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Harris Tapper founders Sarah Harris Gould and Lauren Tapper aren’t quite sure how it happened, but New York makes up 10% of their New Zealand-based brand’s overall sales.Built to fit into the modern woman’s daily life — from work, to school drop-off, to dinner and drinks — Harris Tapper’s pieces are a play on everyday basics, with an edge and flare meant to stand out, rather than seamlessly blend. “Our core pillar is easy elegance. Our pieces, there’s something special and unique about them, but it’s still a shirt. You need those things to carry you through the day,” Tapper says.The mysterious…

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 fashion sourcing pioneer and Vogue columnist Gab Waller. Originally from Australia, Gab was on vacation in LA back in 2018, shopping on Rodeo Drive, when she realized the stock there was very different from the product offered back home. Three months later, she launched her fashion sourcing business and made the…

Paris Fashion Week Men’s Spring/Summer 2027 season – running June 23 to 28 – is kicking off this summer in the middle of the 2026 Fifa World Cup, with a more jam-packed schedule than recent seasons.The schedule packs in plenty compared to previous seasons, with 74 brands listed – featuring 36 shows and 38 presentations. The men’s Fall/Winter 2026 schedule featured 67 brands across 35 shows and 32 presentations.Elsewhere, Celine’s Michael Rider and Givenchy’s Sarah Burton will be making their men’s runway debuts, and Meryll Rogge, who was named creative director of Marni last year, will present her first menswear…

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the buzz extended well beyond the big screen.Aside from the 22 movies in competition this edition, which ran from May 12 to 23, sectors such as jewelry, wellness, and tech expanded their presence along La Croisette. As for fashion, luxury houses continued to play to their strengths, through red carpet dressing and longstanding partnerships.While this year’s Cannes Film Festival felt noticeably more subdued ahead of next year’s 80th-anniversary edition, Hollywood’s film presence was lighter than usual, giving a nice play to both auteurs and international cinema. Though a number of Hollywood stars still turned…

Italian fashion designer Giambattista Valli has acquired full ownership of his brand from Artémis, the holding company of the Pinault family that controls Kering.“We have been delighted to support Mr. Giambattista Valli and to stand behind such a singular and demanding creative vision. After years of an inspiring collaboration, a new chapter is now opening in this entrepreneurial adventure, and I wish Giambattista every success in the next stage of his journey,” François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Groupe Artémis, said in a statement. Financial terms were not disclosed.The designer added that he would like to thank “Artémis for its…

“I am so sorry, I can’t go anywhere in New York,” Rachel Senott says, satirically shrugging off the paparazzo she paid to pap her in a Manhattan park. This is just one of the funny moments in recent micro-drama The Scene, a three-minute movie conceived by Marc Jacobs to promote its latest bag of the same name.Originating in China around 2021, and known locally as duanju, micro-dramas are scripted, easily digestible video series — but their impact is anything but small. Figures released by the Chinese government last year show that half of all internet users in the country have…

When I first visited Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (MBFW) Tbilisi in 2018, the city was full of creative optimism. Demna, a famous Georgian fashion export, was making waves at Balenciaga and Vetements, and plenty of eyes were on the capital, scouting for the next breakout star. Designers, drag performers, and club kids alike were collaborating on subversive, politically charged shows and events, culminating in an output that was an electric mélange of queer culture, performance, and bold resistance to the nation’s Soviet roots.But MBFW Tbilisi has taken place intermittently over the years since. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the nation’s right-wing…

Once upon a time, producing anything — from products and campaigns, to websites and brand worlds — took time and money. Those constraints created natural barriers to entry, while the friction of the making process forced brands to refine their approaches to craft and develop a real point of view. But with the rise of AI, this is no longer the case.Content that once required significant human input can now be generated more easily and cheaply, raising the risk of sameness, or what some critics have dubbed “AI slop”. And at the same time, it is reinforcing an industry pattern that…

Cult Gaia is gearing up for a Euro summer. The brand’s first pop-up of the season opened this week in Cannes, while in St. Tropez, a follow-on from its successful run in the Riviera town last summer is soon to open its doors, just before the brand heads to Ibiza’s Jondal beach club. It’s all part of founder Jasmin Larian Hekmat’s plan to build out the Cult Gaia universe.The brand is fresh from a milestone year. Cult Gaia finished fiscal 2025 with $100 million in revenues, versus $75 million the year prior, a sharp uptick that the founder credits to…

In an endless race for relevance, since the short-form video boom of the early 2020s, brands and consumers have been stuck in an endless scroll. With fast trends, faster edits and even faster algorithms, for years, brands chased virality across TikTok and Instagram, while creators were pushed toward increasingly relentless production cycles. Now, the industry is beginning to shift once again.As audience behavior fragments and creators grow wary of building followings entirely dependent on algorithmic reach, YouTube is reasserting itself as a key player. Over 2.7 billion people worldwide use YouTube every month, making it the world’s second most-visited platform…