
Fashion school without fashion school: the routes that actually work
Degrees are one door into design. Patternmaking, trade skills, and digital tools are three others — and each has a different price tag.
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Degrees are one door into design. Patternmaking, trade skills, and digital tools are three others — and each has a different price tag.

The retailer's new discovery-led beauty format carries more than 1,600 products from 90 brands, most new to Target. One of them is built to end shade-matching guesswork.

Behind every "authenticated" listing is a mix of trained eyes, AI imaging, and money-back guarantees — a $32.47 billion market's whole business model rests on getting this right.

Financials disclosed ahead of Shein's planned Hong Kong listing showed US net revenue down 14.3 percent to about $2 billion in the first quarter of 2026 and a $99 million net loss, per Reuters — the clearest evidence yet that import duties changed the cheap-clothes math.

The instinct that a red sweater needs a specific blue, not just any blue, is not a matter of taste.

Hermès reported €8.2 billion of first-half 2026 revenue on July 29, up 6 percent at constant exchange rates with an operating margin near 41 percent, and the house's no-discount model is the lesson inside those numbers.