Should Condé Nast Sell? Gucci & Hermès Safeguarding Supply Chain, Louis Vuitton Controversy

How Mickey Drexler Failed J. Crew, The Ill-Fated Style.com, Full Stack Fashion, Milan Menswear [View on Web]( [Add to contacts]( [New reader? Subscribe]( [BoF]( THE DAILY DIGEST SPONSORED BY [Riskified (June 19 only) 2017]( TODAY'S MUST READ [Luxury Brands Are Snapping Up Farms to Control their Supply Chains]( BY Georgina Safe [From Hermès to Gucci, brands are using vertical integration to safeguard the supply of expensive materials by acquiring farms of Merino sheep, crocodile, alligator and python.]( [Read more]( TOP STORIES [Should Condé Nast Sell Itself?]( BY BoF Team [With the demise of Style.com, the media giant has proven unable to tap the ‘tipping point’ in e-commerce. Now the same digital tsunami is coming for its core.]( [Read more]( [Op-Ed | How Small Will Beat Big and Save the Fashion Industry]( BY Lawrence Lenihan [The status quo spells certain death for design-driven brands unless they tap new technologies and Economies of Small, argues Lawrence Lenihan.]( [Read more]( [A Graphic Pradaworld]( BY Tim Blanks [In the face of so much conceptual complexity in her art world, Miuccia Prada opted for simplicity — the human touch — in her fashion world.]( [Read more]( [In Control at Versace]( BY Tim Blanks [The clothes felt a bit like old friends, pinstripes and rococo silk prints being pillars of Versace’s menswear for decades. But they’d been refreshed, untucked and reconstituted in new ways.]( [Read more]( [BoF Professionals Gather for UK Premiere of ‘Franca. Chaos & Creation’]( BY BoF Team [Members were the first to see the final cut of Francesco Carrozzini’s documentary on his late mother Franca Sozzani at our BoF Professional event in London.]( [Read more]( NEWS BRIEFS [Tod's Launches Men's Capsule Collection for Mr Porter]( [Luxury groups like Tod's have been coming under pressure from younger clients to present more collections, including exclusive capsule lines.]( [With Whole Foods, Amazon on Collision Course With Wal-Mart]( [Amazon and Wal-Mart's acquisitions make it clear that the lines that divided traditional retail from e-commerce are disappearing.]( [DAILY DIGEST Fashion News from Around the Web]( 1 [Revealed: The Romanian Site Where Louis Vuitton Makes Its Italian Shoes]( ["All but the soles of the luxury brand’s footwear are made in Transylvania before being ‘finished’ in Italy and France."]( Guardian]( 2 [Inside The Costly Fashion Faux Pas That Was Ill-Fated Style.com]( ["Fashion insiders have slammed Style.com as 'Anna Wintour’s greatest failure.'"]( Daily Telegraph]( 3 [How Mickey Drexler Failed J. Crew]( ["The era of the Merchant Prince is over, and the incoming CEO is tasked with reinventing the brand and reinvigorating relevancy with shoppers."]( Dive]( 4 [Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods]( ["The retailer’s $14 billion bet isn’t just about the future of food. It’s about the future of commerce—especially for rich urban consumers."]( Atlantic]( 5 [How Richard Avedon Redefined Beauty with “Dovima with Elephants”— and What Happened Next]( ["The Queens-born model Dovima became the template for high fashion in the 1950s, before her American Dream tale turned tragic."]( Fair]( FROM THE ARCHIVE [Fergus Purcell Creates 'Signifiers of Subculture']( BY Rebecca May Johnson [Fergus 'Fergadelic' Purcell is the graphics guru who works with Palace Skateboards and created the graphics for the closely watched debut collection of the rebooted Marc By Marc Jacobs.]( [Read more]( [Subscribe Were you forwarded this email? To subscribe to this newsletter, click below.]( for Free]( [BoF CAREERS - FEATURED JOBS]( [Sales Executive]( [Aeyde]( Berlin, Germany [Licensed Store Manager]( [Oliver Peoples]( Miami, United States [HR Analyst, Global]( [Jimmy Choo]( London, United Kingdom [PR Manager]( [Needle & Thread]( London, United Kingdom [WW Digital Assistant Buyer men's shoe]( [Gucci]( Milan, Italy [Ecommerce Customer Experience Manager]( [Veronica Beard]( New York, United States [View All Jobs]( Follow Us [The Business of Fashion]( [Sponsorship & Advertising]( [About]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Add to Address Book]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Edit Newsletter Subscriptions]( The Business of Fashion Moray House - 6th Floor · 23-31 Great Titchfield St London W1W 7PA · United Kingdom