Diego Segura

Here’s something I’m very thankful I was told while I was still in my 20s: that the point of all this “hard work” is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it “gets” you

Last fall, as the panic heated up, hardly anyone had heard of Meredith Whitney. ``I guess my clients knew who I was,'' she says, ``but the rest of the world -- I don't think so.''

The company personifies this era.And this was more or less [Weiss’] first real job, opening Into the Gloss and starting in Glossier, and then it became this, literally, billion dollar company, which is remarkable.

On a chilly morning in downtown Los Angeles, a week after my visit, I put on one of the hoodies Playboy gave me. As I was standing in line for a coffee, a young skateboarder complimented it. After thanking him, I couldn’t help but ask, “What does the Playboy bunny stand for, in your opinion?”

He paused for a while.

“Uhh,

I dunno.

Boobs?”

Ms. Velez first started filling up notebooks with fashion drawings around age 5, according to Ms. Church, and received her first sewing machine as a gift from a family friend at age 10. She took sewing classes at 12 (the instructor accepted only adults, initially, but Ms. Velez looked mature for her age, Ms. Church said). At 15 a local TV reporter... See more

It just makes me think, [the V.C.s] are bad at their job. It’s part of why Barbie is considered such an extreme thing, or a Taylor Swift concert. Men, and I mean largely white, cis men, think male culture is just culture. God forbid that they have to think about something that is not squarely targeted at them. That they can’t possibly try a... See more

The good news for Arnault is that he’s raised a highly accomplished group of five children—all of whom are in the business and doing well, by many accounts—from which to choose a successor. There is Delphine , his only daughter, who is 48, a member of the LVMH board and executive committee and the C.E.O. of Christian Dior Couture. Her brother,... See more

This started with the Seventh Avenue, shop-and-copy approach that has defined the industry, but no longer works with consumers on a global scale. America created the concept of lifestyle brands—it drove the rise of casualization as early as the 1950s, first through denim, then khakis, and now leggings. But the fashion itself has long been... See more