#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...