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Paul Schneider: The in-store retail experience remains consumers' preferred way to shop but is hard to stay relevant without a strong online component WWD: How would you describe your buy and your store's perspective on fine jewelry? Independent fine jewelry retailers speak to WWD about the challenges and pleasures of running a small business Brick-and-mortar retail lives or dies by how good the customer experience is in store, and there is no bigger factor in that than the sales team the customer interacts with. Where clients used to use in store as a showcase and then shop online, we're seeing the reverse, online driving sales in store. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: ILLUSTRATIONS BY KYLE HILTON The Essentialist 1 Sense of Immediacy It started as a snowball, but transforming fashion shows into consumer events is starting to look more like an [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Photograph by COREY OLSEN Prop stylist: MAYA LANER By Mail TURNING THE PAGE Some of this year's crazy catalogue finds. Though holiday shopping may be trending [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Photograph by ERIC HELGAS Red Hot The price of precious Mediterranean red coral jewelry is soaring under unprecedented Chinese demand. But overfishing and environmental changes have [...]

Byline: EDITED BY TAYLOR HARRIS AND ERIK MAZA Photographs by Steve Eichner MISTY WHITE SIDELL Trés Chic Nile Rodgers and Chic whipped the Hamptons scene into a frenzy. SAT AUG [...]

Byline: - MISTY WHITE SIDELL Faking It Canal Street's famous row of counterfeit handbag dealers seems to have gone contemporary. The one-time go-to for fake Louis Vuitton bags is now [...]

Byline: BY ALLY BETKER, ERIK MAZA AND MISTY WHITE SIDELL ILLUSTRATIONS BY STUDIO MUTI Partying on the High Seas The fashion set has found its sea legs, trading summer fetes [...]

Byline: EDITED BY DIANNE M. POGODA By MISTY WHITE SIDELL Saddle Up Once-coveted bags and other accessories from the John Galliano era at Christian Dior are gaining renewed favor in [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Illustration by CARLOS MONTEIRO JCK: The New Look Vendors will reveal plenty of initiatives at the show, which has its own improved style. CARLOS MONTEIRO The [...]

Byline: EDITED BY DIANNE M. POGODA By MISTY WHITE SIDELL Photographs by GEORGE CHINSEE Square Peg Square-toe shoes have made a comeback on runways, and some fashion-forward retailers are loving [...]

Byline: EDITED BY DIANNE POGODA By MISTY WHITE SIDELL Photo Illustration by JULIEN PACAUD Big Blue Kashmir sapphires are among the rarest gems in the world, and with no new [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Hats Off to Patricia Underwood Patricia Underwood's four-decade-long career will be celebrated this spring with the release of a retrospective Rizzoli book, 'Patricia Underwood: The Way [...]

MEMO PAD SOCIAL STANDING: Although social media popularity does not necessarily correlate to company health or, in the case of media, advertising dollars, the Magazine Media Industry released its first [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL De la Renta Broadens Eyewear Contract NEW YORK - Oscar de la Renta has expanded its eyewear-licensing contract with Allure, a subsidiary of Marchon Eyewear Inc. [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL and LAUREN MCCARTHY Pondering Reed Krakoff: How Did It Go Wrong? Reed Krakoff has accomplished a lot in the past decade. He transformed Coach into a [...]

FASHION SCOOPS IN THE PINK: Karl Lagerfeld has a good excuse for skipping the mega retrospective about his fashions opening to the public on Saturday in Bonn, Germany: The in-demand [...]

Byline: - MISTY WHITE SIDELL 120 AND COUNTING Swarovski kicked off a year's worth of 120th-anniversary celebrations in New York on Tuesday evening with a mini-retrospective. Thirteen of the company's [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Maison Kitsuné Explores Accessories Maison Kitsuné, a clothing and music label that prides itself on strong Parisian roots, is applying its classic Gallic persona to accessories, [...]

