Buzzy fashion stocks had a tough year. Matt Katz was featured in “Fashion Stocks Seek Redemption After Wall Street Fallout” in WWD about the road ahead.
Matt explains what the time ahead could look like for these retailers, “Darlings fall quickly and the first step’s a doozy. We’re in a period of uncertainty, and some would say it’s become more and more certain that there’s trouble ahead. Where there’s unfinished business, inefficiencies are going to get magnified in a period of slowdown.”
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