With the goal of giving emerging fashion designers access to professionals and insight on how to show their collections and develop their business models, the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator at Macy’s and the Fashion Group International of ...
Written by Nancy Miller, M. Ed., Instructor of Fashion Merchandising; Associate Chair & Hilda Alfonso, Lecturer of Fashion Merchandising
Petra, the awesome Arabian desert city carved into sheer rock, has been selected by Travel & Leisure magazine as one of its 2017 “25 Trips of a Lifetime.” Petra was built in the third century BC by the nomadic Nabataean tribe who made it their ...
What is a LBD (“little black dress”) without a fabulous pair of earrings, or a statement necklace, a Spanish scarf (and fan please), or a rhinestone clutch? You know where I’m going. Coco Chanel made the LBD the must-have staple of a fashionable ...
If it’s August, while many are spending the last weeks of summer on the beach and postponing thoughts of the Back-to-School season with its necessary apparel and supplies purchases, retail analysts are desk bound dissecting earnings reports and ...
Customer Lifetime Value “CLV” and why it matters
The beauty business, like most retail categories in department stores, has been in a state of disruption for most of the 21st century. As the department store channel consolidated and contracted, a process that began in the 1990s, beauty brands saw ...
It's mid-July, it must be time to think about back-to-school purchases. Many retailers have been planning for this productive selling season, second only to the holiday selling season, since October 2016, though shoppers aren't earnestly in the ...