This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the spring and fall fashion weeks. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When I moved to New York in ...

Right before the holiday shopping season truly pops off, sample sales blanket major cities in an array of discounted designer goods and long lines that snake around showrooms and pop-up rental spaces.

At 8 a.m. on a late-October Wednesday, a line stretched down four New York City blocks from the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street. It was two hours before The Row’s annual sample sale, hosted ...

The amount of noise The Row’s annual sample sale generated last weekend was perhaps antithetical to the brand’s ultimate quiet luxury status. But what else could be expected? The brand’s legions of ...