhaps because the retailer ordered more inventory and has cracked down on retail arbitrage. | | |
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 | TIME |
| In the past year, Christian Siriano's designs have been spotted everywhere. So much so that you've seen them on red carpets, awards shows, and even the DNC, where Michelle Obama sported one of his dresses to give her now-iconic "when they go low, we go high" speech. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| Walmart.com is preparing to launch a new feature called “Pickup Discount” that will lower the prices on, soon, up to one million online-only items if the customer chooses to pick up their order at a local store instead of opting for shipping. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| An IBM survey compared the responses of 600 execs and 6000 consumers. | | |
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 | The Rake |
| Savile Row’s Huntsman are the masters when it comes to structured tailoring that ennobles the wearer. | | |
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