The fashion and resale markets generated considerable news and optimism for growth over the last year, driven by growing comfort with buying secondhand, Gen Z participation, sustainability concerns, and consumer reactions to announced tariffs. In luxury resale, especially handbags and watches, many observers have predicted that repeated retail price increases would send more buyers to the secondary market. In some cases, that premium has flipped entirely, with certain Hermès Birkin handbags...

Vinted, the peer-to-peer resale marketplace, announced in mid-November 2025 it would step up its business efforts in the United States. Since Vinted has been less known than competitors in the United States such as Poshmark and Mercari, it seems a timely opportunity to review the company’s key strategies, strategic advantages, and potential vulnerabilities as well as well as sharing my experience so far with selling to a buyer across the pond.   €8 billion valuation Vinted, a Vilnius,...

Lord & Taylor, the iconic retailer that was left a shell of its former self before closing its stores a few years ago, is once again back in business, operating as a purely online store under yet another new owner. This relaunch is distinguished by confusing merchandising and pricing strategies that attempt to blend a focus on resale with what appears to be an overall off-price approach for higher-end and luxury fashion and home goods.