Articles by Kristopher Fraser
How employee experience impacts customer experience?
10 hours ago - Retail
It starts with a need for something new for your wardrobe. A customer might have an event coming up, just got a new job, or is just in the mood for some new clothes. Maybe they don’t have the time or patience for online shopping, but that’s where good old brick-and-mortar stores come in. Upon arrival at a store, a customer is typically greeted...
Does the middle market fashion consumer still exist?
5 Aug 2022 - Retail
New York - In their heyday, middle market mall brands reigned as royalty in American fashion and retail. The Gaps, Banana Republics, and J. Crews of the world were go-to apparel stores for those looking for everything from something casual to hang out with their friends to more formalwear in the case of Banana Republic and J. Crew. In the rising...
Palomo Spain, Raf Simons, and Giles Deacon will design the new costumes for the New York City Ballet
1 Aug 2022 - Fashion
On Wednesday, September 28, the tenth annual Fall Fashion Gala at New York City Ballet will take place in New York City. The event will be vice chaired by actress Sarah Jessica Parker, whose known for helping raise funds for artistic institutions. She's also a donor for the annual Met Gala for the Metropolitan Museum, known as "The Superbowl of...
Top luxury brands for M&A targets
29 Jul 2022 - Business
Mergers and acquisitions can be some of the most dramatic and costly transactions in the entire fashion industry. They also get the public talking, so while they aren’t moves meant for publicity, they keep PR departments busy. In 2018, when Michael Kors acquired Versace for 2.12 billion dollars, forming Capri Holdings, it was one of the biggest...
What are the opportunities for Fashion in Web3
29 Jul 2022 - Fashion
We are in the Web3 renaissance. A quick definition of Web3 is “an online ecosystem based on blockchain.” While blockchain isn’t doing too well right now in terms of the crypto market (cryptocurrency is sinking like the Titanic currently), that doesn’t mean the growth of the metaverse and new social media channels is slowing down. Some components...
Environmentalism fueling conversation around circular fashion
29 Jul 2022 - Fashion
Sustainability. It’s a word that the fashion industry has been tossing around for quite some time, so much so it’s a point where greenwashing is now a hot topic, and the term sustainability has lost some of its credibility. Greenwashing aside, the conversation around sustainability isn’t going anywhere, but now circularity has entered the chat....
What’s next for modernizing physical retail?
29 Jul 2022 - Retail
For close to a decade now, brick-and-mortar has been treated like it was some dinosaur that would slowly go extinct. It was like a cow someone was going to put out to pasture. It was your grandparent before you put them in a nursing home. The rise of e-commerce and online shipping did chip away at some of brick-and-mortar’s position as the...
The rise in plant-based leather alternatives
29 Jul 2022 - Fashion
To this day, leather is one of the most coveted and standard brand materials in fashion. Leather is also the material behind some of the most coveted luxury brands in the world from the Hermès Birkin to the Chanel 2.55. Leather shoes, like virtually any men’s loafer from Salvatore Ferragamo, are also a status symbol. Leather has long had its...
Anouk Wipprecht and Jaya Iyer on a fashion and STEM mission
28 Jul 2022 - Fashion
The worlds of fashion and science, technology, engineering, and math have existed very separately. Fashion is seen as an artistic field and STEM is, well, STEM. Never was it thought the two would ever be bedfellows. However, Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht and SvahaUSA founder Jaya Iyer are on a mission to change that. Wipprecht recently...
How e-commerce data solutions can help brand growth
27 Jul 2022 - Business
The global e-commerce market is set to exceed 5 trillion dollars this year and increase to over 7 trillion dollars by 2025. This is in part due to the growth of next-generation artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics tools, along with software-assisted supply chain management. Next-generation e-commerce data analytics stand to...