FASHION SCOOPS BURBERRY'S WEST COAST RETURN: Burberry will throw its splashiest L.A. party to date when it rolls out the plaid carpet April 16 at the Griffith Observatory. The celebration [...]

FASHION SCOOPS HOUSTON CALLING: The Webster plans to open its first store outside Miami Beach in November at the Houston Galleria. The 5,000-square-foot store will occupy part of a freestanding [...]

Byline: Misty White Sidell On the Handbag Wagon Contemporary brands are jumping into the leather-goods fray. The Contemporary Market, now rife with apparel, has set its sights on bags as [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Eckhaus Latta Lands Deal With Nike iD NEW YORK - Fish-oil capsule pendants strung on rose gold, stacked Air Jordans, riffs on Timberlands, and fake orthodontic [...]

Byline: MISTY WHITE SIDELL Vacheron Constantin Opens in Miami The Miami design district is boosting its cachet as a collectors' haven once more. Vacheron Constantin will today open its doors [...]

Byline: Misty White Sidell Design schools' senior shows are a coming-out for fresh talent. Prepare to meet the new Marc Jacobs. Like the spring and fall shows that drive the [...]

Byline: Misty White Sidell Versace hired one of the London design scene's brightest stars. London's growing cadre of young design talent has started to infiltrate fashion's big-business brands. The city's [...]

Byline: Misty White Sidell A Met fashion exhibit juxtaposes anarchy with esteem. THAT THE punk movement, nearly 40 years after it was born, will be feted at this year's annual [...]

When news broke in WWD last monththat Hermès is planning a permanentlarge-format store in Williamsburg, it felt tomany like the flashy cherry atop decades ofhead-spinning gentrification. FASHION * A look at Williamsburg, Brooklyn's head-spinningtrajectory from industrial zone to hipster haven and now -- ahome for Hermès Walk into any store in Williamsburg rightnow and the shopkeepers know what'scoming -- as do the bakers, artists andlongtime residents that provide vibrancyin what has become one of New York City'smost altered neighborhoods. Hermès, as revealed by WWD lastmonth, is so intent on Williamsburg that itplans to open a pop-up store in early 2023as it prepares a larger and morepermanent space for opening in 2026(although New York is a focus for the brandgenerally; it will open a 20,0 00-square-footflagship on Madison Avenue inSeptember). The emergenceof the Manhattan, Williamsburg andBrooklyn Bridges at the turn of the 20thcentury caused Williamsburg -- which wasalready home to more than 30 craft beerbreweries established by Germanimmigrants -- to swell with population. [Extracted from the article]

Butdespite eyewear's all-time popularity,business owners are struggling withtechnicians, staffing and keeping up withthe technology necessary to compete withthe big stores. VISION EXPO EAST PREVIEW WWD speaks with seven optical shops from citiesspanning New Orleans to Sherwood Park, Alberta When Vision Expo East descends onNew York City, so does a litany ofspecialized optical shop owners fromacross North America. K.R.: Independent optical boutiques havenot traditionally participated ine-commerce, but now indie eye shops arelikely to be left behind if they do not displaytheir offerings online. [Extracted from the article]

Here, WWD goes inside five stores thatexemplify shopping in New York City atthis moment, as each experiences theholiday shopping craze in its own way. BUSINESS * It's the year of Japanese meditation candles,hand-welded bracelets and mushroom-shaped earrings. WWDplants itself in five distinct New York City stores during theholiday shopping craze to see what people are buying Where are people shopping this holidayseason in New York City?. [Extracted from the article]

A.T.: The biggest triumph and joy to me asa business owner in jewelry has beengathering with my clients and designersagain. J.G.: Diamond fashion jewelry is verystrong right now, being driven by classicstyles made relevant again by a newgeneration of influencers and celebritieswearing reimagined diamond classics liketennis bracelets and necklaces. WATCHES & JEWELRY WWD speaks with six independent jewelry stores ontrends, running a small business and shoppingbehaviors to look out for this holiday season. [Extracted from the article]