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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. Wone, who joined Vestiaire Collective in March 2020, said the ban underlines Vestiaire Collective’s founding mission – to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy.

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Report: Forever 21 Will Reestablish  Physical Presence in China With a New Store

Retail TouchPoints

The fast fashion retailer initially re-entered China for the third time in August 2021 through online platforms Vipshop and Pinduoduo. Cross-border commerce in general can be a tricky challenge to tackle, so check out Retail TouchPoints ’ 3 Cross-Border Ecommerce Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them webinar on June 22 at 2 p.m.

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

Retail TouchPoints

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. Founded in 2011, the marketplace first launched in the UK and then expanded to the U.S.

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At What Goes Around Comes Around, Store Designs Reflect Founders’ Passion for Luxury Vintage Resale

Retail TouchPoints

The business partners, who started as college friends, have weathered challenges including the rise of fast fashion, the advent of online consignment resale and major economic downturns, but now they’re enjoying the resurgence in love for preowned goods as the resale category grows. Not all Chanel is created equal ,” said Weisser.

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How UNIQLO Became on the Largest Clothing Retailers

Indigo 9 Digital

Technical clothing and classic designs all at affordable prices are some of the keys to UNIQLO’s success. This helped us to establish a position of having high-quality products at reasonable prices, which is the fundamental value behind our products. By 2011 UNIQLO had sold nearly 200 million HeatTech items globally.

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

Inside Retail

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers.

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Country Road unveils clothes made from offcuts in circular fashion push

Inside Retail

The innovative collection, called Towards Circularity, will be available online and in-store as of Monday, February 7, at a similar price point as the brand’s popular Heritage Sweat products made out of 100 per cent virgin materials. At Country Road, it’s no different, and that’s why we’re really embracing a more circular approach.

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