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As France weighs fast-fashion ban, is the circular economy the future of retail?

Inside Retail

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. With fast fashion off the table for many, shoppers – and retail brands – are getting creative like locally owned, fashion re-sell business, a new favourite of mine, Love it Longer, on leafy Rathdowne Street in Carlton North, Victoria.

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Vestiaire Collective’s fast-fashion ban: clever or counterproductive?

Inside Retail

Last November, international fashion resale platform Vestiare Collective shocked the apparel industry by banning the trade of ‘fast-fashion’ labels. Fast fashion has no value, and even less in resale. Dounia Wone, Vestiaire Collective’s chief impact officer.

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Etsy Enters Booming Resale Sector with $1.6B Acquisition of Depop

Retail TouchPoints

billion as it looks to extend its reach both in the apparel sector and with Gen Z consumers. Depop’s peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand fashion is the 10 th -most-visited shopping site among Gen Z consumers in the U.S., The site is primarily known for its vintage, streetwear and Y2K (late 1990s/early 2000s) fashion.

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How UNIQLO Became on the Largest Clothing Retailers

Indigo 9 Digital

Yanai built UNIQLO by studying the Gap, which became successful by selling private branded apparel. “In By 2011 UNIQLO had sold nearly 200 million HeatTech items globally. share of the Chinese apparel market, larger then any other brand. Don’t get caught calling UNIQLO fast fashion. In 2021 Uniqlo had a 1.4%

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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

A lot of brands have already decided that rental is going to comprise a big piece of the fashion and apparel industry in the coming years, just like 10 years ago, building an online offering was going to be core to the product strategy,” he said. Overall, 57 per cent agree that buying too many fashion items is bad for the environment.

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Country Road unveils clothes made from offcuts in circular fashion push

Inside Retail

Apparel chain Country Road has teamed up with its largest supplier to turn offcuts and faulty garments from its own production runs into new sweatshirts, sweatpants and t-shirts made out of 30 per cent recycled cotton fibres.

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