I recently bumped into someone I hadn’t seen in many years, a great artist in his own right, who like me, had receded from the front row of the fashion business in the last decade or so. It was like […]
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A Revolutionary Shift Surprisingly, 2016 actually looks a lot like 1776. And many of us never saw it coming. Consumers are seeking out unique and small scale businesses that make their own pickles, brew their own beer, and use local
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The “Runway, Same Day” movement is not really a game changer. The game has already changed. The recent discussions around the \”Runway, Same Day\” business model, solidified by Burberry’s recent decision to combine both its men\’s and women\’s collections into a
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Last time I checked with the boys in Siliconland, you still couldn’t go out to eat online. We’re not talking about Grubhubbing it to your front door or an Uberlicious special. This is about the idea of going someplace –
Can Food Save American Retailing? Read More »
Not Much Happy or New About It, Except… This Holiday Season, Santa’s sleigh was so overstuffed that he was able to leave a lot of nearly-free, and even-free gifts under the trees of our nation’s homes. So Daddy, Mommy and
For the better part of 150 years, the art and science of retail has evolved slowly. In an era when brick-and mortar stores controlled a stable shopping experience, there were occasional flashes of innovation, but mostly a slow, steady cultural
Retail\’s Learning Pipeline: From Clicks to Bricks and Back Again Read More »
The future of the Millennial workspace has finally hit its apex: from bringing our home to the office and the new extremes of socializing in the workplace to Holacracy (a new, flat framework for management), we Millennials are defining our
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Investor Headline: Slowing topline growth in tandem with increased marketing and IT spend leads to margin contraction and a disappointing bottom line. This is a sad assessment for many retailers in the omnichannel world of 2015. And the second half
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A pop-up shop in the chicer-than-chic 16th arrondisement in Paris. Multi-page ad layouts in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Alliances with Net-A-Porter and buzzy New York skin doc Dendy Engelman to get the word out about Superstart, its new skincare “booster.”
The Unlikely, Hard-Won Hipness of Elizabeth Arden (Yes, Elizabeth Arden) Read More »
The holiday season is already upon us, but are consumers spending? That’s the question at the heart of our two-part 2015 Holidays Webinar. Join Sarah Quinlan, SVP of Market Insights for MasterCard Advisors, as she dives into holiday spending trends.
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