Between the Lines | When Marketing Replaced Design | The End of Fashion by Teri Agins

In the 1980s, fashion designers were celebrities. Bill Blass dined with socialites. Calvin Klein's face was as recognizable as his jeans. The designer's name meant something — a creative vision made wearable. Then the business took over.

Teri Agins, the Wall Street Journal's fashion reporter for two decades, documented this transformation in real time. 'The End of Fashion' isn't nostalgia — it's a business autopsy of how an entire industry inverted its value proposition.

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Between the Lines | Why Luxury Lost Its Luster | Deluxe by Dana Thomas

There was a time when a Hermès bag meant a single craftsman, a single piece of leather, and six months of waiting. Then the covenant broke. Dana Thomas spent years tracing what happened when luxury went corporate.

In 'Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster,' she documents the hostile takeovers, the manufacturing migrations, the logo inflation, and the strategic decisions that transformed an artisan industry into a $350 billion machine. This episode breaks down her investigation — and connects it to the luxury sector correction we're seeing today.

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