This Week's Topics:

How to Help 🧡 And Not Give Up
Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial Fashions
Rich Fashion and Succession
New Launches, Collabs, Investments & New Appointments
What else I ❤️️

How to Help 🧡 And Not Give Up

Sending 🧡 to Nashville, but also feeling overwhelmed. When is our country finally going to do something about our gun problem? If you are having a hard time wondering what to do here are some resources:
- Cup of Jo shared 6 ways to help
- Emily in Your Phone on Instagram has the simple steps broken down of what to do. This one too.
enough. Shop Everytown's collection on Social Goods to support their movement.
Jewelry Designer Brent Neale sold $100K worth of her mushroom earrings and sent the full amount to Everytown. She did all this from an Instagram stories post.
Lingua Franca and others posted about how we might organize and strike via @chezlesaubergers.

Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial Fashions

How is this even a headline? But seriously, we've been talking about "low key rich b!&ch" fashion for a few weeks here in my previous newsletter, this Love List newsletter and this Town and Country Magazine article. Well now we are seeing it come to life in two ways. First, the Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial (update, just ended and as The Cut says, Gwynnocent.)
Gwyneth's Caddis glasses got a lot of attention.
She's worn simple, elegant and stylish clothing. Pure luxury but with no logos. Many of her pieces are from her own Goop line. NYTimes Vanessa Friedman wrote about her styling for the trial here. (Yes, I am writing about an article dissecting fashion for a trial - what is happening this week?)
I have a minor speculation that the headlines and backlash she got the week before the trial started over this interview with her "diet" was hoping to shock and awe people in the GP way to take away from the headlines that were coming with the Ski Trial. But I think in the end it did more damage and the Ski Trial was actually not that bad for her image. It felt like more of a farce overall. (As in "I lost half a day of skiing.")

Via @jessnellgraves we are identifying and meme'ing the GP fashion from her recent ski trial.

Rich Fashion and Succession

And now we move from Rich Fashion and Gwyneth Paltrow to Succession. The first episode had a big fashion moment that social media had a field day with.
Tom's line about a "ludicrously capacious" bag that was very clearly Burberry sent search queries spiking for it. More here in WWD. And some other companies took advantage of the moment (like this tote.)
Amy Odell wrote a great recap for her newsletter of the fashion breakdown from the Season 4 Premiere.
I don't expect to see anyone toting around the obvious Burberry ludicrously capacious bag unless it is ironic. I do think a lot of the searches were to tag it or grab an image for memes and social media.

New Launches, Collabs & New Appointments

Launched
- Banana Republic launches a home collection
- Hanky Panky expands from intimate apparel and launches swim
- Lululemon launches on Net-A-Porter. This feels noteworthy. This is coming after Lululemon had a strong Holiday season.
Collabed
- Newest Target collections announced. Rhode, Fe Noel and Agua Bendita.
- Gucci x Vans
- Beyoncé and Balmain's Olivier Rousteing co-design a collection.
- Larroudé x Lingua Franca on simple hotel style bedroom slippers
- E.L.F. collabed with American Eagle jeans.
- Lake Pajamas x Blair Eadie.
- Christian Louboutin designs an exclusive collection for Neiman Marcus.
Invested
- True Botanicals raises a Series B.
Hired
- Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette is retiring and Bloomingdale's CEO Tony Spring will step into parent company Macy's as the new CEO. (I'm excited for Tony Spring! I enjoyed working for him at Bloomingdale's.) For more of what Macy’s is up to, the head of stores interviewed in the Modern Retail podcast
- Bloomingdale's names Denise Magid as their Chief Merchant. This new for Bloomingdale's role is to align with other department stores and retailer executive C Suite.

What else I ❤️️

The fact that I care about socks again feels worth noting. Everything Old Is New Again: Gloves, Hosiery, & Socks
I enjoyed this documentary on supply & demand, operations and Disney.
Law Roach and his announcement that he is retiring from styling has been much talked about - here is the interview with The Cut.
I’ve seen these shoes tagged at least four times in the last week by different people. Which tells me they will be something important this spring/summer.
Full on Taylor Swift fan here. Vogue writes about her fashion for the tour here.
McKinsey Consulting dive on fashion and how the industry should shift.
Launchmetrics shares with WWD the data from fashion weeks across the globe.
More details about the upcoming Met Costume Institute exhibit on Karl Lagerfeld.
Fashion Designer Jeremy Scott is leaving Moschino. He has been the creative director since 2013.
The Atlantic wrote about the comfortable sneaker and shoe trend.
New CEO John Koryl spoke with Business of Fashion regarding how they are managing the path to profitability including new revenue streams.
Sometimes things aren’t what they seem. Did you think the image of the Pope in a white puffy coat was real?
The Hollywood Reporter shared their list of the 25 top stylist and tastemakers.
Cassandra's breakdown of trends in resale.

What's Next?

Thanks for reading along on the fashion, retail and merchandising side because this is the fun stuff for me. We are already in spring break styles and we know full on summer is right around the corner.

Thanks for reading Edition 131.
Sarah Shapiro