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Elizabeth SegranFast Company |
Fresh off a bankruptcy rescue and a massive retail overhaul, Claire’s is redesigning 900 stores to capture the long-neglected tween market.
The new device deliberately avoids the addictive tricks built into most kids’ screens.
The Ralph Lauren x Gee’s Bend collection is the brand’s latest collaboration with historic American craft communities.
After launching as a standalone consumer app, the startup Daydream is embedding natural-language search directly into websites like Alice Olivia and...
At Oxman’s NYC studio, engineered E. coli bacteria grows pigments onto knitted fabric, resulting in no two garments that look alike.
As parents grow wary of addictive apps, Tonies has partnered with Hasbro to turn Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Guess Who into games kids can play...
Think of it as a Band-Aid for kids’ clothes.
Her new brand, Buff Beauty, makes the case that the healthiest, best-looking nail is a bare one—and that the salon was always optional.
The megaretailer is doubling down on its design ambitions with a slate of cool fashion collabs.
Away’s millennial customers grew up and had kids. Now the company is making bags for their tweens.
State Street, the company that commissioned her, is launching a website and merchandise line.
Shelly Xu Designs uses AI to reengineer clothing patterns, cutting fabric waste to near zero—without asking factories or consumers to change a thing.
The Sabré brothers turned their cutting-room floor scraps into covetable bag charms. They believe the whimsy—and sustainability—they’re...
With his app Pie, Bonobos founder Andy Dunn is betting that Gen Z doesn’t want another aspirational brand—it wants real friends.
We’re in a trade-down economy. These four lessons are helping retailers win both affluent and lower-income consumers as the rules of shopping...
If agentic commerce is to fulfill its potential, it has to do more than shop for boring, everyday products. Google, OpenAI, the social media giants,...
The company’s Direct Listings marketplace finally gives sellers control over their most special pieces.
The retail giant is entering the food delivery wars, combining its in-store restaurant partnerships with its last-mile know-how to take on Uber Eats...
A global alliance of businesses, governments, and designers just unveiled a universal mark for reuse—and it could reshape how the world handles waste.
Herman Miller is introducing a new Aeron chair that uses recycled nylon, bio-based plastics, and a lighter aluminum base to cut its carbon footprint...
The stationery store where people can buy original designs from artists is launching an experiment to allow customers to use AI to add custom elements...
Customers wanted a smart ring that looked like jewelry, not a gadget. Oura spent years rebuilding its hardware from the inside out to deliver one.
Michael Preysman is building a new brand—this time without venture capital or private equity.
Caddis founder Tim Parr built an eyewear company on the un-American idea that getting older might be a good thing—and the cultural moment is finally...
Literati has spent years rebuilding the elementary school book fair into something closer to an art installation. Now, with an acquisition by private...
Resale used to be seen as a threat. Now companies like Woom, Lovevery, and Hanna Andersson have discovered it’s one of their cheapest customer...
Everlane spent a decade championing sustainable and ethical fashion. Its reported $100 million sale to the industry’s worst polluter is a...
A 20-year retrospective of couture from fashion’s most interesting designer lands at the Brooklyn Museum.
Cards that prompt more intimate conversations are gaining traction in a moment of increased social isolation.
Control shopping, control the world. How leaders at Google and OpenAI are thinking about the AI-powered future of shopping—and when it’ll be here.
After two years of development, Ruggable engineered a machine-washable rug that captures jute’s textured warmth.
Fashion’s biggest night, funded by Jeff Bezos, has a counter-show—and the models are Amazon workers.
Gap just pulled off one of retail’s most impressive comebacks. Now Lululemon needs the same magic.
The 12-year-old outdoor brand will send you swappable parts and tools, so a broken wheel or busted latch doesn’t have to end a trip—or the bag’s life.
The Park’s Sarah Bonello is using obsessive material sourcing and timeless design to change the way women think about their wardrobe.
The retail giant has quietly transformed itself into a digital powerhouse, and in the process has been winning over Amazon’s most valuable shoppers.
After tripling revenue under Calvin McDonald, Lululemon turns to a longtime Nike executive to reignite growth.
Australian luggage brand July’s Capsule carry-on ditches the clamshell for a top-down design—an innovation the company hopes will keep it alive...
The retail giant is fixing a consumer sentiment gap between the quality of its 10,000 Great Value products and their look, one package at a time.
Madison Reed built a better box of hair dye—then a chain of salons, a wholesale business, and a devoted membership base. Now it’s coming for the...
Neighbor made its name selling beautiful, design-forward outdoor furniture. Its new $4,500 wood-burning chiminea might be its most ambitious statement...
Mattel is bringing back the original designs of eight characters for American Girl’s 40th anniversary. But the real question isn’t whether...
A former automotive engineer left his job to solve the most overlooked problem in your kitchen. The result is beautiful, functional—and expensive.
AI infrastructure is the biggest construction boom in a generation, but what happens to workers at the far end of the supply chain?
It’s the first Caraway product that isn’t about cooking—and it signals something much bigger about where the brand is headed.
The home furnishings retailer tapped the 24-year-old tastemaker to evolve its midcentury DNA for a new generation.
The dupe-culture darling just raised $500 million. I ask its first head of brand and narrative how she’s positioning the brand for hyper growth.
A new collaboration between Lela Rose and the luxury cowboy boots brand Lucchese suggests that the Western look is no longer a trend, but a staple in...
The retailer is betting on design and in-store delight to reverse years of declining sales. But in a trade-down economy, that playbook may be...
The 53-year-old maker of the best-selling travel guide wants to enhance your travel experience with an app.
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