Dershaw & Co. · New York · Est. 2026

Intelligence for the business of desire.

What's actually selling in luxury, where the gaps are, and how brands show up where customers now shop. From 25 years on both sides of the buying desk.

Explore the List →  ·  Read Edition 01  ·  For brands: Share of Desire

138best-seller slots read in Edition 01
4top US retailers compared, every week
$300–750this week's white space in small leather goods
7 of 20top slots at one store were sponsored
The White Space · every Tuesday

Find the gap before your competitors do.

Four minutes to read, one opportunity to act on. Every edition ranks what's selling, names one gap in the market, and flags the “best sellers” that were bought.

Edition 01's white space

A small leather piece at $300–750.

Shoppers are buying phone holders, chain wallets and pouches hard. But 14 of the 29 slots for those pieces belong to one luxury house, all at $750 and up. Between $300 and $750, only three slots go to contemporary brands.

Luxury houseContemporaryContemporary, on markdown
The rotation
Tue Sep 29HandbagsOut now
Tue Oct 6ShoesBoots, pumps, flats
Tue Oct 13Ready-to-wearOuterwear, cocktail
Tue Oct 20AccessoriesJewelry, SLGs, eyewear

Each category returns every four weeks, so you see what climbed, what fell and what's new.

Channel Watch

Who paid to be a best seller

Seven of one store's top 20 were paid placements, including #1 and #3. A sponsored rank is a spend signal, not a demand signal. The List counts it at half weight.

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Share of Desire · for brands and retailers

Your customers moved. Did your brand?

Shoppers now discover luxury in places your store reports never see. Share of Desire shows how you appear in each of them, what to fix first, and the return on fixing it.

AI assistantsWhat ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say when someone asks for a brand like yours.
TikTokWhether your pieces are in the conversation, and who is driving it.
Live shoppingWhere your category sells live, and where you're missing.
RedditWhat real buyers say about your price, quality and service.
Retail mediaWhether your best-seller placements are earned or bought, and what they return.
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Case study · Polène

AI loves Polène. The pages AI reads don't.

Asked 20 shopper questions, AI named Polène from memory in 19. But when it searches, Polène appears on only 4 of the 12 pages AI cites most, and its own website was cited 0 times out of 180 sources.

Read the case study →
For partners

Reach the people who place the orders.

Andrew's LinkedIn audience today, the foundation The White Space is built on.

52%director level or above
43%in fashion, luxury goods or retail
24%founders, CEOs, presidents and owners
59%in New York, London, Paris, LA, Miami or Milan

LinkedIn audience analytics, September 2026.

Presenting partner

Channel Watch

One partner presents the weekly look at who paid to be a best seller. A natural home for retail-media and commerce companies.

Research

Co-branded studies

A deep read on one category or channel, published with your name on it and put in front of buyers and brand leaders.

Rooms

Briefings and roundtables

Small, senior sessions with the buyers, merchants and founders who read the edition every week.

No one can buy a spot on the List. Not partners, not brands, not retailers.

Andrew Dershaw

“For 25 years I stalked best-seller lists to understand what was driving the market. Now I publish what I see.”

Andrew Dershaw, founder

The founder

Both sides of the buying desk.

Every time luxury found a new way to sell, Andrew was early. Dershaw & Co. puts that view in public.

Buying floorBergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, couture and designer ready-to-wear
First onlineDesigner buyer at eLuxury, when luxury first went online
Wholesale15 years leading a luxury house's wholesale business across the top US department and specialty stores
MarketplacesLaunched a luxury house on Amazon's luxury storefront
New channelsLuxury retail at sea, digital accessories with Barnes & Noble, and sponsored product ads in retail media
EducationParsons School of Design, BBA in Design and Management
The method

Public data, a published method, no paid rankings.

  • Four retailers' public best-seller lists, read the same day each week. Rank, price and sponsored or sale tags recorded.
  • Every style tagged for shape, size, material and price, with colorways grouped as one style.
  • A weighted score: a #1 counts more than a #30, and sponsored slots count half.
  • Data and opinion, clearly labeled. The List is data. The calls and From the Desk are Andrew's read of it.
Next edition · Shoes · Tuesday, October 6

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