H.Lorenzo.”
The shift paid off as Siegel discovered that having the appropriate wholesale partners made all the difference in his brand. To reach a luxury consumer he had to offer a luxurious product.
“Luxury is a mindset. When you feel something that is high quality and you put it on, it elicits a great feeling inside of you and you don’t want to take it off. When I say ‘casual luxury,’ which is the brand’s name Kinetix Casual Luxury it’s clothes that are timeless,” Siegel said. “Casual is more relevant than ever, and we’ve been doing this a long time.”
TECHNOLOGY By Andrew Asch | Thursday, January 21, 2021
Social media has minted its own internet celebrities, but many entrepreneurs are trying to judge whether platforms such as
Instagram and
Facebook will make fortunes for retailers.
With the billions of people checking social media every day, these platforms should be natural candidates for shopping. In mid-2020, the platforms, both owned by Facebook Inc., the Menlo Park, Calif., technology conglomerate that earned more than $70 billion in 2019, introduced Instagram Shops and Facebook Shops. In the future, consumers will be able to pay for items through Facebook’s Messenger and Instagram Direct.
The timing to introduce the Shops feature could not be better. 2020 was the year that digital commerce skyrocketed. E-commerce sales increased 49 percent during the 2020 holiday season, according to a report from
Cost of COVID: Pandemic hits close to home for Black River Falls family It hurts when it hits home : Black River Falls family experiences severe illness and loss from COVID-19
January 17, 2021 6:30 PM Jordan Fremstad
Updated:
Things are closer than they appear. Small towns create this illusion.
Street lights align the streets in the heart of downtown Black River Falls.
“We knew it was series but it’s like we didn’t really see how it would affect us personally,” Margarita Hernandez said, a mother and resident of Black River Falls.
Hernandez and her family did not know the world’s pandemic existed right down the road. Her children keep her plenty busy.