Sandbridge News

WWD – PARIS — Rossignol wants to be about more than just skis and skiwear.The French brand has launched Rossignol Apparel, a new business unit dedicated to the group’s apparel branch, which

Fashion brands have been falling all over themselves to snatch a piece of the growing market for stylish athleticwear (aka athleisure), but it’s not as easy as just throwing a few leggings

BOF EXCLUSIVE – BoF can exclusively reveal that billion-dollar fashion ‘unicorn’ Farfetch will power e-commerce sites for brands with an ‘omnichannel out-of-the-box’ solution.

ADWEEK – When it comes to basic clothing items—the T-shirts and trousers that are the foundation of all our wardrobes—millennials continue to shun brick-and-mortar chains like Gap and J.Crew

FOOTWEAR NEWS – For the past decade, BackJoy has been offering people better ways to sit and sleep. Now, the Boulder, Colo.-based company, which is known for its SitSmart devices

WSJ – Macy’s, Target experiment with display-only approach to sales floor. Retailers have been stealing ideas from online rivals about how to run websites for years. Now they are borrowing

WWD – Robin Burns-McNeill is shifting gears. Having been an influential player in the beauty industry dating back to the 1983 launch of Calvin Klein’s Obsession, she and partner Sam Ghusson

LONDON, United Kingdom — Tommy Hilfiger has come a long way since setting up his first fashion business at the age of 18. With only $150 in his hand, Hilfiger opened his first store

WWD – PARIS — Get ready for the second coming of Karl Lagerfeld in America. The designer, whose New York-based Karl Lagerfeld contemporary label was discontinued after its fall 2006 debut

PRESS RELEASE – June 3rd 2015 New York– Derek Lam is pleased to announce the opening of its first shop in shop in Bergdorf Goodman. The space reflects a brand new retail design concept

INC. MAGAZINE; June 2015 Issue – It was 2 in the morning when Bayard Winthrop woke up and, “clear as a bell,” saw the solution to a business puzzle that had been giving him fits.

WWD – Bonobos’ sister brand Ayr will undergo its first significant wholesale expansion, entering Nordstrom this week. The vertical e-commerce company — an acronym for All Year Round

WWD – Athleta is aiming to boost its fashion cred with its first designer collaboration. The Gap Inc.-owned company is partnering with Derek Lam 10 Crosby, Lam’s contemporary collection

WWD: PARIS — Rossignol’s push into fashion is picking up speed. After a test run last season, the French skiwear specialist has launched its full-fledged urbanwear collection for winter

WSJ – Along with his partner and husband, Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann, fashion designer Derek Lam is expanding his eponymous label with revamped stores, new products and e-commerce

WWD – Three years after launching his diffusion line Derek Lam 10 Crosby, Lam today has opened the contemporary collection’s first stand-alone store in New York. Named for the company’s

WWD – BACKING BACKJOY: Sandbridge Capital’s empire is growing. The fashion-minded private equity firm — which last week took a stake in Rossignol and has investments in Derek Lam, Bonobos

Sandbridge Capital, a private equity firm focused on growth equity investments in consumer brands, has acquired a minority stake in BackJoy Orthotics, LLC. The investment will be used to

PRESS RELEASE – While the French iconic brand prepares to develop new opportunities in the textile sector, Sandbridge Consumer Fund I, L.P is taking a minority stake in the Rossignol Group.

WWD has learned that Sandbridge is set to take a minority stake in the company today with the investment firm’s managing partner David Fife chairing a new subsidiary that will focus on

WWD – DEREK LAM TARGETS JAPAN: Derek Lam International LLC has signed a distribution agreement with Itochu, which will have exclusive rights to the Derek Lam and Derek Lam 10 Crosby

WWD — Topshop jumps into midtown Manhattan’s retail fray at noon Wednesday when the London-based retailer opens a four-level flagship on Fifth Avenue and 49th Street. It will be Topshop’s

APPAREL NEWS – After grabbing headlines last year with opening a store at The Grove in Los Angeles, UK retailer Topshop is on the move again. On Oct. 30, it will open a 17,500-square-foot

RACKED.COM – Bucktown will welcome another active lifestyle apparel brand next year. Slated for early 2015, outdoor apparel line Stio will open its first Chicago store in the 1,470 square