Getting the shampoo treatment in Times Square | Andrew Dudum
Business

A $200M valuation, TV commercials, and billboards: A closer (critical) look at how Hims is fast-tracking the modern luxury playbook.

The men’s wellness upstart is (wisely) fast-tracking the DNVB playbook, but we’re worried whether a $200M valuation is justified for a consumer-facing brand that’s only four months into business.

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Goop, for one, has flourished by thinking customer-first | Goop 
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Ana Andjelic: Legacy retailers define strategy in competitive terms. Retail upstarts define it in terms of their customer.

To successfully compete in today’s customer-first context, retailers have to start thinking beyond incremental innovation. They must become comfortable with new models that cannibalize their business as it is right now.

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Pastels and Gen Y branding | Glossier
Business

Glossier goes global: Canada, the UK, and France are all on the docket.

Glossier is still only three years old, and is expanding internationally at a time when most older MLCs (modern luxury companies) and DTC brands are still only shipping domestically.

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