Get to Know ‘Wednesday’’s Mean Girl Joy Sunday, a Holiday Retail Recap, and More
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Get to Know ‘Wednesday’’s Mean Girl Joy Sunday, a Holiday Retail Recap, and More

Today, WWD has a recap of holiday revenue gains. Also, get a behind-the-scenes look at 'Wednesday' with the show's "mean girl" Joy?Sunday. Plus, see what's next for Longchamp and OTB.

Christmas Wrap: Stores See Moderate Gains, Questionable?Margins

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Holiday shopping in New York City on Dec. 21. LEXIE MORELAND/WWD

It wasn’t a blockbuster or a bust.

Retailers emerged from the?holiday?season with midsingle-digit revenue gains, questionable margins and leftover fall and holiday inventories. They now look forward to at least three weeks of intense clearance activity to shed the excess, generate early spring selling and make up for business lost during last week’s lethal “cyclone bomb” from Mother Nature.

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Get to Know ‘Wednesday’’s Mean Girl Joy?Sunday

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Sunday is one of the breakout new faces on Netflix's 'Wednesday,' starring as Bianca Barclay, the “mean girl” of Nevermore and an early nemesis of Wednesday’s. Playing a villain was exactly what drew Sunday to Bianca.?

“I really loved the fact that I was getting this audition to do this mean girl character. There are not really that many examples of Black mean girl characters and I thought it was an opportunity to really soften and expand on something I’m very familiar with to a lot of audiences,” Sunday explains. “Her being a siren is something I feel I can connect with very deeply because I find my power through words. And I related to Bianca feeling that could be a trap as well. Bianca was close to my heart from the start for those reasons.”

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Longchamp Taps Accessories Designer Stéphanie D’heygere for Capsule?Collection

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Fuchsia is one of the six colorways in the Longchamp x D’heygere capsule.

Should you take a backpack or will a belt bag do for the day? Thanks to the unfolding?collaboration?between?Longchamp?and Paris-based Belgian accessories designer Stéphanie D’heygere, a person won’t have to choose.

Riffing off a 2019 foldable poncho design she made for the French brand, D’heygere has expanded?Longchamp’s versatile Le Pliage tote into a six-item capsule collection suitable for urban dwellers come rain or shine.

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Renzo Rosso on How OTB Is Building a Major Luxury Children’s Wear?Operation

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The Brave Kid showroom in Milan. COURTESY OF BRAVE KID

Brave Kid, controlled by OTB, has been logging solid growth and is expected to report a 25 percent increase in sales as it expands its markets and brand portfolio.

Rosso underscored that Brave Kid interprets the creative vision of each brand’s designer and said he would like to add a children’s collection for?Jil Sander, which OTB bought last year.?“We are working on that, we’ve done some tests with cashmere [looks], we want to maintain the high range and I believe it will eventually happen,” said Rosso.

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