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Gen Z Finds Its Own Unique Path to Purchase
Sometimes it’s a new path, sometimes it’s an old one. Here’s a very personal, Gen Z, view of shopping that underscores how fresh and new even long-term retail practices are to young consumers. Retailers that do not see their shopping experience through young eyes risk losing relevance, and growth opportunities....Learn More
How Instagram and a New Zeitgeist Are Driving Skin Care's Growth
By Peter Born // WWD, July 23 2018 The skin-care race is revving up. The category’s rally, which got rolling roughly 18 months ago, is steadily gaining momentum. Sales of prestige treatment products are running 14 percent ahead in the U.S. for the latest 12-month period, ended in May, according to the...Learn More
Sephora CEO Hunt Highlights Beauty's Radical Evolution
By Allison Collins // WWD, July 26 2018 The departure of former president and chief executive officer of Sephora North America Calvin McDonald leaves Sephora with a big hole to fill. McDonald, who has led Sephora through beauty’s digital revolution, is leaving the business after five years to take the ceo role at...Learn More
The Store Still Matters to Consumers Along with Digital
In our latest shopper study, “Benchmarking The Future”, what is evident is this: over the last decade, we’ve digitized, we’ve “omnied”, we’ve “niched” and we’ve socialized. It has been important to do that. Many shoppers do want digital tools and omni-channel access, and new ways of connecting to each other,...Learn More
Kate Spade & Fashion’s Crisis: When a Name Makes a Brand
By Tiffany Hsu // The New York Times, June 6, 2018 Soon after fans of Kate Spade learned that the designer had died in an apparent suicide on Tuesday, stunned customers remembered the handbags they purchased after their first big promotion, or the linens they were given for their first home, or...Learn More
Melania Trump’s Jacket Shocked Many, Statement Clothes is in
By Abha Bhattarai // Washington Post, June 21 2018 Just as the controversy over her husband’s immigration policies had begun to cool off, first lady Melania Trump touched off a new backlash. As she boarded a plane for Texas to visit immigrant children who were separated from their families at the border, a message blared from her...Learn More