Fashion
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@lawrenceroman
Brands in the West are losing the plot.
Leadership in the West is failing shareholders by making siloed decisions disconnected from consumers.
Saks OFF 5th shutting down e-commerce to “drive store traffic” is 1995 logic.
Saks Fifth Avenue pulling off Amazon; one of its own investors: because it “hurts the brand” is pure 1985 nostalgia.
Meanwhile IKEA is closing stores in China to go lean and online-first.
Consumers already changed. Leadership in the west didn’t listen.
Business decisions require data, not emotion.
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@lawrenceroman
"How one man killed four retailers and what brands need to learn about who controls their distribution."
https://artofthebrand.substack.com/p/how-one-man-killed-four-retailers
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@viybz
NYC with the official “Lo Goose on The Deuce 2026” event.
This is for all my Polo Ralph Lauren heads.
https://youtu.be/Fd8NgyOWg-I?si=k6K_ICsRPXwdx1ok
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@0xlacroix
I love PMFW so much. They have the fun. The designs from LV, Dior, and YSL are so whimsy.
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@shira
I'll never forget watching Valentino: The Last Emperor at the Angelika with @soybean54 and him whispering almost 80% through the doc, "This is a mockumentary, right?"
Valentino was outrageous, specific, and so completely himself it caused others to rethink reality.
May his name be a blessing.
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@lawrenceroman
Sitting in traffic, I’m looking at a “Five Below” store on the corner of 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, a prime retail intersection three blocks from New York’s Fashion District, now occupied by a discounter, while Saks Fifth Avenue has filed for bankruptcy. It’s 2026. The “Made in USA” narrative is largely propaganda, most Americans have consistently chosen cheap goods over domestic production.
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@viybz
This was a quality watch.
Jeans are cool.
https://youtu.be/XeonrMEe3W0?si=CeZC0cK095rPIcJf
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@lawrenceroman
Happy New Year. Year of the Horse 🐎
Fitting, since it sounds like the year of prediction markets ... anyone remembers OTB? 😆
Anyone have the over/under on Saks Fifth Avenue filling for Bankruptcy?
Reading this Sears / Lampert article and getting Billions flashbacks.
Is this about Saks today…
or Billions doing a Sears cosplay?
Different cycle, same movie.
Retail as a balance sheet arc never dies.
Fashion Retail stops being a business the moment it becomes a balance sheet.
Saks future looks as tangle as this pic of an old Sears building in Bergen County.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/sears-seritage-edward-lampert.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.YR_d.b3sGNaA9aOx7&smid=nytcore-android-share
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@basement5k
Ralph Lauren went offensively hard on team USA’s Olympic gear. 🤌🏼
https://www.vogue.com/article/ralph-lauren-2026-team-usa-uniforms-winter-olympic-games
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@stellaachenbach
Hot combo, see-through organza floral lace dress, smokey grey sneakers, hot orange bag, accentuated make-up, and we are done ✅ .
I sometimes wish, it would be that easy 😆
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