May We Have The Blog Roll, Please?

Due to popular demand (mostly from my editors) I am pleased to present the Fashion Inc. blog roll. Listed alphabetically, it includes everything from my daily must-reads (WWD, but subscription only) to my dip in, dip outs (Catwalk Queen, Fashionista), a couple by my friends who are in the business of fashion or design (Decades, Deezen, Variety's Stylephile), and others I found useful for something or other once upon a time and may again someday, I guess (The Business of Fashion). And two are there because people working for them were kind enough to post comments when I asked for suggestions (Fernmitchell and Toronto Fashion Incubator).

When I said there weren't any blogs about the business of fashion, I meant those that give the same sort of detailed financial analysis as the newsletters and alerts written by the luxury goods analysts. To give you an example of what I mean, I will quote an old report on Burberry by Redburn Partners' Lisa Rachal:

February was chilly across most of the US and same-store sales (SSS) results reflected that. But most of the high-end dept stores, Burberry's top wholesale customers, held up well. That, in addition to the strength of Burberry's outerwear business, give me added confidence that Burberry will deliver another quarter of solid Retail LFL growth for fiscal 4Q07 sales (to be reported 17th April). For me, this metric continues to be the single most important driver for long-term earnings growth at Burberry. And US dept store SSS are best indicator we have for current sales trends in Burberry's US retail stores (40% of the store base and growing). Not to mention US wholesale orders for the next collection (Autumn / Winter 2007). We will get an indication of the y-o-y increase for A/W '07 collection in April as well.

If there is a blog out there covering luxury and fashion for the financial set, please let me know.

I did not mean to say that there aren't any good blogs about the fashion business or about fashion in general because that would be stupid. Happy Surfing.