#BusinessGuide NEW YORK, United States — It may be Barneys’ last holiday season, but it might end up as one of its busiest. On a rainy weekday afternoon, the store on Madison Avenue was abuzz with Upper East Side ladies trying on coats, Chinese ...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — When Apiece Apart opened its first pop-up in 2015, the plan was to keep the store open for three months. That turned into six months, and then a year, as customers flocked to Soho to try on — and buy — the ...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — When Steve Madden bought the sneaker start-up Greats in August, it appeared to be the sort of deal every venture capitalist dreams about: a multibillion-dollar conglomerate annexing a risky-but-fast-growing...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Surratt Beauty is one of the brands that Barneys built. “Our brand was created with the intention of launching at Barneys,” said Heleyne Mishan-Tamir, who co-founded the cosmetics brand — known for its eye...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — For Nanushka, international expansion happened in a flash. Just three years ago, the Budapest-based contemporary brand’s sales came mainly from boutiques in designer Sandra Sandor’s native Hungary. Today, t...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — It’s the holy grail of online retail: suggesting the exact item someone wants to buy before they even know it. Many start-ups have tried and largely fallen short, from the so-called “Pandora for Fashion” A...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — After a two-decade search for the perfect location for its first flagship store in Manhattan, Nordstrom has arrived. The seven-story, 320,000-square-foot women's store, which opens to the public on Oct. 24,...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Summersalt is the latest direct-to-consumer brand to wade into the burgeoning travel goods market. The swimwear brand, which expects sales to balloon to $40 million this year, from $5.6 million in 2018, pl...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Barneys New York has agreed to sell its assets to Authentic Brands Group and B. Riley Financial Inc. for $271.4 million, according to court documents filed Wednesday night. If the purchase goes through, AB...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Elyse Hamilton says she’s done with Rent the Runway after the platform cancelled the delivery of a navy sequined dress she planned to wear to her sister’s wedding. The 40-year-old manager at a pharmaceutic...
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — De Beers jolted the industry last May when it announced Lightbox — a direct-to-consumer subsidiary that sells laboratory-grown diamonds — after years of vehement opposition to man-made stones as jewellery....
#businesstips EAST RUTHERFORD, United States — Since the advent of e-commerce, fashion brands have tried just about everything to get people back into their shops, from in-store yoga classes and photo booths to elaborate visual displays designed...
