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How Aussie footwear brand Alias Mae stays on trend in a fast-moving market

Inside Retail

Fast forward 13 years and Kirkhope continues to design and work closely with overseas production facilities to ensure the brand remains true to its purpose of crafting distinctive, quality footwear at an accessible price point. We feel these stores represent Alias Mae perfectly, so no plans for DTC at this point.

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Exclusive Q&A: M.M. LaFleur Designs Boutiques to Promote ‘Individual Customer Discovery’

Retail TouchPoints

Katie Twidwell, VP of Operations at M.M. We weren’t sure what to expect from these locations but we began to think of them as billboards ; between the revenue they drove, the lift we saw in appointments at our nearby showroom and the increase in site traffic, they more than paid for themselves. LaFleur will host monthly events.

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Untuckit is Setting Sights on Expansion and Internal Visibility is Helping it Get There

Retail TouchPoints

The apparel retailer is expanding its brick-and-mortar footprint with plans to open at least 14 new stores in 2024, bringing its store count to nearly 100. Additionally, Untuckit has officially entered the wholesale market following a pilot program with Macy’s that began in November 2023. “We retail setting.

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Starboard Cruise Services Promotes Sherrie Day to Lead Merchandising Role

Retail TouchPoints

Starboard Cruise Services , the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton luxury retail-at-sea company, has promoted Sherrie Day to the role of Global Head of Merchandising. Day spent more than 18 years at Target where she led buying and merchandising in a number of senior roles. Day will report to Lisa Bauer, President and CEO of Starboard.

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Chico’s Forms Partnership to Speed Development of Technological Innovation

Retail TouchPoints

Chico’s FAS has entered a strategic partnership with solution provider fabric to improve its speed-to-market for initiatives designed to accelerate growth. In return, fabric will tap Chico’s expertise as an omnichannel boutique retailer to drive its own development and innovations. “We

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Meet Nakedvice, the brand founded by best friends in the Sportsgirl stockroom

Inside Retail

Despite a slight dip in 2020, the global apparel market is set to grow to about US$2 trillion by 2028, from US$1.79 Locally, women’s apparel represents the largest segment with an estimated market volume of US$11.86 billion; the men’s apparel market is about half of that, worth US$6.35 billion apparel industry in Australia.

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Building a bridal wear empire: Melange de Blanc’s Christina Wettstein

Inside Retail

To survive the shaky state of the market, Rachel Leonard, the current editorial director of The Bridal Council and former fashion director of Brides magazine, pointed out that wedding retailers had to get resourceful. According to Zion Market Research, the global bridal gowns market was estimated to be worth $44.2

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