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ThredUP Continues Anti-Fast Fashion Offensive with V-Day Campaign, adds Francesca’s to Resale Roster

Retail TouchPoints

ThredUP is teaming up with TikToker Nava Rose to launch the Dump Fast Fashion Shop, an online secondhand storefront to help consumers thrift for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Nava Rose models one of her styles for the Dump Fast Fashion shop on ThredUP. “I Together with ThredUP, I’m committed to ghosting fast fashion.

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How Shein is winning the fast-fashion war by putting consumers in charge

Inside Retail

With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein? Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Fast fashion, or making and selling cheap clothes with a short lifespan, is “highly unsustainable”, the Commission said in July. Hundreds of similar plants, along with investment in technology and market interventions will be needed to meet industry goals to recycle 2.5

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Toxic chemicals found in Shein products, breach EU regulations

Inside Retail

Products shipped cross-border by Chinese online fast-fashion giant Shein have been found to contain toxic chemicals at rates twice the level allowed under EU regulations, according to a report prepared by Greenpeace in Germany.

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Shein, Temu in fierce fight over US market for $10 dresses

Inside Retail

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein and its newer rival Temu are in a race to win shoppers’ attention for their inexpensive China-made goods. If Temu loses, Temu could be forced to curtail what so far has been a key marketing strategy. The battle between them is playing out not only on social media but also in a US court.

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Rags not riches: Ghana drowns in Western castoffs

Inside Retail

Last year’s must-have dress, yesterday’s flares and countless other Western castoffs are strangling the Global South, prompting calls for fast fashion to pay the price for rampant overproduction. “Many of these garments should have been disposed of there, yet they put them into bales and ship them here.

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Can anything take the Shein of China’s e-commerce titan?

Inside Retail

Following its rapid success, many competitors have emerged from China with hopes to take a slice of the e-commerce pie, with the likes of Alibaba and TikTok jumping into the fast fashion ring. Seeing Shein’s massive popularity on the app, TikTok owner ByteDance launched its own fast fashion platform, called Dmonstudio, in late 2021.