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It’s Time to Confront the Exploitation Behind Ultra-Fast Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

After May 2, ultra-fast fashion will be slightly more expensive. For years, ultra-cheap, ultra-fast fashion has rewired where and how Americans shop. Led by Chinese-founded online retailers Shein and Temu, ultra-fast fashion has succeeded in part by driving prices for trendy clothes as low as possible.

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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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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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Asos ties exec pay to new environmental goals

Inside Retail

Online fashion retailer Asos set out plans to cut its environmental impact and improve worker rights on Thursday, tying its success in cutting waste and carbon levels to future management pay. Asos sells over 85,000 products in 200 markets.

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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. IR : Since launching the company back in 2010, what changes have you witnessed within the retail industry?

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

Inside Retail

The redesigned centre reopened in 2010 with Nordstrom and Bloomingdales as the new anchors. It even has two stores outside the US, one in Dubai Mall (opened 2010) and one in 360 Mall in Kuwait (opened 2017) both operating in a partnership between Macy’s and Al Tayer. The connectivity between mall and strip became virtually seamless.

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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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