The Brands Making Stores Useless

Your cheat-sheet to the year's biggest direct-to-consumer brands, and what they're good for. Last year, direct-to-consumer was an emerging buzzword used to describe brands that "cut out the middleman" in the retail world. Now, it's a uniform for people in the know: Warby Parker glasses, Everlane sweaters, Cuyana totes. The biggest retail trend of 2016 is what's making it possible for you to buy a leather jacket that would normally cost over $1,000 for just a few hundred dollars, or a cashmere sw...