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Analysis: Why does Shein continue to escape scrutiny?

Inside Retail

The Chinese fast fashion giant may be one of the most downloaded fashion apps around the world, but it continues to maintain a low corporate profile. Ask any consumer to name a fast fashion retailer and they probably think of H&M, Zara or Gap. Fast fashion, but slow deliveries. Shein hauls.

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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.

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Shein hires ex-PLT buying director as first ever chief product officer

Retail Gazette

In her new role, she will also help the Chinese-based fashion giant, which employs 40 people in its London office, grow a Manchester-based team of around 15 staff by the start of next year. Dunne’s appointment comes as Shein’s UK business made a pre-tax profit of £12.2m

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Analysis: Esprit, the forgotten brand that lost its identity

Inside Retail

However, the birth of fast fashion and the rise of the millennials soon pushed Esprit out of the game – and the Hang Seng Index – in 2013, sparking a continuing downward spiral for the years to come. Down on the second, and main, floor is Esprit’s retail offering – the ‘Fashion Closet’.

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Short-Form Video and UGC are Reshaping the Realm of Influencer Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

TikTok and Instagram are volume platforms, they’re like the fast fashion of social media,” Dulay explained. Influencer marketing isn’t what it was in 2013 or 2014, where you gave someone a product and they sold it for you,” Dulay said. But don’t count YouTube out. Know what your goal is.

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Spring Fair looks ahead to 2025 following a buzzing show

A1 Retail

Spring Fair, the UK’s largest and most inspirational retail marketplace for Home, Gift and Fashion, closed on a high after four days of intensive buying, creativity and fun, and now looks ahead to its 75 th anniversary in 2025. I have enjoyed the adventure into fashion and being involved in whole process of design.”

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6 of the Best Ways to Retain Customers in Retail

Indigo 9 Digital

Many consumers say they want to buy sustainably sourced clothing but fast fashion retailers like Zara and H&M are among the largest clothing retailers in the world. People will say they want something but will spend their money in ways that contradict with what they say. Let’s take the sustainability movement.