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Would You Let an AI ‘Agent’ Buy Your Next Handbag?
The next big thing in AI is agents that can perform complex tasks on a user’s behalf, and companies from Amazon to AI player Perplexity believe they could reshape the way consumers find and buy products online.
What Happens When TikTok’s Trend Machine Shuts Down?
Facing a looming ban, brands and creators must contemplate the internet without its most important cultural production engine.
How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025
Soft skills like agility, intellectual curiosity and an ability to work across departments and categories will be crucial in 2025 — but true success will mean playing the long game.
‘Ethical’ Cotton Is Being Picked by Child Labourers in India, Watchdog Finds
A new report has linked businesses supplying companies including Zara-owner Inditex, H&M Group, Gap Inc. and Amazon to incidents of forced labour and debt bondage on Indian cotton farms.
The Top Beauty Trends to Watch in 2025
From fragrance layering to men’s styling products, trends on the rise in the new year hinge on the future of the social media landscape.
The Business of Beauty Haul of Fame: Revenge of the Cheap Shampoo
The new “everything shower” costs less than a latte — and about as much as a drugstore shampoo and conditioner, Faran Krentcil writes in Haul of Fame.
New Balance’s $10 Billion Plan
As the brand races to hit eleven-digit annual sales, CEO Joe Preston opens up for The State of Fashion 2025 about what New Balance is doing that its rivals aren't, the company's unique approach to brand and athlete partnerships and how it plans to stay ahead in the innovation battle.
What Comes After a Brand Hits $100 Million in Sales?
Labels that crossed the nine figure sales mark despite tougher market conditions are blending new and old school brand-building tactics to create long-lasting legacies as they move beyond that number.
Beauty’s Top M&A Targets for 2025
After a slow year for acquisitions, brands and investors alike are hoping that 2025 will yield bigger exits. But with most strategic buyers like L’Oréal and Estée Lauder operating with an even narrower lens, only a select few firms will make it.
This Week: The Golden Globes Kick Off Red Carpet Season
The luxury downturn, designer shakeups and rebranding campaigns could inject some new life into the red carpet.
Ralph Lauren, Anna Wintour Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The New York-based designer was honoured by outgoing US President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House Saturday afternoon, making him the first fashion designer to receive the award.
It’s Time for Fashion to Get Real About Its Climate Risks
Many brands have treated the climate crisis as a useful marketing tool, while viewing the impact to the bottom line as a distant threat. That approach is increasingly untenable, experts warn.