- With Prime Wardrobe, Amazon is launching a try-before-you-buy clothing service.
- Mickey Drexler is stepping down as CEO of J.Crew after 14 years.
- Banana Republic has teamed up with Piece & Co — a company that creates socially and environmentally-sustainable fabrics — for a limited-edition Summer capsule collection.
- Anita Pallenberg, style icon and rock ‘n’ roll muse, has passed away at age 73.
- Less than a year after Condé Nast relaunched Style.com as a fashion e-commerce site, the company is closing the business and forging a new strategic partnership with Farfetch.
- Online resale site Thredup is planning to open five brick-and-mortar stores by the end of the year.
- According to digital marketing firm SEMRush, ASOS is the world’s most popular e-commerce fashion site.
- The Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has announced it’s adopting a fur-free policy.
- At the 2017 CFDA Awards, Raf Simons won both Menswear and Womenswear Designer of the Year. He’s the first designer to receive both honours in one night since Calvin Klein took home the titles in 1993.
Fun Fashion Fact
Did you know that Virginia Woolf coined the phrase “frock consciousness.” In general, it means being aware that how you dress is part of the image you present to the world. Virginia Woolf “used it to refer to the way she employed clothing to denote character, and changes in character, particularly as they applied to her book “Mrs. Dalloway.” This is just one of the topics discussed in Terry Newman’s book “Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore“, which “examines how the sartorial choices authors make are deeply connected to the narrative choices they make.” I’m putting it on my Summer reading list right now.