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Welcome to the Scoop: a weekly email series in which I quiz fashion insiders on the stories of the week. This will be a way for the Vogue Business community to synthesize and reflect on the latest headlines and get a little inside scoop every Friday.This week’s guest is Anissa Jaffery, the PR and brand collaborations lead for EMEA at Asics SportStyle. Anissa is one of those people whose age doesn’t seem to reflect their experience — in just a little over a decade, she’s held roles at Karla Otto, Purple PR, Net-a-Porter, Topshop, Calvin Klein, and even an e-bike…

At Coachella weekend one, brands were out in force. Justin Bieber’s Skylrk hosted a ‘Skylrk Oasis’ on the festival grounds, which will continue into weekend two (it’s Bieberchella, after all). Gap, Coachella’s exclusive clothing apparel sponsor and official merch partner, sold hoodies at its ‘Hoodie House’, also on the festival grounds. Off-site, Rhode hosted Rhode World, its first Coachella compound, alongside desert regulars including Revolve, Poosh, Guess, 818, and more.A mix of CPG brands also got in on the action, from desert veteran (and influencer-friendly) Poppi, to companies like Starbucks and cleaning product brand Method. It’s a reflection of Coachella’s…

Justin Bieber broke a slew of records at Coachella 2026 — or Bieberchella, as Beliebers have dubbed this year’s festival. Bieber is the highest-paid artist in Coachella history ($10 million); spurred the highest-ever ticket demand; his performance was the most Googled in Coachella history. He also sold more merch in the first weekend than any other artist has over Coachella’s two weekends.Via his brand Skylrk, Bieber sold $5.04 million worth of product over weekend one of Coachella, beating the festival’s previous two-weekend record of $1.7 million across both weekends, the brand confirmed exclusively to Vogue Business.Bieber did have a leg up…

Born and raised in East London in the ’80s, the eldest of four daughters in a single-parent household, Emma Grede’s route into business was anything but easy. She dropped out of school at 16 and built her career from the ground up — first in fashion show and events production, before starting launching her talent management and entertainment agency, Independent Talent Brand (ITB).Today, Grede’s portfolio reads like a blueprint for cultural commerce: co-founder and CEO of Good American alongside Khloé Kardashian, founding partner and chief product officer of Skims with Kim Kardashian, co-founder of Safely alongside Kris Jenner and Chrissy Teigen,…

And despite being the punchline for a joke about an unimaginative Valentine’s Day gift, Jennifer Meyer’s engravable 18-karat gold nameplate necklace caught viewers’ attention. Several hundred pieces sold after the episode aired, the designer said, confirming that it was not a paid placement but rather an organic one, because she and Foster have been friends for years.“The whole point was to show LA in the way we love our town,” says the show’s costume designer, Negar Ali Kline, who has featured brands high and low, including Elder Statesman, Amiri, Jesse Kamm, Reformation, and Anita Ko. “I have so many DMs,”…

Dolce & Gabbana has confirmed that Stefano Gabbana has stepped down from his management positions in the Dolce & Gabbana group, but contrary to earlier reports, he has not ceased his creative activities.“As part of a natural evolution of its organizational structure and governance, the Dolce & Gabbana Group confirms that Stefano Gabbana has tendered his resignation, effective as of 1 January 2026, from his positions within Dolce & Gabbana Holding Srl, Dolce & Gabbana Trademarks Srl, and Dolce & Gabbana Srl,” the company said in a statement on Friday.“These resignations have no impact whatsoever on the creative activities carried…

Welcome to the Scoop: a weekly email series in which I quiz fashion insiders on the stories of the week. This will be a way for the Vogue Business community to synthesize and reflect on the latest headlines and get a little inside scoop every Friday.This week’s guest is Paul Smith’s Foundation director, Martha Mosse. The foundation was set up in 2020 to help build business resilience for emerging creatives, including but not limited to fashion designers. As part of that, in 2024, they launched a four-and-a-half-year initiative specifically for fashion designers called the Fashion Residency, which offers studio spaces…

The multi-brand stores are airy and filled with natural light, often with tall windows that look onto greenery outside and decorated with small bonsai trees or large rocks. There are art installations, too: currently, an electrokinetic sculpture of tiny metal rods by Venezuelan artist Elias Crespin hangs from the ceiling of its Hannam outpost. “It’s about exploring the beauty that surrounds us in many different areas, not just fashion,” says Lee.Last year, Amomento opened its first brand store outside South Korea, in Omotesando, a fashionable, tree-lined shopping district in Tokyo. It’s “going very well”, according to Lee; the brand had…

The brand avoided falling into the trap of burning cash on Facebook ads for cheap, only to get cornered as prices rose. “Over the last few years, we’ve pivoted to say, well, we can’t just be somewhat profitable. We need to be more profitable to continue investing in growth. I don’t want to raise more money right now,” Zuccarini says. “It’s tempting when everyone else is ‘growth at all costs’. We’re very thoughtful about what we need to do to achieve the level of expansion that we want on our terms.”Ad spend is tightly managed, and as performance marketing becomes…

When Fashion Trust launched in the United States in 2022, ahead of 2023’s inaugural ceremony, the environment for independent designers was tough. An economic crisis was driving costs through the roof, hitting small brands especially hard. The first crop of Fashion Trust US (FTUS) finalists expressed their need for more tangible means of support.Four years on, building — and maintaining — a brand is tougher still. Since 2023, multibrand online retailers Matches, Farfetch and Ssense have all filed for bankruptcy. Just one year after Saks acquired Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman at the end of 2024, forming Saks Global, the group…