
Why brands are pulling out of retail
Ragtrader recently did a feature on the And Now This featured brand Watson x Watson's experience with wholesale accounts. Liberty from Watson x Watson shares her decision on why they took the the decision to pull out of all wholesale channels to add more retails stores to their Military road flagship in Mosman and grow their online store. Liberty says, "The biggest challenge facing our business used to be cash flow but now with two Watson x Watson retail stores cash flow is n

LV x Supreme - who said retail is dead?
Ever since luxury brand Louis Vuitton announced their collaboration with skate icons Supreme, their was extreme anticipation about the launch of the collaboration. Image from Louis Vuitton website. The first global pop-up store opened on Gould street, Bondi Beach. Then was followed by Tokyo, LA and NYC. Image from Pedestrian.TV website. And the heady anticipation was real as customers cued up day and night from June 30 to July 13, 2017 to get their hands on the collaboration