Line Review (Range Review)

Line review (noun) — the recurring cross-functional meeting at which a season’s range is walked as a whole and decided. Its defining feature is that it is a decision forum, not a status update: styles leave the room added, cut, or rebalanced.

“Line review” is the prevailing term in North America; “range review” is the same meeting in the UK and Europe. Neither denotes a single event — most teams hold several across a season, conventionally an early review to set direction, a mid review to test the range against the plan, and a final review to lock it.

The word is also used attributively for the state a range is in — a style is “line-review ready” when its image, category, colorways, and price tier are current enough to be judged.

Also called: range review, line adoption, range sign-off
Used by: Design, merchandising, and planning at minimum; sourcing for feasibility, finance or leadership for margin and sign-off.
Used during: Several times per season, from early range building to final lock before the buy.
Inputs: A current line board, option counts loaded against the line plan, and costing where margin is in scope.
Output: A locked range plus a record of what was cut and why, ready for the assortment and the buy.

In use

“Outerwear came into the line review eleven options heavy and left balanced against the plan.”