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Behind the catwalk: how models are recruited and signed to exploitative contracts
Feb 13, 2024
What is being done to protect models and hold agencies accountable?
Inside Bethann Hardison's fight to progress and diversify the fashion industry
Feb 5, 2024
Model and agent Bethann Hardison has fought to overturn the culture of racism and discrimination that's pervaded much of the fashion world.
The problem of "sameness"
by
Ellen Rolfes
Jan 31, 2024
Why department stores struggle to retain relevancy.
Neiman Marcus was kinda culty — is that a bad thing?
by
Tony Wagner
Jan 22, 2024
“Cultish” author Amanda Montell on the way we talk about work and how it’s changed.
Testing out an AI-powered shopping assistant
by
Ellen Rolfes
Jan 16, 2024
Retailers experiment with generative AI chatbots.
“Sell, sell, sell”: How Neiman Marcus' flagship store catered to the superrich
by
Ellen Rolfes
Jan 8, 2024
We're watching "The Store" in January.
For public good, not for profit.
The nicer the car, the more likely the driver is to break the law
by
David Brancaccio
and Alex Schroeder
Dec 8, 2023
There's a whole body of research that draws a correlation between wealth and self-interested behavior. We take a closer look.
The unfairness of capitalism
by
Ellen Rolfes
Dec 4, 2023
We’re watching “Trading Places” in December.
How the Osage are fighting to protect their language from extinction
by
Ellen Rolfes
Nov 28, 2023
What may be less apparent after watching “Killers of the Flower Moon” is just how hard the Osage Nation has fought to protect and preserve its language.