Check out on Vogue Business how marketing executives are speeding up their transition to the digital realm and stepping toward TikTok to reach audiences.
Now Hiring: Supply Planning Associate
We are looking for a Supply Planning Temporary Associate for our awesome footwear client. This is an exciting remote role that goes from January-June 2021. As a member of the Supply Chain and Demand Planning team, you will be responsible for analyzing historical data and identify current trends to build and present the unconstrained demand forecast to cross functional teams: Finance, Sales, and Merchandising. Your role will play an imperative piece of the Supply Chain business as your analysis and findings will have a direct impact on shipment forecasting, style and color forecasts. The purpose is to enable creativity and inspire youth culture by celebrating and embracing the client's values in all aspects of our work.
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Gucci x The RealReal Partner Together!
Gucci and The RealReal partner together for an incredible collaboration! Vogue’s article says that Gucci is going to have an “e-shop stocked with consignors’ items as well as merchandise brought in directly from Gucci.” If you are obsessed with The RealReal and Gucci as much as we are, then you too are excited for all of the pieces that will be in housed in Gucci’s e-shop.
The North Face X Gucci Collaboration
Italian luxury fashion house Gucci has revealed that it is teaming up with iconic American outerwear brand The North Face for a collaboration.
Los Angeles' Fashion Industry is Returning
We are seeing signs of a revival in the fashion industry in LA lately. Its timing couldn’t be more welcome to those businesses, employees, and job seekers who have all been on a Covid-induced hiatus.
“Life is coming back to Downtown Los Angeles,” said Andrew Asch, retail editor for the California Apparel News trade newspaper, who lives and works in Downtown Los Angeles. Paul Smith’s long-awaited boutique opened in Downtown Los Angeles in July, and the outdoor cafes such as Urth and Zinque have been packed through Summer 2020. Throughout the pandemic, work on the fashion district’s sprawling construction projects hasn’t stopped.
However, downtown Los Angeles is still recovering from the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders. The once-bustling streets of Downtown Los Angeles have not yet been restored to their same pace of action. Some downtown storefronts are still boarded up months after rioting took place in downtown May 30. Los Angeles showed signs of solidarity immediately after the riots, Asch said. “Storeowners told me about how many of their neighbors helped them protect their shops and how many people helped them clean-up.”
A busy Los Angeles fitting model, Jody Carlson-Astrom, is back at fittings in Downtown Los Angeles. The support from her husband, family, and friends, keeping up her routines with exercise, and going to work kept her feeling normal during the pandemic. Carlson-Astrom said, “It’s never been if you will get through a situation in life together because you will, but it is how you will get through it together." Many of her regular accounts are opening up fitting schedules for both delayed and forward-deliveries, as she continues to create the needed schedules.
While many companies are back intermittently working in-house, a designer for a major retailer who we spoke with is back at work, choosing to be in the office. Staffing is leaner due to budget cuts and layoffs, and the employees that do WFH/remote now and are very happy about it. They find it to be more productive at home (less meetings and fewer interruptions). The pace and calendar are amping back up to the normal pre-Covid— very busy with the usual deadlines.
Rebecca Marion, senior designer at Planet Blue, continued working through the pandemic, with a real compulsion toward a traditional standard of daily productivity, she recognized the newly open schedule as a unique opportunity to pursue other avenues of growth. Since the industry has been erratic, she took some courses on Coursera and then Logocore in graphic design and branding. “It amounted to many hours of homework, a lot of which was welcome as it was much more hands-on art and in many different mediums than are part of my current creative career,” Marion said.
All in all, we are seeing an uptick in the LA fashion industry. Not only are people looking to get back to work, but companies are making strides to open their businesses and storefronts. Some are beginning to hire additional staff as they move forward. All progress is welcome for an industry that has weathered the storm and is ready to keep the positive momentum rolling.
Masks: The Greatest Fashion Accessory Right Now
These days, scrolling through Instagram feeds show endless ads for companies selling face masks. It’s as if overnight, the face mask has become the new hottest fashion accessory. It's no surprise that the protective face coverings we've been advised (and in some cases, ordered) to wear outdoors to curb the spread of coronavirus, have quickly been embraced and beautified by the fashion world. Celebrities, social media influencers, and fashion designers have been instrumental in driving product demand. Across the world, designers and retailers are enthused by the emergency existent in this space and they are making the pivot. Many are donating as many as they sell or a portion of the profits. It is estimated that the global fashion face mask market size is expected to reach USD 2.38 billion by 2027. That is a whole lot of revenue for this newest accessory that the fashion industry is jumping on.
For the consumer, face masks may still feel like an unusual addition to our daily routines because of the way they conceal the parts of ourselves that are normally exposed, but that doesn't mean our identities have to be hidden too. The cloth face mask has become a chance to make a fashion statement without compromising on personal style. Face masks have become fashion accessories, even statement pieces … it’s an entirely new form of self-expression! If people feel good about how they look in a face mask, we hope that they will be more likely to wear one. And that maybe, a dose of good design will bring people some happiness during this difficult time.
Looking for fashionable face masks to match your style? Check out these brands below that offer eye-catching and stylish face masks for all occasions.
The Little Project ( gorgeous matching scarf/mask duo as seen in above)
Mizzen+Main - Great men’s performance fabric and style-driven masks.
Mizzen+ Main
Stay safe in style with these fashionable mask options from some of our fashion clients.
To learn more about the clients Emerging Blue supports in the fashion industry click here.
