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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Precise data on the growth of clothing waste is scarce but collection for recycling and reuse increased gradually in several European countries from around 2010, a 2021 EU report said. Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July.

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“Our mission is to make retail fair”: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham

Inside Retail

The UK-based online platform for independent and ethical brands Wolf & Badger opened its first bricks-and-mortar location in London in 2010, before adding stores in New York in 2017 and Los Angeles in 2022. GG: We increasingly see consumers looking to be more conscious in how they shop. Today, the US is its largest market.

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Is Korea’s Arte Museum the future of experiential retail?

Inside Retail

The mall originally opened as a conventional enclosed mall in 1980 but by the time Macerich bought it in 1999 it had lost its mojo, partly because of the declining popularity of its department store anchors and a related shift in consumer sentiment away from enclosed malls. The connectivity between mall and strip became virtually seamless.

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6 hugely popular fashion retailers that fell out of favour

Retail Gazette

Hollister’s present day campaigns are a far cry from 2010 But Hollister’s “good looking people only” attitude didn’t fit with growing calls for inclusivity across fashion, and as its core customer base grew up and moved away from the brand, it struggled to appeal to the new generation.

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Selfridges: Why the best department store in the world is up for sale

Inside Retail

Its investment in highly creative and constantly changing store concepts and brand collaborations has enabled it to buck the industry trend and drive foot traffic in an era of online shopping, helping it earn the title of Best Department Store in the World four times between 2010 and 2018 at the Global Department Store Summit.

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Gen Z grew up in a world of ugly fashion – no wonder they love their Crocs

Inside Retail

Time magazine included Crocs in their 2010 list of the 50 worst inventions. Ugly fashion The 21st century’s love of deliberately ugly fashion can be traced to 1996, with Miuccia Prada launching her “Bad Taste” collection. But they weren’t popular in all corners. And from the outset, even Crocs’ cofounders considered them ugly.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

He was the driving force behind the creation of Lovisa in 2010 and has since then grown the business to over 550 stores, operating across 20 countries, employing over 3,000 team members and with a market capitalisation of circa $2 billion,” said Blundy. Asos CEO, chairman step down. The e-commerce behemoth was fined a record $2.75